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Rail Accident Report
Rail Accident Report Derailment of a passenger train at Ealing Broadway 2 March 2016 Report 24/2016 December 2016 This investigation was carried out in accordance with: l the Railway Safety Directive 2004/49/EC; l the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003; and l the Railways (Accident Investigation and Reporting) Regulations 2005. © Crown copyright 2016 You may re-use this document/publication (not including departmental or agency logos) free of charge in any format or medium. You must re-use it accurately and not in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and you must give the title of the source publication. Where we have identified any third party copyright material you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. This document/publication is also available at www.raib.gov.uk. Any enquiries about this publication should be sent to: RAIB Email: [email protected] The Wharf Telephone: 01332 253300 Stores Road Fax: 01332 253301 Derby UK Website: www.gov.uk/raib DE21 4BA This report is published by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, Department for Transport. Preface Preface The purpose of a Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) investigation is to improve railway safety by preventing future railway accidents or by mitigating their consequences. It is not the purpose of such an investigation to establish blame or liability. Accordingly, it is inappropriate that RAIB reports should be used to assign fault or blame, or determine liability, since neither the investigation nor the reporting process has been undertaken for that purpose. The RAIB’s findings are based on its own evaluation of the evidence that was available at the time of the investigation and are intended to explain what happened, and why, in a fair and unbiased manner. -
Abbey Mills Riverine Centre, West Ham, E15 in the London Borough of Newham Planning Application No
planning report PDU/2464a/01 7 November 2012 Abbey Mills Riverine Centre, West Ham, E15 in the London Borough of Newham planning application no. 12/00358/LTGOUT Strategic planning application stage 1 referral (new powers) Town & Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended); Greater London Authority Acts 1999 and 2007; Town & Country Planning (Mayor of London) Order 2008. The proposal Outline planning permission (with all matters reserved apart from layout), for the construction of a mosque and ancillary facilities including eight accommodation units for guests and imam, library, dining hall, multi-use game areas, tennis courts, sports pavilion, open space, access, parking and landscaping; together with continued use of the existing mosque and temporary use of the ancillary facilities as a mosque during the construction phase. The applicant The Trustees of the Anjuman-E-Islahul-Muslimeen of (London) UK Strategic issues The proposal raises issues in respect of the 2012 Games & their legacy, social infrastructure, town centres, urban design, inclusive design, transport, equal opportunities, sustainable development and the Blue Ribbon Network. Recommendation That Newham Council be advised that whilst elements of the proposal are acceptable, the application does not comply with the London Plan for the reasons set out in this report; but that the possible remedies set out in paragraph 145 of this report could address these deficiencies. Context 1 On the 27 September 2012, the Mayor of London received documents from Newham Council notifying him of a planning application of potential strategic importance to develop the above site for the above uses. Under the provisions of The Town & Country Planning (Mayor of London) Order 2008, the Mayor has until the 7 November 2012 to provide the Council with a statement setting out whether he considers that the application complies with the London Plan, and his reasons for taking that view. -
Homes Down the Track a Marathon and a Sprint For
Homes Down the Track A marathon and a sprint for TfL Housing Committee June 2017 Holding the Mayor to account and investigating issues that matter to Londoners Housing Committee Members Sian Berry AM Tony Devenish AM Green Conservative Andrew Boff AM Nicky Gavron AM Conservative Labour David Kurten AM Leonie Cooper AM UKIP Labour Tom Copley AM Labour The Housing Committee scrutinises the Mayor’s role and record in delivering the private, social and affordable homes London needs. Contact Lorraine Ford, Scrutiny Manager Email: [email protected] Contact: 020 7983 4394 Follow us: @LondonAssembly facebook.com/london.assembly Contents Foreword ........................................................................... 5 Summary ............................................................................ 7 Summary Recommendations ............................................. 9 1. Using public land for housing ................................... 11 2. Developing TfL’s land assets .................................... 16 3. Delivering TfL homes ............................................... 22 Appendix 1 – Indicative map of TfL’s London land assets 31 Appendix 2 – Current list of TfL sites identified for residential development .................................................. 32 Appendix 3 – TfL’s Property Partnership Framework membership ..................................................................... 33 Our approach ................................................................... 34 References ...................................................................... -
