A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…
Extending the Northern Line to Peckham and Streatham
London Underground
Calls for Latimer Road Station to close for Notting Hill Carnival amid fears of trouble near Grenfell HuffPo
Crossrail / Elizabeth line
Crossrail funding contributions from developers forecast to hit £600m target a year ahead of schedule CityAM
With over half the escalators now installed in the new Elizabeth line stations, new timelapse video and photos released by Crossrail highlights current progress. IanVisits
New Elizabeth Line trains bugged by insect problem in early testing RTM
Mainline / Overground
Passenger spits in the face of East Croydon station manager after ticket dispute Croydon Advertiser
Unions protest outside London Waterloo over new Surrey rail operator’s ‘refusal’ to clarify guarantees over staffing and driver-only operation Get Surrey
Brixton Arches trader challenges Network Rail boss Brixton Blog
Train partly derails near London Paddington station in second incident this week Independent
Back to the Future: (Re)lengthening and Shortening at Waterloo London Reconnections
DLR
Bank station fire alert: DLR halted after track fire breaks out in tunnel Standard
DLR will come under pressure as trains avoid key London stations The Wharf
Miscellaneous
How to get cheap train tickets, if you’re not British Diamond Geezer
A schizophrenic man repeatedly stabbed a train passenger in an unprovoked attack after yelling “I want to kill all the Muslims”, a court has heard. BBC News
The art of mapping London’s transport networks IanVisits
And finally, protesters against the HS2 rail link have joined clergy in a memorial service to mark the impending exhumation of 60,000 bodies and the felling of 100 century-old trees around Euston station The Guardian
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Image above is from Feb 2015: Extending the Northern Line to Peckham and Streatham
