Category: London Transport
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When anyone reads London Rail every article is faithfully written and research is intense (and by the way not a single cent is earned). Not only that the output has detail and facts which others who are often paid and almost certainly abled (including speech) simply don’t bother with. The latest from a certain London…
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This is a follow up to the early origins of the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway – including being called the Bakerloo right from the days BEFORE the line had even been opened! There was one other portmanteau name that was offered in lieu of Bakerloo – and this was the Bakerloobe. No doubt it…
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Huge advertising currently to be seen at Oxford Circus station has to be a contender for the longest advert ever featured on London’s tube system! Its a non stop advert from one end of the station platform to the other on the northbound Victoria line. Its on the offside tunnel wall and the train featured…
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This is the final weekend (commencing 26th April 2025) of Knightsbridge tube station as a facility that offers access to its platforms solely by way of a bank of escalators and stairs. From next week Knightsbridge station will offer new accessible elevators (lifts) and corridors via a new entrance in Hoopers Court – and that…
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When one looks at existing Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete (GRC) buildings that have been around far longer than the Elizabeth line stations, one can only stand in awe, for these older buildings, some in very harsh climates, have withstood the test of time miles better. Indeed it looks as if the Elizabeth line’s stations have…
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This is a post first began in 2021 in anticipation of the completion of the Knightsbridge station upgrade project – and in view of the ongoing delays the original post has now been split up into several in order to cover the different progressions on the station’s upgrade. This past four years the main body…
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When Jago Hazzard says in his latest video (thanks to him for prompting me to write this latest essay) the railways are the biggest thing, everything will be railways (‘The time will come when railways will supersede almost every other form of conveyance in this country’) ‘etc etc, its almost like a patriarchal edict, a…
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Nigh on a hundred and twenty years ago, London’s fourth tube railway was on the way to being completed and opened. But there was controversy – and this revolved around the line’s name. Certainly there were other tube lines that would have far more of a mouthful for a title – such as the Great…
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The modern day exorcist has arrived! It could be anyone, even you or me, but in this case its TfL. The long standing controversy of those ghostly marks that are a feature of the Elizabeth line has finally seen a solution implemented. Its a simple case of cover the damn things! Evidently its easier to…
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Back in 2019 a feature on runway tube trains was featured. One of the posts published had a short section about a runaway train on the Island line. Despite the incident being mentioned in at least two rail magazines (one of which the author has a copy) it seemed absolutely nothing was mentioned in the…
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