20-04-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Unbuilt London: The Battersea Bullet train

In the late 1980s, there were plans to turn the empty hulk of Battersea Power Station into a huge theme park, and it was to come with its own high-speed rail link – the Battersea Bullet. It wasn’t what you might think of as a high-speed rail link though, as trips would take just over three minutes, and it was a shuttle between Victoria station and Battersea Park station.
While the trains were standard British Rail, the idea was that they wouldn’t come with windows, and instead,
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