Making Tracks For Crossrail At Custom House Station
The track laying is well under-way at Custom House station for Crossrail.
It certainly seems that there are signs of progress, all over the place.
Before GOBlin Electrification – Upper Holloway
I went to Upper Holloway station on my way to Waitrose.
It is not a grand station, being just two ramps and staircases from the Holloway Road to two more than adequate tidy platforms. It is not unlike Crouch Hill station.
At present there are roadworks outside, as the road bridge over the railway is being replaced. I suspect that this project will have to be completed before electrification through the station is started. Obviously, when the new bridge is finished it will have sufficient headroom for the overhead line equipment.
Upper Holloway isn’t an official interchange but as the station is in middle of a slope between Archway and Holloway Road stations, which eases walking in one direction, it can sometimes be a useful interchange.
But the station will need improvements to its step-free access.
Greeky Bum Time
The Sun can always be relied upon for a catchy headline.
Krakow – A City Of Maps, Clocks, Trams And Gluten Free Food
Krakow is well-known for its buildings, but I found some other things equally fascinating in a delightful city.
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- A Large Map With Seats
All of the maps, clocks, trams and excellent gluten-free food, made the city a real joy to explore and I would recommend the city to anybody.
To see all the posts for my Home Run From Krakow click here.
It’s All Happening In Todmorden On Sunday
Where I live in London a few years ago they opened a new rail service called the Overground and the transformation has been dramatic. Not least in the rise in passenger numbers, but also it seems in the drop on the number of unemployed youth hanging around on the street. Perhaps, now you can get to that job reliably, you have got a better and well-paid one?
I don’t know, as it’s many years since I went job hunting!
But this Sunday the Todmorden Curve opens to passengers as is reported in this piece in the Lancashire Telegraph. If nothing, the locals certainly seem excited!
You do have to wonder how many other short rail lines like this could be re-opened?
Emirates Air Line – 25th January 2015
I took these pictures today from the Emirates Air-Line.
It wasn’t very busy, but in some ways that is better, as you get a car to yourself.
An Alarmist Report About Crossrail
This article in the Evening Standard. entitled Commuters facing year of disruption due to Tottenham Court Road station works has an alarmist headline.
But seeing that the same station was closed to Northern Line trains and platforms at Bond Street and Embankment have all suffered lengthy closures, without millions of Londoners marching in front of City Hall, I don’t think many will bother and will use one of the many alternative routes. Most of the comments from readers of the article, say they’re not bothered.
In a few weeks, it is rumoured that the new entrance for Tottenham Court Road station will open.
So can we have some real journalism?
Only In Liverpool
I like this story of a grey seal that has been found in the middle of a field in St. Helens seventeen miles from the nearest coastline.
Liverpool is a city, where fun is never far from peoples’ minds.
As it contains a video of a man with a broom trying to move a large sea mammal, everyone in the city will be trying to write an appropriate joke.
When the story broke, someone high-up in Boots was on the radio and he suggested that some of their up-market trout pate would be good for the seal.
Energy Efficient Houses Linked To Asthma
I found this research on the Exeter University web site, after seeing a report in today’s Sunday Times.
Very Interesting!
Why Should Hackers Censor What I Watch At The Cinema?
As one of my friends was born in Korea, I was quite looking to seeing The Interview.
However, it now appears that Sony has cancelled all showings of the film in response to threats from hackers.
In response, I will not buy any more Sony products. Not that I have for a couple of years.
Surely, the film makers were only following the route of Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator.
Properly used humour is a vicious weapon and I’ve been wondering what Joan Rivers would have said of the cancellation.
I hope that Have I got News For You give the whole story comprehensive coverage.
I decide what I watch, not dictators, hackers or those with weird political views!
At least the film will soon be available on the Internet, as Sony’s Plastic Collander Of Security, will have let at least one complete copy escape.
The Anonymous Widower 