Correspondent and Friday Reads compiler for London Reconnections.

A few of us informally get together to meet up at the Crosse Keys pub located at 9 Gracechurch Street in the City of London on the second Tuesday of the month. Regulars, irregulars and first timers ...

In The Lost Art of Passenger Comfort & Good Design – Railway Interiors Part 1, we looked at individual components and functionalities of train interiors – from seats, layout, information displays, and ...

• London Overground could finally get individual line names (IanVisits) • The partly-abandoned Tooting, Merton & Wimbledon Railway (JagoHazzard) • Cars are no longer welcome in Heidelberg (NYTimes) • ...

• Crossrail starting final phase of trial operations ahead of opening (IanVisits) • HS2 archaeologists make big discovery (RailInsider) • Inside HS2’s Chiltern tunnel boring machines (JonnElledge) • ...

As anyone looking to properly understand London’s transport needs and network knows, context, background and best-practice are important. As readers might imagine, behind the scenes here at LR Towers ...

• Go-op: Britain’s first cooperative railway (The Guardian) • South Australia introduces special license for drivers of “Ultra High-Powered Vehicles” (CarScoops) • Who Owns the Streets? How Cars Took ...

In our previous article on the cancellation of London Underground’s World Class Capacity programme we looked at the reasons for its cancellation. Now it is time to look at exactly what has been ...

With the 20th of October fast approaching, rumours have begun to surface as to the likely ways in which Transport spending will be affected by the coming budget cuts. Already, some things have become ...

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Glasgow University’s Dr David Mahon has received £459,000 from UKRI’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to support the project, which aims to reduce the cost and environmental impact of ...