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Everyone’s favourite means of getting from Cockfosters to Heathrow reached its centenary today. The Piccadilly Line celebrated 100 years of operation in an all-expenses spared orgy of hedonism: LU managing director Tim O’Toole was at Leicester Square station and presented staff with a birthday card …

Services resumed on the Waterloo and City line today after a clean-up operation finally cleared the dust in tunnels we mentioned yesterday. The maintenance firm Metronet had been grinding the rails in the two tunnels, and was surprised by the levels of residual dust after …

The Bakerloo celebrates its centenary today. After 40 years of ummming and ahhhring, the turd-brown line was finally opened on 10 March 1906. No word on whether the queen has sent a telegram. To celebrate the anniversary, a special plaque will be unveiled at Baker …

Londonist’s record at publishing end of year polls has been a little sketchy as of late, so we thought we’d redress the balance a little bit by giving you a sneak preview of Time Out’s Top 100 Movers & Shakers list of 2005 which is …

Sweaty people, on the Tube, in the rush hour. Or, as Dickens might have put it, ‘the noisome reekings of a harried banker’s malodorous pits, pressing inescapably against the recoiling countenance of his neighbour’. However you describe it, smelly people should be barred from using …

It’s like the old proverb says: “The only rich pensioner is a dead pensioner”. Ok, so that’s not a real saying, but it should be, especially now it’s been revealed that Transport for London have been “paying thousands of pounds to dead pensioners“. According to …

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 …