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ThyssenKrupp seem also to be having another go at the concept, at slightly more modest speeds, at Toronto airport, Gijon and Shanghai. https://www.ft.com/content/25ba220a-59c3-11e4-9787-00144feab7de

Me too. That's the lift that turns itself into a train (well, railcar) when it gets to the bottom (and vice versa). I wonder whether the extra technical complexity is worth the small convenience to passengers of not having to get out of a lift and into a separate train.

That would certainly qualify as a public transport lift in my book as it charges a fare - and a pretty stiff one at that. I presume the £10 return charge is to deter the hoi polloi from cluttering up the grounds of the very posh hotel that owns it.

I think the prime example of escalators being considered as part of a public transport network is in Hong Kong with its Mid-Levels Escalator system. http://www.hongkongextras.com/_midlevels_escalators.html This is now apparently handling 55,000 passengers a day and operates a 'contraflow'...

Glad you got that sorted. Ticket office staff who are on the ball are often the easiest bet if you're handy for a station - though in my experience their level of knowledge varies hugely. I'd never get staff at any of our local south London stations to do a bike reservation as they take forever...

Not absolutely sure that they don't, tbh. I did a 'dry run' without actually paying for a ticket and it didn't seem to offer the bike reservation at any stage of the process. But it could be that it pops up after you've parted with your money, or something like that.

Probably not much help now, but the Redspottedhanky site does now allow you to make cycle reservations at the same time as booking your ticket and passenger reservation. Don't think the Trainline does though.

She will need a cycle reservation for both services and as you have already booked the tickets, you probably have no option but to either ring the customer services for the train company (Transpennine Express presumably). Their website says phone 0845 600 1674 Monday - Friday between 08:00 and...

I was told they were hoping to run it fortnightly initially (subject to traffic actually materialising) but that they hoped to go to weekly soon. CL

Almost certainly would have been delivered by road. Facilities to unstuff boxes at Ripple Lane being almost non-existent.

Just rereading your post, in answer to your question, there was no ship involved. The train to China simply used the rail facilities at the port, which although originally designed to handle boxes to and from ships, are I suspect currently somewhat under-employed.

Mainly, we were told, because Customs has a full presence at London Gateway port, which wouldn't be the case at Barking. Also, they said, because it has better security and all-round facilities and there is a big logistics park at Gateway, which might in future generate some traffic.

Interesting - I was at the official departure of the service at London Gateway and it left with two empty wagons at the rear (32 containers). But in the video all wagons have boxes on (34 in total). Judging by the light it must have been passing through south London round about 7pm-8pm and...

Sounds as if I was quite lucky then - it could have been my tickets that got caught in the chute...

I've just been to my local station (Purley, south London) to pick up some tickets ordered through Redspottedhanky.com. Grabbing the tickets from the tray of the machine, I found that as well as my own tickets (London/Liverpool, Crewe/London) there was a single Purley/Norwich, a Norwich/Purley...

Many years ago, in the mid-1980s, I flew from Toulouse to Mumbai on the delivery flight of an Air India Airbus. Can't get much newer than that. There were only about a dozen of us invited guests on the flight and we were allowed to sit in business class, but not first...

I remember in the 1960s and 70s some huge formations with the first-gen units. I recall seeing a DMU excursion leaving Llandudno Junction in the Chester direction with 10+ cars. And if you watch the opening credits of 'Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads' carefully, there's another large...

The trees seem to like it well enough...

The vast former marshalling yards at Feltham have reverted to nature; they're now thick with quite mature birch trees. Whether that's accidental or a deliberate return to nature I don't know. But there is an incongruous stack of concrete-sleepered track panels still lying around, decades after...

Any idea what this ultra-broad gauge track spotted by a friend of mine near the locks at Brentford might be? Part of a lock mechanism? A boat transport system? Just a decorative feature?