Boris Watch

Via the Railway Eye (and a local Kent paper I read earlier) comes a reminder that not everything off the Isle of Sheppey is a prime site for land reclamation:
The proposed airport is to be created on an artificial island in the Thames Estuary off the Isle of Sheppey, near the site of wrecked liberty [...]

I’m fed up with Boris transport vapourware after last night’s bus and airport marathon.  Here’s a real, shiny, new train for the London Overground lines, just rolled out (several months late, but hey) at Bombardier’s Derby plant.  Check the funky 70s style seating moquette and the extra-wide gangways.  It looks like production is in full [...]

Much fun in the tiny part of the world that thinks the whole bendy bus/Routemaster thing matters.  Read on if discussion of wheelbases and lower saloon capacities floats your boat, otherwise I recommend reading practically anything else written anywhere ever, up to and including phone directories and home improvement books.
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