November 17, 2004
British Transport Films Collection DVD Volume One - Surely a must for any transport afficionado. It will be released just in time for Christmas.
- Disc 1 - On The Rails
- Blue Pullman (1960)
- Elizabethan Express (1954)
- Train Time (1952)
- Rail 150 (1975)
- Diesel Train Driver (1959)
- On Track for the 80's (1980)
- Cybernetica (1972)
- Disc 2 - Off The Rails
- Under the River (1959)
- Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955)
- This Year - London (1951)
- This is York (1953)
- The Great Highway (1966)
- A Day of One's Own (1955)
- John Betjeman Goes By Train (1962)
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September 29, 2004
P&O axes 1,200 jobs as ferry travel sails into past
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August 15, 2004
Trains less efficient than cars - yes, I know, it's old news
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June 14, 2004
Transport needs £252bn over 10 years - so says the CBI. Hmm, that's £25bn a year which is about what we spend on the state education system
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May 19, 2004
Transport mess dooms Britain's Olympic hopes - for once (and it is for once) I can actually be thankful that we have a decrepit transport system
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The Voluntary City: Restoring urban life in crisis times - transcript of part of
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March 01, 2004
New York worst for commuting - and Peter Gordon reckons this shows that SmartGrowth is a bad thing
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January 29, 2004
Just in case you missed it... - Britain's entire transport network has been completely stuffed up by a light dusting of snow. But who cares when the Hutton Report is out?
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January 28, 2004
London and South East England: planning disfigured metropolis - Wendell Cox examines London's transport and planning systems
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Collection of old transport photos - via comment from Jackie D at Brian's Culture Blog
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January 26, 2004
One third find public transport 'poor' - poll from YouGov
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January 13, 2004
A spanner in the works - the decline of British engineering...link
January 10, 2004
How would you design a transport system on a new planet? John Whitmore would like to hear from you...link
January 09, 2004
A fair deal for everyone - Conservative transport policy...link