Check out the latest updates from my new layout project. In this edition: backboards, retaining walls from Wills and ModelRailwaySolutions, 3rd rails from Peco and signals from TrainTech.
CAS Weekly 23/11/15
Image From Crossrail
Modelling
- Hornby release Black Friday deals.
- Oxford Adams Radial tank loco in OO now on sale.
- Warley National Model Railway show this weekend at the NEC.
- How about a Wooden London Underground set for the wee nippers this Christmas?
UK Rail
- London Underground offer unions new deal in night tube row.
- Merseyrail to run Boxing Day service for first time since, well, ever.
- TRAMTRAIN. The future is here. Or in Sheffield at least.
- Manchester is also enjoying a tram…
- …and Edinburgh and Birmingham eye up more trams.
- Virgin are to overhaul their East Coast fleet.
- …and ScotRail are doing the same with their Class 334’s.
- London Reconnections takes a look at Crossrail’s new rolling stock.
- You know how the revamped Birmingham New Street opened a few weeks back? Well now it’s getting opened properly.
- It turns out HS2 is going to be appalling value for money. Who knew?
- Wrong leaves causing damage to Greater Anglia services.
- Thameslink scores worst punctuality record in a decade.
- DRS have put two of their Class 47’s to bed.
- Did you know BR once trialled Doubled Decker trains in the UK? Naturally the prototype failed, but are plans afoot to bring the double decker train idea back?
- How stations need to be improved to help deaf people.
- Diamond Geezer goes visiting one of London’s least used stations…
- …and Geoff Marshall has been having a look at the abandoned Croxley Green Branch. Or abandoned for not much longer…
World Rail
- Room for expansion in Australia.
From The CAS Team
- The roundels have been going back up at Tottenham Court Road meaning it’s Crossrail transformation is nearly complete!
- Long Eaton’s lost curve.
Compiled by Edward Kendall & Andy Carter
100 Journeys: No 12
A very blurry photo of the shiny new roundals going back up at Tottenham Court Road. You can just about make out the vibrant colours of the original retained Eduardo Paolozzi 80’s mosaic which has been incorporated into the new station design.
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100 Journeys: No 11 (Moquette-Gate!)
Last week saw Londonist’s Geoff Marshall explain all 4 London landmarks in the Central/Northern and Jubilee Line moquette seat covers. (And Even though I always wrongly thought the 4th landmark was Canary Wharf, it was a great video).
Then, in what can only be described as “Moquette-Gate”, Timeout London, The Evening Standard and ITV London all shamelessly stole the story, with only Timeout later adding in a credit to the original.
https://twitter.com/geofftech/status/664601028625608704
Geoff then took to twitter to ask his follows to come up with plausible yet completely false tube facts that would bait the aforementioned media piggy-backers. Some of the replies are truly inspired. You can read the full range of responses by following the link to the tweet above, but Geoff went on to summarise the best ‘facts’ on The Londonist, my personal favourite being from one Thomas Preece…
…because sometimes, you know, even I question it’s existence…
Who knew a seat could cause so much controversy!
100 Journeys: No 10
Calling All Stations 