Sugary Sailing: Try A Cake And Cocktails Canal Cruise
EAT MORE CAKE.
Paddington
Art Installation For Paddington Crossrail Revealed
Stations to be graced by grand works of art.
Londonist Underground: A Wall Of Train Tickets
Impressive installation in Paddington station.
Rail Overcrowding Increase – Especially Into Paddington
First Great Western carry 16.6% more peak time passengers than their trains have capacity for.
Theatre Review: Tales Of The Harrow Road @ Soho Theatre
Tales of the Harrow Road started life as a series of workshops, finding out the stories behind the lives of Arabic and Bangladeshi women now living around around Paddington. Writer In-Sook Chappell and director Suzanne Gorman winkled out tales of love and loss, homesickness and …
Theft Causes Severe Disruption To Paddington Trains
Commuters struggled to get home last night after signal problems all but closed down the rail lines out of Paddington. The faults were caused by the theft of signal cabling from the West Drayton area (not an uncommon problem, it seems). Engineers worked through the …
Mayor 2012: It’s Johnson vs. Johnson
Image by violinconcertono3 Alan Johnson, fresh from announcing he won’t stand for Labour leader, is being touted as the party’s Mayoral candidate in 2012. The former Home Secretary’s bona fides are sound: born in Paddington and orphaned as a teen, he grew up in a …
Crossrail: Government Approves, But At What Cost?
Canary Wharf Crossrail station New Transport minister Philip Hammond wasted little time in addressing the future of Crossrail under the inchoate Torycrat administration, vowing that the project will be completed: “It’s happening, it’s being built, spades are in the ground… We are making sure that …
Downed Phone Exchange Makes Cash King
By suburbanslice We’ve already reported that a BT phone exchange at Paddington seems to have been attacked by two-fifths of The Planeteers yesterday (unfortunately not Ma-Ti). As well as affecting phone and internet services in North and West London (and beyond), here at Londonist Towers …
Fire In Paddington Cripples Phone Lines
Twitter is abuzz with news that a fire and flood in Paddington telephone exchange has knocked out land lines in large areas of North-West London. Lord’s cricket ground, near St John’s Wood, are among those affected and report that service could be disrupted for up …
Design For Paddington Crossrail Station Revealed
This canalside cube is the proposal for Paddington’s Crossrail station. Not as fun as the shark-inspired design at Canary Wharf, though perhaps better for it. The station will sit atop what is currently Paddington’s Hammersmith & City line concourse, which would be demolished to make …
