Expect a sigh of frustration to issue from Walthamstow, Brixton and all points inbetween when commuters hear the rumour that the Victoria Line's 10pm weekday curfew - set to end this November - may continue into 2009. BBC London have turned out a fascinating report on the line's £900m refurb - they've been poking around with the engineers installing signals and track ahead of the new rolling stock set to be gradually introduced next year,......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 3rd March 1982: The Barbican Centre is opened by the Queen. After 15 years of construction, at a cost of £161 million, the centre would become the largest performing arts centre in Europe (as well as being voted the ugliest building in London). Tuesday – 4th March 1882: Britain’s first electric trams go into operation in Leytonstone, East London. Wednesday – 5th March 1856: The second Covent......

27. More Terrors Of The Tube! To continue from our last stop of ghosts pertaining to the London Underground, the spectral girl of Elephant & Castle appears to be a rail relation to the phantom hitchhiker legend, in that several witnesses have described, often whilst sitting in an empty carriage, encountering a young woman who takes a seat but often vanishes between stops. Just like many phantom hitchhiker myths, this particular spook story is......

You may remember the Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston for its inspired football World Cup sessions last summer where the on-screen action from Germany was accompanied by two competing free jazz ensembles. This time the club has turned to blues in the shape of South-East London guitarists Steve Morrison and Billy Jenkins who are presenting a brand new programme of topical music to accompany... a chess tournament. This Sunday sees the climax of five......

Another bumper crop of things to do and see this weekend, in particular all the Big Dance events taking place around town - more details here. But for the non-dance related things to see and do, the Culture Crawl starts here... Friday 21 July 1001 Nights Now at the British Museum. An evening of Arabian fairy tales re-told through the stories of migrant workers from the Middle East in Britain today; this is an......

New evidence has been uncovered linking July 7 bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan to Omar Sharif and Hanif Asif, who killed three people and injured 50 in 2003 with a suicide attack on a bar in Tel Aviv. A 20-year-old man has been charged with murdering a commuter by pushing him in front of a Tube train during rush hour at Highbury and Islington station on Friday. Police are still looking for people who were......

Remember on The Day Today when Chris Morris covered stranded train passengers going feral? It came close to happening over the weekend: More than 200 people were trapped underground for two hours when a Tube train got stuck between stations. Police were called at 0115 BST on Tuesday, after a Victoria Line train stopped between Highbury and Islington and Finsbury Park in north London. London Underground tried to get it moving again, but it......

The South London Press has laid its hands on some figures detailing the number of crimes reported across the rail and Tube network in South London over the past few years. In one year 8,776 crimes were reported across the network, and once you take out the major stations like Waterloo, Clapham Junction and London Bridge, the Victoria Line comes out as the 'danger line': "In 2004/05 there were 844 reported crimes at Brixton......

Well, the Routemaster bus might be going out, but London Underground seem to be debuting the Routemaster Tube, albeit unwittingly. In a slightly worrying item, the BBC report that a Victoria Line train recently travelled between stations with a set of doors open. A paternoster-style Underground system might seem like an intriguing idea, but the sudden acquisition of 630 volts of direct current awaits anyone attempting to alight before their stop. Metronet, who are......

The entrance to Victoria underground station. You may have seen it on the news. Closed, and surrounded by grumbling commuters. The scene is now synonymous with a failure on the network, be it transport strike, power failure or just too damn many ‘customers’. Victoria, you see, is London’s busiest Tube station during the morning rush hour. If the proverbial spanner goes anywhere near the works, Victoria takes the broadside, and gets gated off to......

News of incidents at Warren St, Oval and Shepherd's Bush, plus the no 26 bus in Hackney. No injuries reported but the tube network is down for the moment. Sky news: At Warren Street there were reports of a nail bomb explosion. Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said police believe this may have been the sound of detonators going off. Victoria Line train passenger Ivan McCracken told Sky News he spoke to an Italian man......