London’s weekly railway news #170
A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…

London Underground
Commuters slam Central Line delays and ‘impossible’ crowds at South Woodford Illford Recorder <– headline photo is of Bank station though.
Plans for £65m upgrade at Paddington Station revealed Get West London
London’s most persistent American will not quit until Tube riders talk to each other WSJ
High speed video shows tube driver’s view of the Victoria Line IanVisits
Ilford North MP Wes Streeting calls for TfL to act on ‘unbearable overcrowding’ on the Central Line Illford Recorder
Crossrail / Elizabeth Line
Crossrail improvement works begin at Romford Station Romford Recorder
A digger pulled up an 11,000 volts power cable at Crossrail’s site at Connaught bridge plunging local offices into darkness for eight hours. Construction Enquirer
Silvertown residents regularly woken up at 4am by ‘horrific’ Crossrail train Newham Recorder
Mainline/Overground
Southern train cancelled ‘after passenger had coffee thrown over them’ Croydon Advertiser
Tottenham are asking to rename White Hart Lane station but could face a fee of up to £12 million from Transport for London, Squawka
Eurostar is to reduce the number of services it operates by 8% and intends to cut 80 jobs. Railway Gazette
Rail passengers will be able to claim compensation for delays of more than 15 minutes under new government plans. BBC News
London Paddington passengers to face major disruption over Christmas period Maidenhead Advertiser
Virgin Trains East Coast looking for wannabe train drivers for £57,000 roles Local Times
Special train from London to the south coast supporting the Royal British Legion on 12 November Rail
Hundreds of commuters were kicked off a train because the graffiti daubed on the side of the carriage was deemed to be too rude, Daily Mail
DLR
A case study into the line diagrams on the DLR FWT
Miscellaneous
The Chase looks again at Turner’s ‘Rain, Steam and Speed’ London Review of Books
DeepMind’s AI has learned to navigate the Tube using memory New Scientist
Exterion Media and TfL have unveiled a new commercial media partnership, Hello London The Drum
Hitchcock’s murals at Leytonestone tube station IanVisits
And finally, Something for data geeks – Transportation in London and Paris The Transport Politic
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The image above is from Nov 2010: Photographing the Wharncliffe Railway Viaduct
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