Are Battery Powered 379’s the future? Image by Mme1234

Modelling

• YouTube blogger IC82 celebrates his 5th Anniversary whilst LocoYard celebrate their 3rd.
• Japanese artist Akihiro Morohoshi has been building model railways into small household objects

UK Rail

• Bored of hearing about 2 weeks of mild delays at London Bridge? How about the train out of Victoria that’s NEVER been on-time!
• London Underground are getting a new power station…
• …whilst the DLR might get a new bridge.
• A look at the new Tottenham Court Road ticket hall and station entrance…
• …and an artist impression of what’s to come at Canary Wharf Crossrail.
• And lastly in London, it was recently ‘No Pants Day‘ on the Tube. All I can say is thankfully I wasn’t working on Monday.
• We’ve got battery powered cars so how about a battery powered Class 379?
• The BBC take a look at some of England’s best lost stations. Where was Broad Street? And Manchester Exchange? And Halifax North Bridge. I might be here a while…
• From lost buildings to restored rolling stock. More on the coach that carried Winston Churchill to his final resting place.

Self Promotion

• My Christmas day adventure on The Fallowfield Loop.
• Remember that derelict building I saw near Euston on the recent Northern Line Leslie Green walk? Well A View From The Mirror has found out what it was for.