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) • ...

• UK Rail passenger numbers could almost double by 2050 (Infrastructure Intel) • Profits of UK’s private train-leasing firms treble in a year (Guardian) • New £2bn Edinburgh tram line to be put to ...

• 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 ...

• Photos from Bank station’s huge new platforms (IanVisits) • Elizabeth Line added to new London Tube Map (RailUK) • London hosts first eScooter race (Reuters) • Kyiv Metro seeks Europe’s help for ...

• Go-op: Britain’s first cooperative railway (The Guardian) • South Australia introduces special license for drivers of “Ultra High-Powered Vehicles” (CarScoops) • Who Owns the Streets? How Cars Took ...

With print copies now being prepped for dispatch to subscribers at LR Towers, London Reconnections Magazine Issue 4: Feeding the Monster is now available to purchase in our online store. This brings ...

Welcome to the London Reconnections site. Hopefully it’s relatively bug-free (we’ve done as much testing as we can), but if you have any problems, questions or suggestions we’d certainly like to hear ...

Last weekend saw a variety of buses displayed on Regent Street and an open day at Stockwell Bus Garage – both events staged as part of TfL’s “Year of the Bus.” A selection of photos … ...