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  • Schwebebahn 125th anniversary

    2026 is the Wuppertal Schwebebahn 125th Anniversary! The railway’s first ever test run took place on 5th December 1898, thus the world’s longest surviving monorail system began life much earlier than is often thought. The 125th anniversary is related to the actual opening of the line in 1901 – whilst also not forgetting the Kasier’s…

  • Baker Street tube gets toasted!

    Baker Street tube station got toasted? Wow! How did that happen? Well evidently that’s the yeast of one’s worries! But to put it briefly, this toastally awesome adventure began when many famous celebrities all took part in the various plots to compliment a certain Bolton based bakery’s success. Besides publicising the company’s wholesome reputation, the…

  • Guinness minimalism at Covent Garden

    Tottenham Court Road featured the full Guinness Open Gate advertising in the previous post on this latest collab with TfL, however Covent Garden, being the station nearest to the Guinness mini brewery in Covent Garden, received quite a minimal format of the special advertising devised for this campaign. In some reports (such as Diamond Geezer)…

  • Its a bold life for London’s tube!

    These days one could query whether TfL is getting drunk on beer. But its not what things quite seem to be! Despite a ban on alcohol TfL certainly takes on a bold stance when it comes to the question of advertising things that have apparently been banned by the organisation. In this latest collab which…

  • GWR Battery train in public service

    Today (Saturday 31st January 2026) Great Western Railway’s battery train (Class 230) began public service. Initially it will operate Saturdays only with a view to increased coverage during the week as the year progresses. I attended the first day’s operation in the early morning with the 08.15, 08.45 and 09.15 trips from West Ealing to…

  • 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…

  • A Tower Subway memo

    A London Inheritance published a post detailing the Tower Subway and also implied the southern end of the subway happened to be a mystery because it could not be ascertained whether the modern structure behind the Unicorn Theatre in Vine Lane was indeed its southern end. Its not its original southern end however the tunnel…

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