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Workmen at the Old Kent Road junction. Photograph by John Sturrock, courtesy of Transport for London

A Tour Of The East London Line Extension To Clapham Junction

We take a look at how work is progressing on the final section of London Overground’s orbital rail route.

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Join Us On A Pub Crawl Along The East London Line

We’re doing a pub crawl along the East London line this Saturday. Fancy coming along?

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A Tour Of The East London Line Extension To Highbury

Beneath the streets of Dalston, engineers are working to complete the Western Curve, a 350m tunnel that forms part of the East London line extension to Highbury & Islington. TfL invited us on a tour to see how things are progressing.

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CultureLine Asks: Which Is Better, North Or South London?

OK, it’s a slightly different confrontation, but we used to heart this game. It’s a tedious, banal question, which Time Out would doubtless still pursue every 10 issues if they weren’t so focused on chronicling every cupcake-smeared floorboard in every new East-end pop-up fancy dress …

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New Restaurant Review: The Compass

The Compass Invited to check out a new opening in Rotherhithe, we fell at the first hurdle of finding it. Put the postcode into your Google Maps, though, because it’s worth the effort. An impromptu tour of Rotherhithe’s backstreets later, we’d even go as far …

Swing bridge at Wapping

Rambling The East London Line

So the East London Line extension was finally here, after years of waiting, right here in Crystal Palace! At last we could visit our North London friends, mired in Dalston, labouring under the misapprehension that Crystal Palace lay somewhere vaguely between Calais and Morocco. We …

Surrey Street Market, by Royal Charter in 1276. King Edward I probably wasn't thinking of the KFC, though.

Introducing The East London Line: West Croydon

The East London Line opened its south-east section on 23rd May, inducting a whole new swathe of London into the world of roundels. Given that, for a lot of people, south-east London might as well be populated by dragons, we asked some locals to give …

The Norwood Brook, a tributary of the Wandle

Introducing The East London Line: Norwood Junction

The East London Line opened its south-east section on 23rd May, inducting a whole new swathe of London into the world of roundels. Given that, for a lot of people, south-east London might as well be populated by dragons, we asked some locals to give …

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Preview: Overgound Uncovered @ London Transport Museum

Just like us, the London Transport Museum is celebrating the opening of the East London Line – but where we went on a pub crawl and fell over, they’re putting on a new exhibition looking at life along the whole route. There’s three galleries: one, …

Headless statue, ominous skies / image by Martin Austwick

Introducing The East London Line: Crystal Palace

The East London Line opened its south-east section on 23rd May, inducting a whole new swathe of London into the world of roundels. Given that, for a lot of people, south-east London might as well be populated by dragons, we asked some locals to give …

The Bromley Millennium Rock / image by Brendan Dodds

Introducing The East London Line: Anerley

The East London Line opened its south-east section on 23rd May, inducting a whole new swathe of London into the world of roundels. Given that, for a lot of people, south-east London might as well be populated by dragons, we asked some locals to give …