Programmes and Investment Committee
Programmes and Investment Committee Date: 8 March 2017 Item: Investment Programme Report – Quarter 3, 2016/17 This paper will be considered in public 1 Summary 1.1 The Investment Programme Report describes the progress and performance in Quarter 3, 2016/17 of a range of projects that will deliver world-class transport services to London. 1.2 Quarter 3, 2016/17 covers the months of October to December 2016. 2 Recommendation 2.1 The Committee is asked to note the report. List of appendices to this report: Appendix 1 – Investment Programme Report Quarter 3, 2016/17. List of Background Papers: None Contact Officers: Leon Daniels, Managing Director Surface Transport Mark Wild, Managing Director London Underground Number: 020 3054 0180 Email: [email protected] / [email protected] Transport for London investment programme report Quarter 3 2016/17 Contents About Transport for London (TfL) 4 Introduction 24 Buses Part of the Greater London Authority We work hard to make journeys easier family of organisations led by Mayor through effective use of technology and 6 Business at a glance 27 Rail of London Sadiq Khan, we are the data. We provide modern ways to pay integrated transport authority through Oyster and contactless payment responsible for delivering the Mayor’s cards and provide information in a wide 8 Key achievements 30 Roads strategy and commitments on transport. range of formats to help people move around London. As a core element in the Mayor’s overall 9 2016/17 Budget 39 Other operations plan for London, our purpose is to keep Real-time travel information is provided milestone performance London moving, working and growing, directly by us and through third party and to make life in our city better. -
Lillie Enclave” Fulham
Draft London Plan Consultation: ref. Chapter 7 Heritage - Neglect & Destruction February 2018 The “Lillie Enclave” Fulham Within a quarter mile radius of Lillie Bridge, by West Brompton station is A microcosm of the Industrial Revolution - A part of London’s forgotten heritage The enclave runs from Lillie Bridge along Lillie Road to North End Road and includes Empress (formerly Richmond) Place to the north and Seagrave Road, SW6 to the south. The roads were named by the Fulham Board of Works in 1867 Between the Grade 1 Listed Brompton Cemetery in RBKC and its Conservation area in Earl’s Court and the Grade 2 Listed Hermitage Cottages in H&F lies an astonishing industrial and vernacular area of heritage that English Heritage deems ripe for obliteration. See for example, COIL: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1439963. (Former HQ of Piccadilly Line) The area has significantly contributed to: o Rail and motor Transport o Building crafts o Engineering o Rail, automotive and aero industries o Brewing and distilling o Art o Sport, Trade exhibitions and mass entertainment o Health services o Green corridor © Lillie Road Residents Association, February1 2018 Draft London Plan Consultation: ref. Chapter 7 Heritage - Neglect & Destruction February 2018 Stanford’s 1864 Library map: The Lillie Enclave is south and west of point “47” © Lillie Road Residents Association, February2 2018 Draft London Plan Consultation: ref. Chapter 7 Heritage - Neglect & Destruction February 2018 Movers and Shakers Here are some of the people and companies who left their mark on just three streets laid out by Sir John Lillie in the old County of Middlesex on the border of Fulham and Kensington parishes Samuel Foote (1722-1777), Cornishman dramatist, actor, theatre manager lived in ‘The Hermitage’. -
How Understanding a Railway's Historic Evolution Can Guide Future
College of Engineering, School of Civil Engineering University of Birmingham Managing Technical and Operational Change: How understanding a railway’s historic evolution can guide future development: A London Underground case study. by Piers Connor Submitted as his PhD Thesis DATE: 15th February 2017 University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. Managing Technical & Operational Development PhD Thesis Abstract The argument for this thesis is that patterns of past engineering and operational development can be used to support the creation of a good, robust strategy for future development and that, in order to achieve this, a corporate understanding of the history of the engineering, operational and organisational changes in the business is essential for any evolving railway undertaking. It has been the objective of the author of this study to determine whether it is essential that the history and development of a railway undertaking be known and understood by its management and staff in order for the railway to function in an efficient manner and for it to be able to develop robust and appropriate improvement strategies in a cost-effective manner. -
Retro Underground: the Seventies to the Noughties – 3
