Recent content by Alex McKenna

The Avengers liked disused stations too, for various episodes..

The way things are going - electricity generation will be less and less reliant on burning fossils...

I've just been playing a couple of 8 inch 78s.. one on Edison Bell Radio label and the other on Broadcast. These little records were popular in the late 1920s and early 30s.

This new EV is cheapest yet...

Fuel cells? Don't make me laugh. Hydrogen as a fuel isn't clever, isn't green, isn't efficient and isn't safe. Hindenberg Disaster 1937. Nobody wants that stuff being transported and stored in their locality, and definitely not near their house.

About 60% of households DO have space for home charging, and the remaining 40% can either use top-up charging wherever they travel to (work, shops, parking spaces); or use lamp-post chargers or other solutions to charge from their house. Thousands of EV owners in that situation seem to cope...

The whole HS2 cock-up would make a fantastic comedy series, similar to The Thick of it, W1A 1AA and 2012 and Yes Minister..

Wasn't there a TV documentary about them installing the escalators at Canary Wharf? Have these been removed and replaced? It all looked like quite a performance.

What's happening with the Pudding Mill Lane portal? ARe trains going through now?

I can't see collectors fighting for rare examples of this boring, weak-looking stuff in 100 years time. Give me LT's Johnston typeface any day.

Exactly. Obviously the Met couldn't divert to the North, I meant to question the West-East location of the station. 1614334023 I realise it wouldn't be practical to divert the Met line Northwards, but was questioning the West-East location, and the puzzling choice of the Met's location, to the...

It is planned to connect the new HS2 station to Euston Square underground station, but it has always puzzled me why they didn’t place the Met station near the main line station itself. The track passes near Euston, indeed the East end of the Met’s platform is quite near, but there is no entrance...

The infrastructure is proving more than adequate, accoring to EV users in Britain. The more you look into EVs, the more they "tick all the boxes". Quite apart from being much better than filthy petrol cars in every way, you only have to get over the idea of "filling up" at a petrol station...

The new Tesla Gigafactory in China was producing cars within 12 months, from being a swampy field without any infrastructure at all. The Chinese system does seem to work wonders - but obviously a totalitarian state can simply trample over any opposition - even the twinset-and-pearls NIMBYs - if...

Not the old "rich businessmen" thing again :-( HS2 is about increasing local trains on the classic lines, by removing long distance express trains to HS2, which is basically a bypass line.