London Underground

The BBC reports that London Underground has placed vintage posters around the tube network to announce the arrival of Spring. The posters were selected form the archive of the London Transport Museum and were originally produced to “encourage Londoners to use the Tube as one …

We’re well used to seeing a variety of amusing badges (buttons for our American readers) displayed on our fellow tube passengers (usually on the bags of goth teenagers), but until now none of them have been officially sanctioned by London Underground. Now we learn that …

A new anti-terror campaign was launched across London today “to encourage the public to be vigilant and to contact police with any suspicions“. New posters should already be up showing an abandoned backpack with the warning: TWO WAYS TO FIND OUT IF IT’S SUSPICIOUS: CALL …

Plans have been announced to begin looking at the Tube running later on Friday and Saturday nights in a shock move where customer demand may actually be met. Of course, it’s not as simple as that because this results in opening later the next day …

Kings Cross station is to get a ‘hot cash injection’ of £400m in order to “help cut congestion” and “boost the Olympic bid”. Of course, work on a overhaul of the Northern Ticket Hall started back in 2004, but was halted due to rising costs …

Even while on holiday we can’t escape the pull of London. After a nice enough flight with Mr Branson’s airline we juggled our bags to the kerb of San Francisco International airport and waited for a taxi. Imagine our surprise when we were greeted by …

So you’re standing there on the Tube, seething with rage after having changed trains three times due to a Job-like trial of passenger action, faulty trains and general incompetence on the part of London Underground Limited, and having just suffered a twelve minute intra-tunnel endurance …

The Guardian this morning tells us something we didn’t know about the Circle line: “There is a group of activists that stages knit-ins on the London Underground, occupying a carriage and knitting around the Circle line.” This fantastic little nugget of knitting trivia comes from …

Londonist would like to say a very hearty (almost Brian Blessed-eque) “Thank You” to all our readers who nominated us for a 2005 Bloggie award. Thanks to you, Londonist has been short-listed for Best British or Irish blog. We would tell you who our competition …

Veronica Wadley, editor of the Evening Standard, has “lashed out” out at Mayor Ken through her diary column in the Spectator (you’ll need to be a subscriber to read it though). Fantastic! This is what we like: a little bit of verbal sparring between two …