HS2 to pay 300 million to other operators
HS2 is to pay £300 million (€359m) in compensation to train firms, and it will not go to customers. That is the headline revelation in a UK newspaper…
London’s Elizabeth Line is a victim of its own success
Before it became fashionable to berate expensive infrastructure projects, the nineteen billion pound (22 billion euro) Elizabeth Line, was an icon of British engineering achievement. The building of…
Celebrities and rail bosses were among hundreds trapped by downed wires in west London
It’s already entered folklore as the Great Paddington Dewiring. When a major terminal is paralysed, one of the world’s busiest airports has connections severed, a showpiece metro grinds…
Twenty-five years of Heathrow Express
The dedicated Heathrow Express operation, connecting west central London with the busy international hub airport, has just celebrated a quarter of a century of operation, and out-shopped a…
Paddington station closed on the busiest day ever in London
It was a very British disruption to a very British day. Of all the possible travel issues to arise on the day of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth,…