There is an article in the current issue of The Spectator by Andrew Gilligan, attacking a project to make Green Park station, an important London Underground interchange, wheelchair accessible or, in London Transport jargon, to provide ‘step-free’ access from the street to the platforms. Currently, very little of London’s rail network is wheelchair-accessible; there is […]
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American Greyhound buses to ply UK roads from Portsmouth to London | UK news | guardian.co.uk (also here) This shouldn’t really be any surprise since the First group operates bus services around the UK and Greyhound is just another of its brands, but they don’t have the reputation for being fast in the USA but […]
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Yesterday, the government decided to withdraw the franchise of National Express, a coach operator, for running long-distance trains on the East Coast Main Line, which despite its name, runs from London to the north-east, including most of Yorkshire, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Glasgow (most of its journey is nowhere near the east coast, much as the […]
Recently while in London, I’ve seen adverts for the new high-speed commuter trains to go from London to Kent, which run along the new Channel Tunnel link. That line runs out of St Pancras, a north London station, across east London and crossing the Thames by a tunnel out past the Dartford river crossing. The […]
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