trains

Fares and charges increase for many London commuters as the capital returns to work.

This ethereal sketch is an artist’s impression of how the all-new concourse at London Bridge station will look.

The runaway engineering train that careened along the Northern line in the early hours of August 13th this year was the result of faulty equipment and basic human error, an internal report by TfL has concluded.

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

If you’ve got no place to go, today is a textbook winter wonderland in London. If, like most people, you’ve got to travel in for work, well the going is still tough. Let us know how you got on…

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.

Transport secretary Philip Hammond today announced that the Government is to proceed with the full Thameslink upgrade programme.

Fortean London is taking a well-earned break this week. In its place, though, we have this interesting sight, spotted by Will Wiles (formerly of this parish) the other evening at Loughton station, toward the eastern extremity of the Central line. The “ghost train”, as we’re …

Network Rail have unveiled an artist’s impression of a new balcony at Waterloo station will help to alleviate overcrowding whilst, by coincidence, also ferrying passengers to a new strip of shops and cafes. The raised glass-fronted walkway, at the back of Britain’s busiest station (by …

Image by Adam NFK Smith from the Londonist Flickr pool Overcrowding on trains is set to get worse, according to a report from the Public Accounts Committee. Despite promises more than three years ago to add 1,000 carriages to trains by 2014, mostly in the …