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  • The tube loses track of time!

    The Bakerloo line at Waterloo station is currently seeing the latest iteration in a long line of TfL stations that have undergone makeover. It wasn’t that long ago when it was the prime focus for the Bakerl0.0 Heineken advertising. There’s a near repeat of that style of advertising at Waterloo – but this time its…

  • Baker Street tube blows its crumpet!

    For two days Baker Street became Bakers Street and crumpets featured as the station’s main roundel over those two days! This complimented the advertising on the Jubilee line platform at Baker Street tube station – which had been active for the past week. Its a rare example of an advertising collab with TfL that began…

  • 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…

  • Rail legacy issues and the Deaf

    On March 2nd 2026 Chancellor Reeves inadvertently eulogised what the railways are most excellent at. This being the art of aural communications. Its so much easier to pick up a microphone and make announcements isn’t it? “This government is making sure passengers aren’t asked to spend a penny more on regulated fares, including season tickets…

  • Boarding/alighting the Elizabeth line

    One of the curiosities of city life is the transport systems and the sheer overcrowding that occurs. A particular bugbear is the Elizabeth line, where unlike the tube in which even a degree of certain respectability remains, many people are pushing on to the Elizabeth line trains before everyone has got off. It has become…

  • 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…

  • Changes at Paddington station

    The small and somewhat cramped accommodation on platform one at Paddington station has been replaced by a new a bigger unit right on the Lawn itself. The new Assisted Travel Lounge is sited near platform nine and it was formerly separate shop units (including a Whistlestop store) that were merged and refurbished to create this…

  • 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…

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