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  • The Bakerl0.0 (#Three)

    Many extolled the fact TfL had made a mess of the line maps at certain stations on the Bakerl0.0. It can now be said that has all been put right and there are no longer any Bakerl0.0 line maps showing Kilburn Park and Maida Vale the wrong way round! One of the corrected maps at…

  • The Bakerl0.0 (#Tw0.0)

    Oxf0.0rd Circus and Marylebone stations today joined TfL’s latest tube brew up! The former is similar to Waterl0.0 however its not quite so comprehensive in the variation seen at the latter. Marylebone also came on stream – and even though its contribution appears to be the smallest of all – it actually has the BIGGEST…

  • The Bakerl0.0

    This week the Bakerloo line gained new advertising! Its for Heineken’s 0.0 lager with pretty negligible alcohol (at the most 0.05%). Hence the Bakerloo was restyled as the Bakerl0.0 line! The 0.0 looks better in Johnston and that explains why the advert has a great effectiveness when one views it in that particular font. Some…

  • The Elizabetron line?

    With stations such as Paddingtron located in the core route through the centre of London, here are some pictures which shows the advertising that have, erm… changed the former Crossrail line for the better! Its quite a rarity for TfL (otherwise known as Tronsport for London) to have almost every single station on the core…

  • Dizzying aint it?

    Classically, the tube has always had upright advertising. On some escalators new digital screens mimic the old arrangement of printed advertising known as Escalator Panels which means each screen is in an upright format. The new ones are known as DEPs (Digital Escalator Panels). With the advent of the new cross London route (also one…

  • My, my, what a load of rubbish!

    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…

  • The Bakerloobe

    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…

  • London Underground’s longest advert?

    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…

  • Knightsbridge tube’s final weekend

    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…

  • Knightsbridge opens soon!

    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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