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  • 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    The small and somewhat cramped accommodation on platform one at Paddington station has been replaced by a new a bigger unit right on the Lawn itself.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…

  • 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…

  • KX/LNER: A celebration of anniversaries

    King’s Cross station had its 170th anniversary and then both KX/LNER celebrated the Flying Scotsman’s anniversary, then LNER’s 100th anniversary – well sort of as the current LNER hasn’t been in existence for a century. (This thread on Rail Forums discusses the pros and cons of that claim.) But nevertheless there are important milestones that…

  • 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…

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