east london line

With able assistance from a jazz band and a troupe of Bollywood dancers, Boris Johnson arrived at Dalston Junction station this morning to officially open the East London line. Arriving on a train into the station, Boris mugged and gurned for the cameras in his …

Photo / suburbanslice 3pm update: We have it on reasonably good authority that the first East London line trains will be rolling out of Dalston and New Cross shortly after midday on Tuesday April 27th. London Reconnections is also reporting the same. Fingers crossed! Original …

Unemployment has fallen in the capital whilst surging elsewhere in the country. But we also have the biggest wealth divide in the land. Hospitals in the news: Andy Burnham doesn’t rule out A & E closures, whilst threats to Kingston are proving a hot election …

London Reconnections reports a delay in the reopening of the East London Line (which we should properly call the eastern sections of the London Overground…but there’s something of the linesman/referee’s assistant about that renaming). The tangerine transit had been expected to open tomorrow but will …

Photo / suburbanslice Trainspotting Talmud, London Reconnections is reporting that the new East London Line (or London Overground, as it’s now known) is likely to commence a limited service on Thursday, April 15th. According to the site, the “live testing operation” will see trains run …

This spring, the route formerly known as the East London line will make a bold return, now co-opted into the orange livery of London Overground, and extending past its original, curtailed route to the giddy northern heights of Dalston and the southern climes of Croydon. …

To mark the end of the EAST Festival, and as the East London Line prepares to re-open after two years, the London Transport Museum and the Brunel Museum offered about 2000 members of the public a unique opportunity to turn Brunel’s tunnel under the Thames …

The BBC has a speeded up (and edited) video of the first train to run on the extended East London Line between New Cross and Dalston. It takes 32 seconds to watch (presumably longer in real life) and, as our friends at Brockley Central point …

Brockley Central have alerted us to yet another East London Line replacement bus service being withdrawn. The bus that runs from New Cross to Canada Water is disappearing from our streets at the end of the month due to lack of demand. Again. How little …

Take your last look at Shoreditch: zone 2 / image by diamond geezer under a Creative Commons licence A couple of bits of transport news filtered out of south-east London in the last week or so: the proposed Victoria-Bellingham service has been scrapped in the …