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- Museums at Night takes place this weekend
- The Return of The Cough
- Testing being carried out on the new Cable Car route
- A look around the Leonardo exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
- A bookshop has opened inside the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner
- Birds nesting at Canary Wharf
- Ride in a 1938 era tube train at the Rickmansworth Festival
- Expect gunfire and explosions near Old St tube station this evening
- St Nicholas Church in Great Wakering
- A small museum inside a military firing range
transport issues Archive
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Testing being carried out on the new Cable Car route
Posted on May 12, 2012 | 5 CommentsIt’s been about a month since they joined the cable car pylons with the necessary cables during the early hours of a Saturday morning and a couple of weeks ago... -
Ride in a 1938 era tube train at the Rickmansworth Festival
Posted on May 8, 2012 | 9 CommentsThe annual Rickmansworth Festival is in a couple of weeks time, and as usual, the London Transport Museum will be there with vintage buses to ferry people between Rickmansworth Station... -
Some photos of the Crossrail construction site at Tottenham Court Road
Posted on April 20, 2012 | 4 CommentsOne of the larger and most visible construction sites for Crossrail has to be the massive site on the corner of Oxford Street and TCR – in what was always... -
A look around the building works on the Hammersmith Flyover
Posted on April 18, 2012 | 3 CommentsThe dramatic closure then partial reopening of the Hammersmith Flyover is about to move into a new phase as a series of night-time closures takes place to finish off the... -
More photos from inside the Connaught Tunnel
Posted on April 11, 2012 | 7 CommentsLast week I had a chance to go back into the Connaught Tunnel – the Victorian railway tunnel that runs underneath two of London’s docks and will be part of... -
Looking down a Victorian pumping shaft in Docklands
Posted on April 4, 2012 | 12 CommentsA small octagonal brick building in docklands conceals a marvellous secret – an 18 metre deep Victorian shaft that is used to pump out water that leaks into the Connaught... -
Punch on the London Underground
Posted on March 28, 2012 | 1 CommentJust a few cartoons that I recently acquired about the London Underground that were published in Punch Magazine at the start of the last century. Apart from the jokes, which... -
Another date announced for the Cable Car’s “cable stringing event”
Posted on March 26, 2012 | 3 CommentsAfter several delays, it looks like this coming weekend will finally see the ropes strung between the Cable Car pylons. They were supposed to happen each of the past three... -
Another upgrade for the Jubilee Line completed
Posted on March 23, 2012 | 3 CommentsMonday should see the final stage of the long running signalling upgrade on the Jubilee Line come to completion, as the line starts running close to its theoretical peak rate.... -
Photos from inside the Crossrail Station at Canary Wharf
Posted on March 23, 2012 | 7 CommentsIt may not look it from the outside, but an important part of Crossrail’s Canary Wharf station has already been completed – and five months ahead of schedule. In fact...