Topic: Paddington

London’s Elizabeth Line is a victim of its own success

Before it became fashionable to berate expensive infrastructure projects, the nineteen billion pound (22 billion euro) Elizabeth Line, was an icon of British engineering achievement. The building of the line, including a massively complex tunnel...Read more

25-12-2023|13 comments|author: Simon Walton

Image of wires down drooped over GWR train at night

Celebrities and rail bosses were among hundreds trapped by downed wires in west London

It’s already entered folklore as the Great Paddington Dewiring. When a major terminal is paralysed, one of the world’s busiest airports has connections severed, a showpiece metro grinds to a halt, shoppers, celebrities and business...Read more

11-12-2023|2 comments|author: Simon Walton

25 Years anniversary vinyls being applied int eh workshop to a Heathrow Express train

Twenty-five years of Heathrow Express

The dedicated Heathrow Express operation, connecting west central London with the busy international hub airport, has just celebrated a quarter of a century of operation, and out-shopped a new livery into the bargain. There may...Read more

15-06-2023|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Paddington station closed on the busiest day ever in London

It was a very British disruption to a very British day. Of all the possible travel issues to arise on the day of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the sum of all fears was a...Read more

20-09-2022|Comment|author: Simon Walton