Image / tompagenet PAYG is not even the end of today’s exciting transport news! Siemens, who are bidding to supply the trains on the Thameslink route between Bedford and Brighton, say they would implement the first ‘intellligent trains’ of their kind in Europe. The Desiro …
No Oyster Here. Photo By Annie Mole via the Londonist Flickr Pool The long promised extension of Oyster onto National Rail services, may be due on 2 January 2010: cue Boris tapping in at Clapham Junction photo-op. However, London Reconnections reports the changes include a …
Image by mattbuck4950 under a Creative Commons licence The fragile state of our railways is on show again, as the Thameslink route between Bedford and Brighton (with the loop through Wimbledon) suffers a third day of disruption after drivers started a work-to-rule over pay. Like …
The BBC has a speeded up (and edited) video of the first train to run on the extended East London Line between New Cross and Dalston. It takes 32 seconds to watch (presumably longer in real life) and, as our friends at Brockley Central point …
by Scarlet Thread Thursday update: Liverpool Street “A Ghost Town” A strike planned for tomorrow, Thursday 30th July, by members of the RMT and Aslef unions is likely to bring most National Express East Anglia services out of Liverpool Street to a halt, and lead …
Got Twitter on your phone? Here’s something useful you can do with it instead of trying to talk to Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross. As we mentioned earlier, First Capital Connect commuters who follow @FirstCC and provide a few details about their usual journeys will …
Image courtesy of nuttyxander via the Londonist Flickr pool At the time we threw our hands in the air and huffed a lot, and now a report confirms that the agencies supposed to deal with bad weather in London really didn’t have a clue what …
Break out the violins, lads and lasses, for the train operating companies have been told no, the government won’t do away with the 1% above inflation cap on regulated fares. With inflation dropping, we could easily have a fall in ticket prices next year and …
Image courtesy of bowbrick under a Creative Commons Attribution licence Are the Mayor’s extra transport police having an effect already? First Capital Connect are cutting ticket office hours at 28 stations including Alexandra Palace, Harringay, Hornsey, New Barnet, New Southgate and Oakleigh Park, while the …
Image by Redvers under theCreative Commons licence Oh frabjous day! After having been talked about for, oh, ever, the Standard says Boris is about to announce that Oyster cards and pay as you go will finally be arriving across the entire rail network by the …
If you’re a suburban rail commuter, then your miserably cramped journey might be made slightly happier by news of more transport police on London’s railways. The Mayor and TfL announced 50 more officers and new high visibility ‘hubs’ at Croydon, Bromley South, Stratford, Acton, Seven …
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