derailment

Over the years there have been many attempts to introduce the rather shy, furtive and, let’s face it, constantly tardy London Underground system to the shiny, brash and only occasionally unstable world of modern technology. Keeping track of the Tube’s many ups and downs would …

There are delays at Waterloo this morning following the ‘partial derailment’ at the station yesterday evening. The last two carriages of a South West Trains service from Dorking came off the tracks as it entered Platform 2 at the station at around 6:30pm. Thankfully the …

Some of you might recall that a few years ago the Central Line was suspended for almost three months, following a derailment at Chancery Lane. At that time, this meant that this Londonista’s daily commute often involved walking from Bank to Holborn, past St Paul’s …

BBC: An investigation is under way following a Tube train derailment on the Northern Line in north London. London Underground (LU) said the train ran into sidings near Archway just after 1100 BST on Friday in what they described as a “minor incident”. An LU …

The Waterloo & City line is to be closed for as long as five months from next April so that “urgent repair” work can be undertaken. “Travel hell” hardly begins to cover it; the odd little W&C line, known to its “fans” as “The Drain” …

Public Private Partnerships on the Tube have been slammed harder than passengers’ heads during a derailment, in a new parliamentary report. Politics.co.uk reports that far from improving things under the streets of London the PPP approach has resulted in an increase of incidents that “could …