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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named London’s Elizabeth Line rail transport network as the winner of the 2024 Stirling Prize, the UK’s most prestigious architecture award. The judges lauded its remarkable engineering achievement a… Continue reading London’s “flawless” new train network wins UK’s top architecture prize
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named London’s Elizabeth Line rail transport network as the winner of the 2024 Stirling Prize, the UK’s most prestigious architecture award. The judges lauded its remarkable engineering achievement a… Continue reading London’s “flawless” new train network wins UK’s top architecture prize
Gold medal trick cyclist Dawid Godziek is no stranger to flying to twisty, hold-your-breath heights on his bike. But his latest ride, carried out atop a moving train, might be his most impressive accomplishment yet. And you can watch.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Watch BMX daredevil nail world-first moves on top of a moving train
The company that broke a Guinness World Record this year with its all-hydrogen train has just announced another world first. Stadler Rail has developed a fleet of train cars that can run on either hydrogen or battery power for branch rail services.Cont… Continue reading Hydrogen or battery? World-first train glides along on either
In February of this year, we reported on the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, and its phase one testing of a low-vacuum-tube hyperloop-style maglev ultra-high-speed (UHS) train. In initial 1.24-mile-long (2-km) tests, the T-Flight hit … Continue reading 621-mph maglev vacuum train “T-Flight” test successful
Hearing tell of a steering wheel-free Volkswagen bus reminds us of the original 2017 ID Buzz concept and the autonomous future it portended. The steering wheel-less Klv-20, however, doesn’t hail from the future, but from the past … 70 years ago, to b… Continue reading Classic splitty VW camper bus still ready for van touring … by rail
A hydrogen fuel-cell passenger train developed by Swiss rail vehicle maker Stadler Rail has achieved a new Guinness World Record, traveling for almost two days around the clock for a distance of 1,741.7 miles.Continue ReadingCategory: TransportTags: Hy… Continue reading Fuel-cell train travels more than 1,700 miles on one tank of hydrogen
While it’s always important to accommodate bicycle commuters, bike parking spots on trains can’t seat non-cyclists when not in use. An experimental setup currently being trialled in Switzerland, however, may soon change that.Continue ReadingCategory: U… Continue reading Train seating area folds back to take bikes as needed
This week in the Podcast, Elliot Williams is off at Chaos Communication Congress, hearing tales of incredible reverse engineering that got locomotives back up and running, while Al Williams is …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 250: Trains, RC Planes, and EEPROMS in Flames
The freight system in the United States is prone to disaster. This is why. Continue reading The Great American Train Wreck Isn’t Going Away