RETRO UNDERGROUND: THE SEVENTIES TO THE NOUGHTIES – 3. OTHER EVENTS by Tony Morgan My earliest memories of the Underground are during the Second World War travelling from Kingsbury on the Bakerloo Line into London and sometimes on to Kent on the Southern Railway to visit relations. In 1968, after ten years of driving to North Acton, I started commuting in to Great Portland Street. While I was there the second section of the Victoria Line opened as far as Warren Street. One lunchtime I decided to have a quick trip on it. The 1967 Stock train came in to reverse back. The Train Operator was standing in the cab with his back to the direction of travel as the ATO stopped the train. Maybe this was being done to build confidence in the new control system. Travelling home one day from Great Portland Street I saw the latest LT Magazine on display in the ticket office. I then started buying it on a regular basis. The front cover of that first edition had a photograph of the C69 Stock about to be introduced on the Circle Line on it. From that magazine I found out about ‘The Last Drop’ event at Neasden Depot, on Sunday 6 June 1971 advertised, which celebrated the end of use of steam locomotives for engineers’ operations. There I joined the Society because of their Sales Stand. This was my first organised event. At this event all three remaining locomotives were in steam. L94 hauled a rake of engineers’ vehicles from the City and pulled into one of two Klondyke Sidings in Neasden depot. -
River Pinn to Breakspear Road
London West Midlands HS2 Hillingdon Traffic and Construction Impacts Contents Page number 1 Executive summary ................................................................................................. 1 2 Introduction ............................................................................................................ 2 2.1 General .................................................................................................................... 2 2.2 Traffic Flows ............................................................................................................ 3 2.3 Sustainable Placement ............................................................................................ 3 3 Options to be carried forward and to be considered by the Promoter for inclusion within contractual documentation ................................................................................. 5 3.1 Re-use of excavated material from Copthall Cutting to construct Harvil Road Embankments .................................................................................................................... 5 3.2 Construction of bridge structures instead of railway embankments – River Pinn to Breakspear Road ............................................................................................................ 9 3.3 Use of excavated material for interval embankment between HS2 and Chiltern Lines 19 3.4 Commence importation of material earlier in the programme ........................... 21 3.5 Retention of Railway ‘Up-Sidings’ at -
Underground News Index 2001
UNDERGROUND NEWS ISSN 0306-8617 INDEX 2001 Issues 469 - 480 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAY SOCIETY INDEX TO 2001 ISSUES OF UNDERGROUND NEWS Alstom. safety award for depots, 469 Angel, closed by defecfive escalators, 234, 236. 454, 457. 515 Page entries marked * are photographs original island platform, 335 visit to non-public areas, 509 Acacia Road, original name for St John's Wood, 484 Announcements, on-train, Access to the Undergmund, new edition published, 104 anomalies, 537 Accidents, collisions, Chesham branch, train and tree, 12.12.00, 90 inaccurate regarding Jubilee Line interchange, 123 Accidents, derailments, 'new" voice, 176 Ealing Common Depot, 30.12.00, 94 Anthrax, simulation exercises in 1950s/1960s, 582 Ealing Common Depot, 08.07.01, 413 Archival material, 151 Ealing Common Depot, 06.08.01, 454 Archives, Ealing Common Depot, 16.08.01, 455 document management flowchart, 401 Hammersmith Depot, 18.09.01, 515 storage and conservation, 397-401 Morden Depot, 19.09.01, 515 Amos Grove, Piccadilly Circus, Bakerioo crossover, 32 new staff footbridge, 313, 440 Ruislip Depot, 14.01.01, 139 SPAD, 141 Stratford Martlet Depot, 11.12.00, 89-90 Arsenal, Triangle sidings, 31.05.01, 330 original 'Gillespie Road' tiling revealed, 351* Upminster Depot, 15.12.00 renaming necessary?, 428 Accidents, fire, trackside, large number of, 253 Art-Tube 01. 565 Accidents, miscellaneous, ASLEF union, driver commended for rescue of dog, 530 claim that drivers have invalid safety licences, 164 Fatriop, 'bridge strike', lorry stuck under bridge, 17.05.01, 329 further strikes called off, 208 Northern Line train 'rolling back", LU report, 75-80 meeting with LUL at ACAS, 208 wartime, in stations used as air raid shelters, 578 strike threat for 29.03.01, 260 Accidents, personal, strike threat over pay, 531, 581. -
Step Free Tube Guide
