The Morden-Edgware Line #4
Continuing the Morden Edgware Line series. So far there’s been three specific Morden Edgware line posts plus one spin off. These are shown below: Morden-Edgware Line #1Morden-Edgware Line #2Morden-Edgware Line #3 (Leicester Square Special) Woodstock (Brent Cross) on the Edgware Line Modern-Edgware Line in print (2): The 1930s-1950s tube maps:…
Coffee Pot Signals 2023
Coffee pot signals developed from the very early types of signals in use on the tube and indeed these were derived from the most simple hand held railway lamps. When exactly it was that coffee pots signals were first used on London’s underground is not known, although general consensus is…
The state of the Elizabeth Line
The Elizabeth line is just so tardy! Its trains are late, cancelled or stuck in tunnels for what seems like an infinity. Efforts have been tried by this blog to keep a tab on the numerous comments on social media (and in the mainstream news) on the huge problems that…
New train services from DLR Mudchute
Its generally assumed the bay platform 3 at Mudchute sees no regular traffic and perhaps only when there’s engineering works or an operating issue that trains get routed into the bay platform. With the enhanced May 2023 timetable upgrade however there’s been a considerable number of Lewisham to Stratford trains…
SWR Class 707 Finale
The British Rail Class 707 Desiro City is an electric multiple unit passenger train. Siemens Mobility built 30 five-carriage sets. Initially leased by South West Trains, its franchise successor South Western Railway began moves towards phasing them out of their network – and that even though the full compliment had…
TfL station gets new identity
A very controversial issue this – its not the first time of course – however the backlash this time has been more vociferous and its because of various factors including disability, accessibility etc. To start with TfL have yet again renamed a tube (and Elizabeth line) station! The difference this…
TfL station has summer makeover
Earlier this year there was an interview with a noted graffiti artist who explained why he does the sort of thing the general traveling public, TfL, other transport operators and the law frowns upon. Its a highly noted person given the huge proliferation of his work which can be seen…
Woodstock (Edgware line)
The line from central London to Edgware was built in three stages. First the section from Charing Cross to Golders Green where a terminus and a large depot had been built was opened in 1907. The next stage to Hendon opened in November 1923 and the final stage to Edgware…
The Morden – Edgware Line #3 Leicester Square special
A tweet by Tim Dunn about the new rotunda at Leicester Square in ‘Northern Line’ days (it actually opened in Morden-Edgware line days) prompted an even deeper look at the archives at the LT Museum – plus some detail from a post I wrote in 2016. Hence this is an…
The Morden – Edgware Line #2
The Morden-Edgware Line was a real London tube line few have heard of even though most know it as the Northern Line! Surely the Morden-Edgware was a total misnomer especially when it came to renaming the line in 1937 – and the Northern Line is in fact the better choice?…