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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 …

One of the commemorative tickets handed out to 10,000 passengers on the first day of the new service.

Alternative Pub Crawls: The East London Line Extension

Sunday, as you’re probably sick of reading by now, saw the opening of the new Overground link through south-east London. We decided to celebrate in the way we know best: with a pub crawl. Not along the WHOLE line, of course. We’re not superhuman. Instead, …

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Londonist ELL Pub Crawl Today: Come Say Hello

To celebrate the opening of the south-eastern section of the London Overground today, a few Londonistas will be embarking on a pub crawl along the heart of the route. If you’re in the area and fancy both pint and chinwag, you should be able to …

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East London Line: An Update

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 …

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Reopening of East London Line Delayed

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 …

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Video: Inside East London Line Carriages And Driver’s Cab

Following on from our recent photo tour of the East London Line, here are a couple of short videos taken onboard the Class 378 trains (or bendy-trains as we may soon be calling them). This clip shows the train pulling out of New Cross Gate …

The approach to Hoxton station

A Tour Of The New East London Line

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. …

Take your last look at Shoreditch: zone 2 / image by diamond geezer under a Creative Commons licence

Shoreditch Moves Into Zone 1

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 …