Weekend 596.0
Table 1: Top 20 most used stations in Great Britain, 2022-23 Station Entries/Exits Change from 2021-22 (% +) Liverpool Street 80,448,194 150 Paddington 59,182,926 148 Waterloo 57,789,780 40 London Bridge Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Transportation
You are here (and the feeling that it’s all a lot of oysters but no pearls)
It’s a grim post for a title but as the dust settles on the festive period realities start to preoccupy. It’s like the feeling you have late Sunday afternoon after Continue Reading →
Anchor chains, plane motors, and train whistles
Railfan, train buff, railway enthusiast, railway buff, trainspotter, or ferroequinologist? Watch ‘Railways for Ever’ (1970) by Sir John BetjemanVisit the National Railway Museum in YorkFind ‘Waterloo Station’ (1967) by Terence Continue Reading →
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
It was tough getting flights back to JFK from São Paulo because of visibility related to the Canadian wildfires so some quick re-routing had us in Washington DC and then Continue Reading →
Weekend 568.1
(1) NYC Subway Maps: Historical Maps (1a) Subway Art Card for the MTA by Visual Storyteller Feifei Ruan (1b) Commuter Rail Guide designed by Joan Charysyn (1975)
Weekend 567.0
(1) How to Play: Race the Rails the TfL Card Game (YouTube) (2) Ebbsfleet International to Stratford International / British Rail Class 395 Javelin (Train Sim World 3) (2a) Limestone Continue Reading →
Weekend 554.1
Settling, unpacking, and re-playing KH3. I’m a completionist and there’s one very (very) difficult trophy left. The Limestone Library is about 1/3 restored. I’ve pulled a couple of books from Continue Reading →
Weekend 539.0
(1) A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (The Catholic Thing) (2) UK rail union aims to shut network in 3 days of strikes (Reuters) “The Rail Delivery Group, which represents companies operating Continue Reading →
Weekend 535.0 (Waiting for the gift of sound and vision)
(1) TfL Launches Limited Edition Elizabeth Line Oyster Cards (Londonist) I tried to find one this AM ten days before the line opening. I tried Green Park on the Piccadilly, Continue Reading →
Weekend 533.0
I was in Portsmouth on Saturday for Pompey versus Gills. Portsmouth is owned by former Walt Disney chief executive Michael Eisner¹. Gillingham is in a League One relegation battle that Continue Reading →