Waterway

Whatever happened to Brunel’s bridge?

The famous (since 2004) bridge was dismantled and taken to Portsmouth where it currently resides at Fort Cumberland in Eastney.…

The Coventry Canal #2

The Coventry Canal opened on this day in 1769, that’s 250 years ago. Its architect, James Brindley, worked on the…

The Coventry Canal

The Coventry Canal was one of the country’s earliest waterways to be opened following the success of the Bridgewater Canal.…

West India Dock Impounding Station

Does anyone ever wonder where all the docks around Canary Wharf get their water? The liquid stuff doesn’t grow on…

Good Hemp's boats

Over three weekends in August 2019 some of the ‘Go Boats’ on London’s canal system became Good Hemp Boats –…

The canals' duckweed war

Some years ago the then sibling charity Canal and River Trust had thought to themselves ‘the duckweed war is being…

Toddbrook Reservoir

The dam at Toddbrook. Source: Twitter By now most of the world will have read of the calamity at Toddbrook…

Woolwich Ferry problems!

The Woolwich Ferry did run a quite limited service at the start of this week. I discussed it very briefly…

The New River #2

The debate between the builders of the New River and the later, more famous waterways engineer, James Brindley, continues to…

Crossrail: Woolwich #3 [+ Ferry]

Double bonus! This is a update on Crossrail Woolwich – plus the Woolwich ferry! As some readers will know, the…

Crossrail: Its just been announced the line is expected to open between Paddington and Abbey Wood in the summer of 2021. There’s no mention of the Abbey Wood – Heathrow bit that was mentioned at the TfL / GLA committee meeting nor the other dates, described as ‘pessimistic’ were mentioned. Heathrow & Shenfield will be in May 2022. As I wrote, Mike Brown had warned those other dates/information wasn’t iron-cast. Standard.

@elizabethline services through central London expected to commence in summer 2021 – intensive operational testing of the railway will commence later this year#Crossrail press statement in full here: https://t.co/Whua0KTQAj pic.twitter.com/dpoqKcSpKL

— Crossrail Project (@Crossrail) January 10, 2020

Also today is the 157th anniversary of the Metropolitan Railway opening:

Happy anniversary to the Tube which officially opened to the public today in 1863! ✂️🎀 pic.twitter.com/t63iWSKMzQ

— Transport for London (@TfL) January 10, 2020

alondonblogger on Stages 1/2 CBTC up and running!: “Oh its everywhere! Even the Jubilee/Victoria which ideally should be entirely flat bottomed rail!” Jan 19, 18:26
mike durell on Stages 1/2 CBTC up and running!: “Suprised that there's still that awful bullhead rail at E R .” Jan 19, 16:43
CJ on Old tube station reveals itself!: “The old footbridge is lit as it’s both an area for the cleaners equipment and a storeroom. (On the picture…” Jan 19, 11:40
Westville13 on Whatever happened to Brunel’s bridge?: “Fascinated to see this as I was working at English Heritage at the time and visited the bridge with Steven…” Jan 17, 20:13
alondonblogger on Old tube station reveals itself!: “Probably lit to facilitate access to the substation (assume its accessed via the green door on the South Acton platform.)” Jan 12, 21:35
mike durell on Old tube station reveals itself!: “I noticed that the footbridge and stairs seem to be fully lit with flourescent lamps. Is there a reason for…” Jan 12, 21:19