Many of the posts over the last few months are from moments of a Winter Interail – Winterrail. I took advantage of last years half price offer and bought a full 3 months pass, but due to various commitments wasn’t able to go until late in the year.Here’s a short compilation of the few bits… Read More Winterrail
Innotrans, the world’s largest transport trade show took place again last week, At the Messe Berlin exhibition centre, for the first time since 2018. Usually held biannually, it was cancelled twice due to Covid.The 4 day event sees over 140,000 transport industry visitors from 140 countries, and almost 3000 trade stalls.Amongst those with a large… Read More New Transport For Wales Flirt trains & trams at Innotrans
Please share & sign my new petition on the Government petitions website to keep ticket offices open. The RDG letter sent recently states ticket offices will be “repurposed” & staff are to be “multi skilled” (which they are already!) This is seen as turning ticket offices into cafes/shops. Our station staff do far more than… Read More Keep ticket offices open!
The Glasgow Subway is getting a major upgrade over the next two years, with a fleet of 17 new trains. They are expected to be in service in 2023 as part of a £288m upgrade plan including platform edge doors, tunnel improvements and resignalling, and will be the first trains to operate in the UK… Read More New trains for the Clockwork Orange
How far can you get by rail across Europe in 1 to 5 hours? This is a very cool and useful tool. It shows you how far you can get by rail in 1-5 hours across Europe from large towns & cities. Certainly shows the big differences between countries and their provision of high speed… Read More Five hours on a train
After many years, trams are returning to the Belgian city of Liege. Since 1967, the only trams in the city have been residing in the Museum of Public Transport of Wallonia. Liege had the first electric tram in Belgium, which started operating in 1893, It quickly developed and by 1905 there were 4 lines that… Read More Trams are returning to Liege
The Welsh Government have just announced they won’t be resuming flights between Cardiff & Anglesey (Pre Covid they subsidised it) but are looking into improving public transport connections instead. There’s been pressure for some years to reopen the Carmarthen-Aberystwyth and Bangor-AfonWen lines to provide a Nouth -South Welsh route. Currently the Cardiff-Bangor rail route is… Read More A New North-South Welsh rail link
I’ve just spent a week in Antwerp, using trams & the docking bike system to get around The cycling & tram infrastructure is great (though there’s still too many cars!)But, unlike the UK, even at roadworks there’s cycle provision. And cycling with goods, moving shopping etc is just normal. Cargo bikes are a normal part… Read More Antwerp by bike and tram
The transport consultants Aecom have been appointed by Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council to carry out a study into the reopening of the Portadown to Armagh railway according to a report on Belfast Live This comes as part of the wider All Island Strategic Rail review, currently being discussed by the Northern Ireland… Read More The Portadown to Armagh railway
Well, not literally… But this is about aircraft tech inspired train experiments. With the announcement of Chinese scientists adding wings to high speed trains to improve performance, here’s a quick look at the history of aircraft tech being used on railways. Starting briefly with the George Bennie Railplane, a test track was built north of… Read More Flying trains
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