Images bring to life many London Reconnections pieces. We are lucky to have a band of chums willing to brave frostbite, heat stroke and going rusty to capture stuff on our behalf. Therefore our t...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2013/over-and-under-thameslink-and-crossrail-works-revisited/
Map courtesy of Network Rail In 2009, we described how Network Rail planned to debottleneck the ECML at Hitchin by building a flyover from the Down Slow to the Down Cambridge at Cambridge Junctio...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2013/switchin-at-hitchin-a-quick-update/
What happens when the parcel stops ticking? As our legislators’ thoughts turned towards tinsel, we saw again the traditional parliamentary game known as “When the music (parliamentary questio...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2013/when-the-ticking-has-to-stop-the-radlett-sfri/
Having enjoyed the fruits of the Crossrail’s aerial survey we now return to Docklands to watch the new railway appear in front of our eyes. Eschewing the chance to vegetate before his tinsel de...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2013/crossrail-begins-to-get-visible-part-2/
With the opening of the London Overground Service from Clapham Junction to Dalston Junction it is time to say goodbye to the South London Line. The line provided a direct link between the London ...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2012/the-end-of-an-era-on-the-south-london-line/
Some readers have spotted that we have not reported on the developing situation at Farringdon for a while. It's nice to know you noticed and care and we are sorry to have kept you waiting. The ge...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2012/intermission-the-angle-and-wangle-at-farringdon/
It starts most days about five in the morning, as planes begin their final approach to Heathrow. Almost immediately, a queue forms. “Red eye” flights arrive from North America that have taken...
Our chum, Greg Burns, writing in the Fulham Chronicle, draws our attention to a youtube video of Hammersmith and Fulham Council’s vision for Old Oak Common. Old Oak Common (the Starship version...
Not A London Cable Car Mockup (courtesy the Ronald Grant Archive) Today has seen the announcement that the London Cable Car has finally found its sponsor – Emirates Airline. Emirates will contr...
https://www.londonreconnections.com/2011/where-lame-ducks-dare-benchmarking-the-london-cable-car/
Peter Hendy’s Commissioner’s Report for September 2011 to the TfL Board demonstrates yet again the resilience and tenacity of the people who make London’s transport work. Comment from us wo...