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Punctuality more important than getting you to work, apparently.

What’s been happening around town this weekend.

Let’s see what else has been happening today around town.

Southeastern are handling London’s big events very differently… so they say.

The RMT are balloting staff members at Southeastern on possible strike action over job cuts and changes at Charing Cross and Victoria stations.

Southeastern Trains have yet again produced a bad weather communications policy that is magnificent in its scarcity, despite the huge outcry that greeted the snow debacle in January.

Image by James.D. from the Londonist Flickr pool No, no no no. We’ve only just stopped having flashbacks from January’s snow and there’s more on the way? The Met Office have issued warnings of heavy snow for London and the South East for tomorrow and …

An oil drum stuffed with wires and other highly realistic bomb paraphernalia caused problems near Deptford train station last week. A hawk-eyed passenger spotted the suspect barrel in a yard close to the station, and rightly alerted authorities. But, and you’ll have guessed this from …

Welcome aboard the Torchwood Express. There’s more of computer train than commuter train about this Southeastern vehicle, which pulled into London Bridge station on Monday night. According to Mike King, who sent us the photo: “Apart from all the computers, every carriage had 50 odd …

A new report from the London Assembly warns train companies not to get too carried away with cutting staff and capacity. London trains already carry on average 3.5% more passengers than they should (up to 40% more at peak times), and this recession and falling …