By tezzer57 Eurostar this morning announced that it has placed a £700 million order for a fleet of ten new trains, which could allow it to run direct services to cities in Germany and The Netherlands. The company has also employed Italian firm Pininfarina to …
TfL are currently reporting that the District line has been part-suspended (the Kensington Olympic spur is closed) and is running with delays on the rest of the line; a “lack of available trains” is the official story. Yet what’s more interesting is the reason for …
Whether it’s the final word on the matter, we can’t be sure, but noises out of Crossrail today suggest that the project will go ahead with no deleted stations or branches. There had been fears that financial pressure would lead to a scale-back in the …
Carriage interior UPDATE THE TRAIN TRIPS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED AS THE TRAINS ARE FAULTY. AMERSHAM HERITAGE DAY GOES AHEAD AS PLANNED. LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM SAY KEEP ‘EM PEELED FOR RESCHEDULED DATES IN FUTURE. Heritage Train Day offers trainspotters, families and the mildly transport curious a …
Image / zefrog Tube strikes are expected this autumn, but how many? A strike has been pencilled in for September 6th; the Standard says similar 24-hour stoppages could happen every month, which sounds bad enough, but according to the Beeb, the unions are threatening to …
Photo / cafedereves Simon Hughes MP and his fellow Lib Dem London Assembly member, Caroline Pidgeon, are calling for Blackfriars station to be re-named. When the new cross-Thames platforms open in 2012, the station will benefit from an additional, transpontine entrance on the South Bank. …
Photo / cakehole Well, that’s what the headline on the BBC London article says. Actually, the video depicts a monitoring display from a London Underground control rooms, which does show how close the runaway engineering train (a rail grinder unit, our friends at London Reconnections …
Some of the new trains on the Victoria line, which are being introduced this year, have been affected by technical difficulties. Only around six of the new trains are being run at peak times, but two of them were involved in significant breakdowns recently: one …
Photo by Julian Gajewski The budget for cooling the Tube network may have been slashed, but that won’t affect the new air-conditioned S-stock trains, due to be deployed on the Metropolitan, Circle, H&C and District lines over the next few years. Julian Gajewski took this …
Photo by London Reconnections London Reconnections has been on a tour of West Ashfield station. It’s a stop you won’t find on any tube map: housed in a building near West Kensington station, the facility is used to train station staff, but in typical TfL …
Commuters struggled to get home last night after signal problems all but closed down the rail lines out of Paddington. The faults were caused by the theft of signal cabling from the West Drayton area (not an uncommon problem, it seems). Engineers worked through the …
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