Saturday 16th November 2024 As the Office of Rail & Road is soon to announce updated numbers of passengers using every railway station in Britain for the year ended March 2024, this monthly blog series counting down the previous year's top ten busiest stations finally reaches number 1 - which, for the first time, is... Continue Reading →
Saturday 18th May 2024 It's a measure of the impact of the Elizabeth line on London's public transport that yet another station that sees purple trains calling has a place in the Top 10 chart of Britain's busiest railway stations. Stratford appears at sixth place having clocked up 44,136,784 passenger entries and exits in the... Continue Reading →
Thursday 7th December 2023 By the 1820s the River Thames at Rotherhithe was so congested it had become the M25 of its day. The nearest river crossing for merchants and citizens was London Bridge but that was over two miles away as well as being busy and expensive to use. It's said the river was... Continue Reading →
15th July 2023 It's a true 'rags to riches' story. What at one time were run down unloved, and in some cases unknown, obscure railway lines skirting around London's suburbs with ageing, unreliable rolling stock serving uncared for stations susceptible to vandalism and graffiti, have been transformed into an attractive cohesive "joined up" (literally) railway... Continue Reading →
Thursday 22nd December 2022 Four new unusual bus routes started running in north London this week. That’s the introductory paragraph I optimistically wrote as I left home yesterday morning to try them out. Spoiler alert: one never ran; one had such a long gap in service I gave up waiting; one was extensively disrupted by... Continue Reading →
Thursday 21st July 2022 As TfL advised “do not travel” due to the record breaking temperatures, Monday also saw the much anticipated 2.8 mile extension to the Overground from Barking to Barking Riverside open for business. It brings a 15 minute rail service taking a scheduled seven minutes to the huge 179-hectare brownfield site on... Continue Reading →
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