Stockholm Central Station is facing its biggest challenge since opening in 1871. Sweden’s largest transportation hub handles 230,000 people daily and 200 million journeys a year. Increasingly ...

The foundations for Britain’s newest high-speed railway station have been completed at Old Oak Common in London, marking a significant step forward for the HS2 project. The 850-metre-long underground ...

Climate change could be having significant effects below the Earth’s surface that are only just starting to receive the attention they warrant. Warnings about the possible consequences of climate ...

After long delays, the removable PV system will finally be tested on a western track next spring. Solar panels are set to be rolled out “like carpet” on railway tracks in Switzerland in a world-first.

Correspondent and Friday Reads compiler for London Reconnections.

A few of us informally get together to meet up at the Crosse Keys pub located at 9 Gracechurch Street in the City of London on the second Tuesday of the month. Regulars, irregulars and first timers ...

In The Lost Art of Passenger Comfort & Good Design – Railway Interiors Part 1, we looked at individual components and functionalities of train interiors – from seats, layout, information displays, and ...

• London Overground could finally get individual line names (IanVisits) • The partly-abandoned Tooting, Merton & Wimbledon Railway (JagoHazzard) • Cars are no longer welcome in Heidelberg (NYTimes) • ...

We haven’t examined the answers sent in yet. We will do so shortly. Meanwhile, here are the answers as we currently believe them to be. Of course, it is always possible with some questions that … ...

• Crossrail starting final phase of trial operations ahead of opening (IanVisits) • HS2 archaeologists make big discovery (RailInsider) • Inside HS2’s Chiltern tunnel boring machines (JonnElledge) • ...

As anyone looking to properly understand London’s transport needs and network knows, context, background and best-practice are important. As readers might imagine, behind the scenes here at LR Towers ...

• A megalopolis of engineering: the new Crossrail (Guardian) • SNCF to install solar panels on 1.1M m2 of station areas by 2030 (RailTech) • Vienna’s U2xU5 line cross will reshape the U-Bahn & ...