coal drops

Coal Drops Yard: a critique

On: 28th October 2018

This week’s posts have invariably been about Coal Drops Yard (CDY) and yesterday’s report was one I enjoyed writing immensely, however it doesn’t belie the fact I still want to analyse the new development and discuss its pros and cons. I thought it would be prodigious to write an immediateRead More →

King's Cross Coal Drops

On: 21st December 2015

The news re go-ahead for the coal drops at the old King’s Cross goods yard seemed like a good time for me to dig out pics of the goods yard in early 2000’s just before major re-development began. The photos clearly show how the coal drops were once, and justRead More →

Wuppertal’s Schwebebahn is running again in test mode (Vohwinkel to Hammerstein) to prepare for a new operating system used by its Generation 15 monorail trains. The section from Hammerstein to Oberbarmen remains shut whilst investigations continue on the integrity of its infrastructure.
20/20 Railway: London’s premier new line gets £2.15 billion more with a hopeful opening date sometime in 2020 as the ‘Elizabeth Line.’ FinancialTimes.
Schwebebahn incident: 1) Video of damaged car, the fallen rail, interview with WSW staff etc: You Tube. 2) Video showing fallen power rail & attempts to remove it: You Tube.