A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…
London Underground
The challenge to make London’s Victorian Tube network accessible BBC News
Oxford Circus Station Closed By Anti-ISIS Protest LBC
Bank card fraudsters fall for police trap at King’s Cross Tube station Ham & High
Staff on London Underground to stage 48-hour strike BBC News <– and cancelled LBC
Day two of escalator chaos at Brixton Tube as woman falls and ‘breaks ankle’ Evening Standard
London Underground shows off a new tube train concept IanVisits
Crossrail
Video – A look at London’s new Crossrail project CNN
Next phase of Crossrail work begins at Maidenhead Railway Station Maidenhead Advertiser
Temporary Crossrail bridge put in place in Iver Get Bucks
A variety of innovative methods have been used to build a major structure on Crossrail’s surface running section west of London. NCE (Google Cache)
In Pictures: Crossrail Site Webcams London Reconnections
Mainline/Overground
First Great Western set to get five-year contract extension BBC News <– Although massive delays out of Paddington won’t help London24
Councillor uncomfortable with Twickenham station seat removal Local Times
Those bereaved by the Paddington train crash have marked the 15th anniversary of the disaster with a ceremony. BBC News
Timelapse video of London Bridge station demolition works IanVisits
Miscellaneous
The Railway Children returns to London in an apt new venue What’s On Stage
A tube passenger who tried to stop a woman from being harassed by a group of young men was badly beaten in a vicious bottle attack by the gang. ITV
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The image above is from April 2010: First Day of the East London Line
I was on that first train and can’t quite believe that it has been four years since the extended East London line was re-opened. The line seemed to have been closed forever and I really missed the short hop from my then home in St John’s to Surrey Quays or Canary Wharf.