How to plan a Tube 123456789 Chalfont & High Barnet Cockfosters Epping Step-free sample journey: A Watford C and DLR journey How to use this map Chesham Latimer Theydon Bois Sudbury Town to Borough B Totteridge & Whetstone Oakwood A Step-free eastbound only B 1 Check your starting and destination This map only shows stations where you can Debden A B Step-free eastbound only stations, plus any connections using the get between the platform and street step-free We have chosen a complex journey which Croxley Southgate B A A Woodside Park Loughton symbols shown in ‘How to use this map’. or change between lines step-free. We have includes all the symbols to show their Amersham Chorleywood Step-free C Then refer to the index overleaf for shown in a lighter shade all other Tube stations. meaning. southbound only B Stanmore Edgware Mill Hill East Arnos Grove Buckhurst Hill A Rickmansworth Moor Park B West Finchley A Stations where you can get between the Sudbury Town Step-free southbound only Roding additional details of access and Find on the map and check Harrow & platform and street step-free are marked with a Northwood A Burnt Oak Bounds Green Valley Chigwell connections at each station. You may the How to use this map section and West Ruislip Wealdstone Canons Park also wish to refer to the Sample journey coloured symbol and a letter. The colour and Index. As the Index shows you will have to Step-free Northwood Hills eastbound only Colindale A Finchley Central Wood Green box in the third column letter show the size of the step and gap Hillingdon Ruislip get on to the Piccadilly line eastbound Pinner A Grange Hill between the platform and the train, as follows: Ruislip Queensbury Woodford B B 2 Check that you can manage the step and platform (trains towards Acton Town) via A A A Manor A Kenton Hendon Central East Finchley Turnpike Lane Step North Harrow Hainault gap from the platform to the train, which Step Station Approach ( B step 153mm/gap Eastcote Seven Blackhorse can be up to 323mm (12.7 inches) for the The step between the platform to the train 107mm). -
London Transport Railways
London Transport Railways The following selection of images is of the stock displayed in the “Underground Centenary” exhibition held at Neasden Depot, which we visited on Saturday 25th May 1963...... Sadly and inexplicably the Metropolitan Railway F class 0-6-2T locomotive L52 featured here was scrapped soon afterwards, but most of the other items, or examples of them were preserved at the later London Transport Museum, on the Bluebell and Worth Valley Railways, and elsewhere. In 1963 and for about 10 years afterwards, there was still plenty of vintage interest to be seen out and about on the London Transport lines. The picture (right) shows a train of Metropolitan F stock at New Cross Gate, East London Line, on 17th August 1963...... and here is an old G stock motor car trailing a District line train out of Richmond station on a very wet and misty morning of 4th April 1964...... On that day we travelled extensively around the extremities of the system on a “Combined Rover” day ticket. At the former Great Eastern Railway station of Woodford, Essex we were surprised to find an “automatic” or “driverless” train trial in progress using one of the experimental units, on the Hainault Loop line. These were the first tests of the system later used on the new Victoria Line. Note the aerial on the front of the cab, and temporary wiring...... The weather did not improve as we ventured on to Epping, then to Ongar....... The latter still retaining its air of a country branch terminus despite the use of modern stock (right) A contrast between station architectures is seen at Cockfosters (below left), an iconic LT 1930s design, and High Barnet (right) almost unaltered from its origins as a Great Northern Railway branch terminus... -
A Vulnerability-Based Approach to Human-Mobility Reduction for Countering
A vulnerability-based approach to human-mobility reduction for countering COVID-19 transmission in London while considering local air quality Manu Sasidharan1*+, Ajit Singh2, 3*+, Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan4*, Ajith Kumar Parlikad1 1Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom 5 2School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom. 3Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom. 4Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, 10 Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom. *Correspondence to: [email protected] (M.S.); [email protected] (A.S.); [email protected] (M.E.T.) + Equal contribution 15 1 20 Abstract An ecologic analysis was conducted to explore the correlation between air pollution, and COVID- 19 cases and fatality rates in London. The analysis demonstrated a strong correlation (R2>0.7) between increment in air pollution and an increase in the risk of COVID-19 transmission within London boroughs. Particularly, strong correlations (R2>0.72) between the risk of COVID-19 25 fatality and nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter pollution concentrations were found. Although this study assumed the same level of air pollution across a particular London borough, it demonstrates the possibility to employ air pollution as an indicator to rapidly identify the city’s vulnerable regions. Such an approach can inform the decisions to suspend or reduce the operation of different public transport modes within a city. The methodology and learnings from 30 the study can thus aid in public transport’s response to COVID-19 outbreak by adopting different levels of human-mobility reduction strategies based on the vulnerability of a given region.