Head over to Edward’s site for this fantastic collection of images from the final years of Nottingham Victoria:
Nottingham Victoria Station & It’s Demise
– Full Blog by Edward Kendal (RailwayManiac.com)
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Nottingham’s Lost Railways
Edward investigates the lost railway lines of his home town in Going, Going, Gone – Nottingham’s Railway Heritage
– Full Blog by Edward Kendal (RailwayManiac.com)
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CAS Weekly: 02/01/15
Image by Joel Goodman (Manchester Evening News)
UK Rail
- A tram delayed the New Year from starting in Manchester by 4 minutes. Watch the full shambles here.
- Cock-Ups-a-plenty this week as overrunning engineering works causes festive chaos on the East Coast Mainline…
- …Network Rail makes official apology and say their boss will not take a Christmas bonus.
- The festive improvement works at London Bridge went much more smoothly. Do you want to see timelapse footage of it? Of course you do.
- Fares have gone up 20% under The Coalition…
- …but at least train companies will inform you of the cheapest prices in new “code of practice.”
- Twitter user @bitoclass creates this Christmas version of the tube map….
- London Reconnections explore train frequencies on the tube’s Sub-Surface Lines.
- Tottenham Court Road Tube station will be partially closed for a year.
- YouTuber, cbalmer001 has decorated his bathroom to mimic a Leslie Green tube station.
- An Arriva Trains Wales service was allegedly so crowded, passengers rode in the drivers cab!
World Rail
- The Railway Gazette report that the CTA are going Contactless.
Image by Oxyman
Side Tracked: The Mist Beneath The Smoke
The London Underground carries over a billion passengers each year, but what happens after the commuters depart, the escalators are shut down and only a handful of staff are left to patrol the desolate stations?
Image by www.CGPGrey.com
Find out this Halloween weekend as John Mabey tells the story of real life accounts of unexplained phenomena on the worlds oldest underground railway in: The Mist Beneath The Smoke.
Friday October 31st and Saturday November 1st @ The Reading Rooms, Great Baddow, Chelmsford.
Side Tracked: Off The Map (Part1)
Much is being added to London’s Tube map at the moment. Recently we saw the addition of The Overground Network, in it’s distinctive ex-East London Line Orange, sprawling over the capital like a spider web. In the not to distant future we shall see The Overground’s continued expansion as Suburban routes, such as the Liverpool Street – Chingford Line, start to fall under TfL’s control. Further on still, and many graphic artists and TfL alike are currently beginning to speculate how Crossrail might appear on Harry Beck’s famous map.
So, The Tube Map – always adding, never shrinking?
Perhaps not… Continue reading
Calling All Stations 