A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…
London Underground
‘It’s unacceptable’ – disabled fume at Oakwood station access problems Enfield Independent
Crossrail
Crossrail Receives 465 Metre Long Concreting Train CILT
Race starts for £110m Crossrail 2 consultants deal Construction Enquirer
London tunnel creates jobs in West Midlands BBC News
How to Break Apart London’s 1,000-Ton Tunneling Machine Wired
Images: See the first homes completed above a Crossrail station Wharf
Crossrail cuts dole queue with London’s biggest jobs scheme since 2009 East London Advertiser
Mainline/Overground
A train company has strongly denied claims it increased fares to take advantage of veterans travelling to events in London marking VJ Day. BBC News
Rail fares have risen nearly three times faster than wages over the past five years, new analysis suggests. BBC News
Overcrowding on the popular Brighton-Eastbourne-Hastings-Ashford fast service could be improved by using recycled London Underground trains. Hastings Observer
HS2 staff quizzed over plans to move Heathrow Express depot to Langley Slough Express
DLR
The people who use Cutty Sark DLR station have become the stars of a photo exhibition documenting the life of the city. South London Press
Changes to the DLR timetable Diamond Geezer
Miscellaneous
Wife of man described as ‘light of Radlett station’ continues his legacy Local Times
Tube worker dupes Welsh Assembly into paying her their £104,000 cleaning bill Telegraph
Southampton’s pubs have been given a Tube map overhaul, with a view to making it as easy as possible to find somewhere to enjoy a drink. Daily Echo
Sex offences on London’s Tube and train network soared by more than 32 per cent to record levels last year, Evening Standard
A 32-year-old man has been jailed after struggling with a senior police officer on a Tube train at Golders Green station. Ham & High
London Reconnections launches a print magazine London Reconnections
And finally, a parliamentary tube map. Twitter
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The image above is from June 2013: A bronze frieze of London’s Underground commuters