These are my links for December 4th 2012 through December 5th 2012:
- Victorian plans to encircle London with a Crystalline Railway – "Imagine if you will the Crystal Palace in all its glory – but rather than a single impressive building in Hyde Park, or later down in Sydenham bend your imagination to thoughts of the grandest of grand Victorian visions, and encircle the centre of our Metropolis with a vast crystal snake… While I call this a railway, and its primary function was to relieve the congestion of the roads, the railway was but a small part of the proposed structure which would have included shops, housing and a private road running alongside the railways."
- Lost Railway Schemes – the City Terminus Railway – "The elegant buildings however masked another reason for the railway – the “ethnic cleansing” of the poor, who over the past couple of decades had been forced out of the City to the 'City Without' by the increasing conversion of housing into warehouses and offices."
- How the first Underground Railway might have run under the West End of London – "In 1855, a plan was submitted to Parliament for what could have been the first Underground railway under London – with a route that would have pre-dated the eventual Central and Picadilly Lines by some 50 years.
"The London Railway Arcade was a sub-surface railway proposed by Mr Hawkshaw and was in fact two separate lines at the western side of Central London which then converged into a single railway line running towards the City."
- Victorian Railway Stations that Tried to Span the Thames – At Pimlico and Waterloo
- (404) http://t.co/O6C – RT @newscientist: #Heartbreak can have effects as physical as cuts and bruises. Understanding why could change your life …
- Short Sharp Science: Today on New Scientist: 4 December 2012 – Today @newscientist: automatic painting, magnetic highway, leech cocoon, greening Texas, sticks & stones and more >
- Short Sharp Science: Back-to-basics money shot shows a cent’s battle scars – The atoms of the global economy >
- sumit paul-choudhury (sumit)
: I’m not sure when this became s… – I'm not sure when this became something I need to remind myself about > - Twitter / paulwebster: Twitter reveals Pope to have … – ! @paulwebster: Twitter reveals the Pope to have unexpected similarities – eg @newscientist and @katyperry
- Gherkin To Appear In New Star Trek Film? | Londonist – KHAAAAAN etc RT @Londonist: New Star Trek poster features the Gherkin and a smashed up, futuristic London
- Could the London Overground Call at Brixton? « The Anonymous Widower – @gmehn You know it's going through Loughborough Jn. and Brixton, but not stopping, right? < understandable but a pity
- Untitled (http://london-underground.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/mapping-london-overground-extension.html) – Unduly excited about this MT @Anniemole: London Overground extension means a new "Circle Line". How will it be mapped?
- Untitled (http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/nov/30/dark-stores-feed-dotcom-shoppers) – "Dark stores" > < we already have dark skyscapers. Wonder how long before darkstuff is 90% of the city?