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The West London Line has proved to be immensely popular since its reopening as an inner-suburban orbital route, however to me the planners have totally missed a goldmine of opportunities that have been staring at them in the face. Starting from South to North, here are the ones I’ve noticed...

We often talk about building new lines from scratch. But what we seem to have forgotten is that there’s no reason why you can’t do so out of track that already exists. Here are three routes that I can think of, two of which are orbital: Wimbledon-Heathrow via the Wimbledon branch of the...

Sure, we have Crossrail and the DLR, but the fact is that we haven’t built an actual new underground line since 1979. Now, you might say that ‘oh, we’re a developed country, we’ve done all that, but the fact is that London’s population is rapidly rising and there are still corridors and areas...

It’s been two decades since rail privatisation in the UK, but unlike in the golden age of private railways before 1914, I don’t see any competition, any train company startups. There are only a handful of open access operators, and whenever a new line is to be opened, it’s always the...

Imagine an elevator in an apartment block, like the one in my own appartment block, here in Nanjing, China. Now, if you were to study the journeys made by each person using that elevator, you will pretty soon notice that nearly all the journeys either begin or end on the ground floor...

As you will all know, the West London Line is currently used by London Overground trains from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction, and Southern services from Miltern Keynes to East Croydon. But is there an opportunity being missed involving the line's connection to Waterloo via the South...

Here is a new blog article that has just appeared, arguing that there should be a direct London-Aberystwyth service, and that it should run on Aberystwyth-Carmarthen line if and when it opens: https://politicsbyrebuttal.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/london-aberystwyth-direct-trains-should.html What...