2012-04-10
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Places & Things - The Bird House:
Towards the end of the Victorian era, many of London’s city dwellers took advantage of new railway lines and became commuters by moving to burgeoning suburbs like East Ham, Ealing, Harringay or Hither Green. Landscapes of brick terraces, with their bay windows and back gardens, dominated architectural output around the turn of the 20th century. However, while these suburbs still constitute a significant proportion of London’s domestic architecture, they are largely ignored when we talk and think about housing in London today.
2012-03-20
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The current background of Network Rail’s Twitter page, showing the West Coast Main Line looking towards central London, as also used in their advertising. Photograph: Morgan Silk.
2012-03-16
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Martin Wainwright in The Guardian: Manchester’s tube train that never was (h/t Chris; thanks).
Just another 1960s utopian scheme that hit the buffers of the early 1970s financial crisis. Ah well.
2011-01-11
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London Underground tube map, c1911 (by Mikey Ashworth, via diamond geezer).
One of the most interesting things, to me, is how much of the central network was in place by this point. The only tube lines built inside the Circle are the Victoria and Jubilee lines.
It’s definitely worth clicking through for the uploader’s notes on the style and the inclusion of the Brighton Railway’s Elevated Electric services, and for his set of Underground maps, including MacDonald’s Gills minimal/calligraphic sketch map.
2010-12-21
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Train Trip, Sweden, the National Geographic Photo of the Day:
This picture was taken in northern Sweden during a train trip to Abisko. My idea was to capture the warm train going through chilly Lapland’s landscape.
2010-12-13
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High Speed 1 during construction, used as an illustration for the press release announcing the Crossrail tunnel contracts.
2010-11-10
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2010-03-25
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A plan of Liège-Guillemins station, by Santiago Calatrava, at {Voice Maker}SPACE.
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Way up, way down.
I have no idea where this is. Nor does TinEye, surprisingly.
I could be wrong but I reckon it’s Santiago Calatrava’s Liège-Guillemins Station on the Brussels-Köln high speed rail line.
(Not a bad picture, either; a tiny bit blurry but then it is night. I could do without the border though.)
