A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…
London Underground
Boris Johnson has rejected calls for Bermondsey tube station to be included in Zone 1 any time soon. Southwark News (£)
Labour MPs have attacked Boris Johnson over planned Bakerloo line extensions to South East London. LBC
Tube bosses dismiss claims that majority of station staff face axe MayorWatch
Tube chaos as King’s Cross shut after ‘loose concrete’ found in the roof London24
London Underground boss confirmed to be stepping down ITV
Crossrail
THE GALLERY | Crossrail TBM starts complex tunnel drive NCE
Mainline/Overground
Six employees of South West trains jailed for ticketing fraud LBC
Rail commuters hit by 200,000 cancellations Evening Standard
The first official Big Issue vendor pitch inside a UK railway station has been unveiled at Euston Station The Big Issue
Balfour Beatty fined £350k for Thameslink electrocution Construction Index
Miscellaneous
Northern Line Carriage Becomes a Club for the Night Londonist
Designer Steve Lovell has spent more than a year creating a London Uunderground style map of pubs across the Wakefield district. Wakefield Express
Plans to develop London Underground’s historic Grade I listed headquarters in central London have been revealed. BBC News
Eley Kishimoto graffiti at Brixton tube station Creative Review
Watch a man race the Circle line and win Independent <– And the online game usvsth3m
Petition to include Surrey stations in London’s Zone 6 attracts 1,000 signatures GetSurrey
Fancy a luxury meal in a London Underground train? IanVisits
Someone wont be using using a contactless card on the tube Diamond Geezer
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The image above is from May 2012: Steam Trains return to the Epping Ongar Railway
Contactless and Diamond Geezer. I normally enjoy Diamond Geezer’s blogs, but I he is on the wrong track with his comments on contactless. Why on earth, given that you have season tickets already bought and paid for, would you even think about using a contactless card to pay for travel? I am surprised that Diamond Geezer’s re-issued bank card did not include the contactless symbol. If he really wants this function, he can always ask his bank to give him a new card.
As far as I am concerned, the missing ticketing option is the ANNUAL off-peak travel card. As I no longer work, I have the luxury of travelling between the rush hours and would welcome a yearly travel card.