A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…

Have you noticed the unusual stone benches outside Euston Station?

London Underground

King’s Cross station closed due to over-crowding for second day in a row CityAM

Train drivers’ union says the RMT is blocking four-day week plans for Tube drivers CityAM

Crossrail / Elizabeth line

Crossrail has completed the base infrastructure works at Soho Place, on the corner of Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, directly above Tottenham Court Road station IanVisits

Mayor Sadiq Khan’s concerns over fresh Crossrail 2 delays revealed in letter to the chancellor CityAM

Unite has announced four more 24-hour strikes at a Crossrail site next month as a dispute with Balfour Beatty over bonus payments to electricians continues. Construction News

A sleepy railway station in rural Oxfordshire could now be an unlikely beneficiary of the Crossrail project. IanVisits

The Elizabeth Line will destroy this secret algorithm that runs London The Memo

Mainline / Overground

A vicar and a campaigner chained themselves to a tree near Euston station in protest over HS2. BBC News

Kent could lose one of its high-speed train services to London in the next rail franchise, it has emerged. Kent Online

Southern Railway tops the league of worst railways IanVisits

A Croydon MP has blasted Southern Rail after new statistics reveal which peak hour trains are the worst when it comes to being on time. Local Guardian

DLR

Workers on the DLR are to hold a 48 hour strike over a “comprehensive breakdown” of industrial relations. East London Advertiser

Miscellaneous

Leasing Lizzie: Finding the Funds for Deep Tube London Reconnections

TfL accused of failing to tell passengers about ‘second Northern line’ run by rival firm Evening Standard

Police appeal after passenger punches fellow commuter in row over laptop ITV

Heathrow Airport’s short-lived railway station IanVisits

Men urinated on Tube seat and filmed woman sitting in it Metro

And finally, video footage of passengers being taken off a District line train after the power failed earlier this week. YouTube

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Image above is from Feb 2017: Have you noticed the unusual stone benches outside Euston Station?

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One comment
  1. Jason Leahy says:
    19 January 2018 at 4:05 pm

    “TfL accused of failing to tell passengers about ‘second Northern line’ run by rival firm”,according to wikipedia Thameslink was on the Tube Map until 1998,as Thameslink is having a massive upgrade and will serve the same purpose as Crossrail allowing passengers to cross through London,I think it should be included on the Tube Map.

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