A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…
Take a trip in Channel Tunnel trains on the Thameslink Line
London Underground
A tube worker has been fired and two colleagues disciplined after punches were thrown during a confrontation with an alleged fare dodger. ITV
Fine for man who racially abused London Underground worker after she helped him with directions Get West London
Crossrail / Elizabeth Line
Track slab construction on the Crossrail project is seeing the use of an innovative heavyweight concrete mix to minimise noise and vibration. Construction Index
Improvements to the streets and public areas near Abbey Wood Station and the Harrow Manorway Flyover are scheduled to begin next week. Bexley Times
Mainline/Overground
Southeastern delays: Travel chaos as two-minute journeys between Charing Cross and Waterloo East take an hour due to broken down train Standard
Southern Rail strike: Fresh walkout announced for next month Local Guardian
Peckham Rye Station is set to have its Victorian prestige restored with restorations to its “lost” architectural features. Southwark News
Network Rail rent demands are knockout blow for Lawrence Okolie’s Hackney Downs boxing gym Hackney Gazette
Shares in transport group Go-Ahead have dived 15% after it warned full-year profits would be lower than expected because of strikes at Southern rail. BBC News
German Rail (DB) has no plans to launch ICE services from Frankfurt to London in 2020, contrary to reports, but says it still sees potential for the route in the medium-term. IRJ
Eurotunnel has reported the best annual result in its 20-year history, tripling its profit on rising numbers of vehicles carried on its truck shuttle service Deutsche Welle
You’ve been in the job for just five months, and tasked with turning around the London south-eastern section of Network Rail – dubbed by some as Britain’s worst railway. IanVisits
Labour admit Southern rail compensation blunder BBC News
With little fanfare, the Goblin line has reopened Diamond Geezer
Miscellaneous
Visiting the occupants of the railway arches in London Fields where an atmosphere of crisis prevails currently. Spitalfields Life
Derwent London has agreed to sell its office to the Secretary of State for Transport in one of the first big property disposals in Central London following HS2 getting the green light. BDaily
Sadiq Khan wants to build 350 homes on car park opposite Blackhorse Road station Local Guardian
A student will admit both making and planting a ball bearing bomb on a London tube train, a court has heard. Talk Radio
And finally, the secretary of state for Wales has paid a visit to a Ffestiniog steam train whilst it is situated in London. Cambrian News
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The image above is from May 2014: Take a trip in Channel Tunnel trains on the Thameslink Line
