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Jubilee Line To Partly Close Due To ‘Acid Ingress’

30 days closure spread over two years.

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Extra, Extra

Rounding up today’s news.

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Review: Mean Between Times @ Greenwich And Docklands International Festival

A truly delightful performance on the Charing Cross-Greenwich train.

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Man Dies After Being Hit By Train At Hither Green

Passengers add to delays by walking on tracks.

Et voilà! The bridge was lowered in position on the afternoon of Day 3

In Pictures: New Thameslink Railway Bridge

A 72-metre-long, 1200 tonne railway bridge now graces Borough High Street.

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Doors Open On Moving Tube Train

TfL has launched an investigation after the doors of a Victoria line train apparently opened while it was travelling between stations.

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Metropolitan Line Train Taken Away For Scrapping

Photographer Julian Gajewski sent us this picture of a forlorn-looking Metropolitan line train being taken away by truck at the end of its working life.

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Mayor Talks Up “Driverless” Tube Trains

Boris Johnson has again invoked the prospect of driverless Tube trains as a way of permanently beating the strikes.

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Train Staff Not Allowed To Give Medical Help To Passengers

Photo by crashcalloway from the Londonist Flickr pool If you’re feeling at all unwell don’t travel by First Capital Connect, or make sure there’s a qualified first aider in your carriage. After a man collapsed at St Alban’s station a few weeks ago and FCC …

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Preview: Moquette For London @ Transport Museum

As a prelude to the introduction of one moquette to rule them all London Transport Museum hosts an evening about the history and future of its iconic seat covering fabric this week. The designers of the new textile will talk and there is a guided …

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Runaway Train On The Northern Line This Morning

Photo / cakehole Transport for London are investigating after a driverless engineering train was allowed to run for almost four miles early this morning. The train became uncoupled as it was towed along between Archway and Warren Street stations, at around 6.40am, and trundled along …