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  • 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…

  • The ‘Bakerloo tube’

    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…

  • The great unwashed 72 tube stock

    When it seemed the Bakerloo’s trains were going quite a considerable time without having a wash at the start of it all anyone could have assumed it was perhaps a temporary hiccup. But after seeing Bakerloo train after Bakerloo train totally covered in grime for the past two months and the trains are getting increasingly…

  • Paddington tube station design error is finally righted after a century!

    Paddington tube station has something that NO other tube station has! What is it? It could be any number of things, such as being the only deep level accessible tube station on the Bakerloo line (even though its not even step free from train to street – and by the way it isn’t the only…

  • The Hammersmith & City’s line’s construction disaster

    This is a special post for the 160th Anniversary of the Hammersmith & City line! Everyone knows the history of Metropolitan Railway as the world’s first underground line on 10th January 1863 between Bishops Road and Farringdon – but that was not even how the line was going to be built. Long before they had…

  • Southgate station – an appraisal

    The fact Cockfosters station – an appraisal was popular prompted me to dig out this further look at one of the Piccadilly line’s iconic tube stations. Although we regularly visited Southgate in the 1960s, at no time was the Piccadilly line ever used this far. However the station certainly is remembered because this was where…

  • Cockfosters station – an appraisal

    Despite being the butt of many a joke, ‘Cock Fosters’ as it once was, is a real place and noted for being the northern terminus of the Piccadilly Line. The location itself prior to the opening of the tube was not even a major settlement of any sort, just a small school and a vicarage.…

  • The twopenny tube guard who got killed by his own train

    In the very early days of London’s premier underground line – the Central London Railway (CLR) or the twopenny tube as it was popularly known, procured its first ever fatality. It wasn’t a passenger but a member of staff and the matter was down to the staff in question having taken offence to someone smoking…

  • The day tube staff dropped in on a happy honeymoon couple

    One would think from the title that this was some happy event not ever recorded previously in any blog or other media. You know, quite a big surprise and balloons and a buffet and the rest of it so as to make the honeymoon couple have a most memorable occasion and one to remember… Well…

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