Image from the BBC & London Green Party

Modelling

• A pre-production example of the DJ Models’ J94 has been published by eHattons.

UK Rail

• Yet more disruption at one of the capital’s main termini. This time it’s London Bridge…
• …TheMurkyDepths also looks at how Southeastern services are about to undergo hidden changes!
• Former Transport Secretary calls for TfL to absorb all of South London’s rail network into The Overground brand.
• The Department for Transport release a report covering the capacity and demand figures for the East and West Coast Mainlines.
• A disused siding could be turned into an elevated parkway in Peckham.
• Embankment, Charing Cross, Strand, Trafalgar Square: All used at one point to describe the same station. Geoff Marshall from The Londonist helps to unravel this mess with a helpful video…
• …They also tell you when and where your best chances of a guaranteed seat on the tube.
• Like Modernist Buildings? Check out this wonderful blog from Daniel Wright on some of London Transport’s finest.
• …And The National Railway Museum remembers Winston Churchill’s last journey.

World Rail

• Rail Freight enjoys huge growth in the U.S. in 2014…
• …and in California construction of a new high-speed line begins.

(Featured Image by MattBuck).