Transport for London hackathon goes on
Whether your name is Mr Anderson, or Agent Smith, if you’ve been trying to renew your concessions on Transport for London, and found yourself down a rabbit hole…
First new Piccadilly line test train arrives in London, gets graffitied within hours
The first of London’s new Piccadilly line trains has arrived in the UK capital, in what Mayor Sadiq Khan called “an exciting moment” for the city. However, not…
London’s DLR trains get new speed limit after going too fast
Speed limits have been brought in on the automated Docklands Light Railway (DLR), after Transport for London (TfL) engineers found that the trains that snake through London’s financial…
Why is London’s Tube so hot? It may be solar gain
Anyone who has taken the London Underground in summer knows that things can get hot – sometimes, dangerously hot. And temperatures appear to be getting worse. The climate…
London Overground name game is nothing new
All change. Londoners have only really just become familiar with the Overground, the bright orange addition to their enviable public transport network. The uniformly branded Overground is a…
Elizabeth Line popularity tailors a swift shift in Britain’s busiest stations
There are unprecedented numbers of passengers flocking to the Elizabeth Line. That popularity is music to the ears of the backers of the multi-billion pound project. The new…
Half a billion pound overhaul transforms London’s Central Line
The Central Line carries some of the busiest parts of the London Underground network. Now, it’s set for a step-change in rolling stock provision. Despite the gloomy post-pandemic financial…
London’s Elizabeth Line is a victim of its own success
Before it became fashionable to berate expensive infrastructure projects, the nineteen billion pound (22 billion euro) Elizabeth Line, was an icon of British engineering achievement. The building of…
Celebrities and rail bosses were among hundreds trapped by downed wires in west London
It’s already entered folklore as the Great Paddington Dewiring. When a major terminal is paralysed, one of the world’s busiest airports has connections severed, a showpiece metro grinds…
London’s DLR hit by collapse of construction firm
The collapse of the construction firm Buckingham Group may well cast a shadow over the planned upgrade of the DLR Docklands Light Railway system in London. The construction…
London Underground strike planned amidst safety and staffing dispute
In a move that threatens widespread disruption to London’s iconic tube transport network, the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers’ Union (RMT) has declared an all-out strike on the…
Finally a railway plan for the east of London
Despite funding fears, Transport for London (TfL) and its stakeholder partners are progressing public transport proposals for the under-served communities of Thamesmead and Beckton Riverside in the east…
UK safety watchdog unimpressed by London Underground “fire” evacuation
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB), the statutory safety body in the UK, is investigating the uncontrolled evacuation of a train at Clapham Common Underground station in early…
Underground conflagration before the overground coronation
Could London have suffered a disaster less than a day before the greatest ceremonial event of the century? That’s the question investigators will need to answer after an…
Crowning achievement for British railways
Saturday (6 May) saw Britain’s King Charles attend the most bling-worthy hat fitting in the world. The last time London faced up to the prospect of a ceremonial…