Tag: elizabeth line
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Cab ride on Crossrail (aka TfL Rail/Elizabeth line) in December 2019 which was filmed and uploaded to Youtube – hence this is a 5th anniversary post of sorts! The event in question was the first day TfL Rail services to Reading officially started. In a report written on that full Class 345 round trip it…
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Ship impact protection? What the heck is that? Well its a means of protecting something from being hit by ships. You know ships can be pretty nasty if they collide with something, say another boat, a quay or even buildings sited alongside water. Thus its said that Canary Wharf is the only Elizabeth Line station…
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Its seventy years since the Liverpool Street – Shenfield electrification first began. The scheme was officially opened on 20th September 1949 and cost £8 million. This scheme was tied in a fair bit with the Manchester Sheffield Wath scheme and indeed the electric locomotives for that scheme were first tested on the Liverpool Street lines.…
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Again & again it’s been said Crossrail should have a City Airport station. This week the news is City Airport’s in discussion with TfL on it. Crossrail actually passes through the site of the old Silvertown station on the North London Line and this was once City Airport’s official station! The argument for a new…
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