CAS Weekly 14/06/15

June 14, 2015August 23, 2016Andy Carter 1 Comment

First Train on The Borders Railway by Edinburgh News

Modelling

Production samples of Graham Farish N Class.
Hornby scoop 3 Model of the Year awards.

UK Rail

BREAKING: London Bridge is still a cock-up…
Network Rail have been very naughty.
Transpennine Electrification project is indefinitely suspended.
Euston HS2 plans revised.
Huge drama at the Bridgnorth Cliff Railway.
Southern Steam Summer at Swanage Railway.
If you’ve been waiting for a train on the Borders Railway, it’s finally arrived after 60 years.
Do you want to take a drone journey through Crossrail? (The answer is yes).
Or how about a Ghost Train to West Ruislip?
Is your office in a tube train (replica)?
There might be life in the old C-Stock units yet…
…and did you know there’s two Covent Gardens?…

World Rail

Is the Darjeeling Tea Train running out of puff?

From The CAS Team

A historical article on railway breakdown trains from http://www.RailwayManiac.com
CAS makes both Time Out London and Crossrail Comms as the Pringles article re-surfaces again!

CAS Weekly 16/01/15

January 16, 2015August 23, 2016Andy Carter 1 Comment

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.

Exploration: Leslie Green Stations Of The Northern Line

GalleryJanuary 3, 2015August 22, 2016Andy Carter 2 Comments

The London Underground maybe a functional and sometimes frustrating piece of infrastructure for some, but for others it’s an architectural gem known the world over. Being over 150 years old, and made up of various former Victorian companies, the Tube has some of the most varied and interesting architectural designs of any mass transit system. None more prominent than the stations of Leslie Green.

In 1903 Leslie Green (born 1875) was appointed chief architect of the newly formed Underground Electric Railways Company of London who were busy in the process of building 3 new lines through the capital: Great Northern, Picadilly & Brompton Railway (Piccadilly Line), The Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (Bakerloo Line) and the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (Northern Line – Charing Cross Branch). Leslie Green was tasked with designing the stations for all 3 lines.

Green designed the stations in a bold uniform ‘Arts & Crafts’ style so that they would be instantly recognisable for the UERL’s new customers. Each station was constructed around a steel two story frame, with ox-blood red tiled façades with large semi-circular windows above wide entrance/exit gates. This December (2014) I went to take a closer look at some of the examples surviving on today’s Northern Line.

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Side Tracked: The Euston Arch – Something that didn’t just happen in London

May 2, 2014October 8, 2014Andy Carter Leave a comment

The 1960’s brought about much destruction of buildings of architectural merit in the name of ‘progress.’ The UK government and town planners of the time are often accused of being guilty of this crime, particularly with train stations and former railway owned buildings. Sadly it was just as common Stateside, with Penn Station in NYC getting the Euston treatment in 1963, with similar plans for the stunning Grand Central..

A Point of View: Grand Central, the world’s loveliest station, from the BBC.

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