A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…
Photos from the Crossrail tunnels under Farringdon
London Underground
London Underground’s controversial ‘standing only’ escalator experiment put on hold ITV
Walworth residents are lobbying TfL not to plonk a giant ventilation shaft for the Bakerloo Line in Faraday Gardens. Southwark News
Crossrail / Elizabeth Line
Crossrail boss Sir Terry Morgan is new chairman of London City Airport The Wharf
Tunnel Vision: Vogue meets the women of Crossrail Vogue
Windfall Films is to dig deeper into the story behind London’s Crossrail after BBC2 ordered a second series of The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway. Broadcast
London Mayor Sadiq Khan “disappointed” there was no Budget backing for Crossrail 2 CityAM
TfL is to increase its Crossrail rolling stock order with Bombardier to accommodate an increase in Elizabeth line. Transport Briefing
The first Elizabeth line passenger train was hauled to Ilford this week. Illford Recorder
Crossrail’s Transition to Being a Tube London Reconnections
Mainline/Overground
Watch the fire which caused Southern Rail train to be evacuated in Croydon Croydon Advertiser
Back-pack battery powered vacuum cleaners are being used by Greater Anglia to speed its cleaning processes Railway Gazette
Electronic warning signs have helped cut the number of oversized lorries hitting a notorious railway bridge by more than a third. Transport Network
DLR
Investigation into a platform-train interface incident at Bank station Rail Accident Investigation Branch
‘Reckless train surfer’ slammed for risking his life by riding on moving DLR Standard
TfL has outlined plans to replace some of its aging DLR trains and in the process increase the size of the fleet to cope with extra demand. IanVisits
Miscellaneous
The shocking lack of women currently involved in delivering the country’s biggest rail infrastructure projects has been laid bare by analysis carried out by Construction News
How to improve the display of ticket prices on Southern Rail ticket machines Medium
Why a pan-London infrastructure levy is smashing its targets Planning Resource (Google cache)
Doctor, age 101, relives the night of Bethnal Green tube station’s 1943 air-raid shelter disaster East London Advertiser
TfL has created more than 175 new apprenticeship positions and say it is welcoming applications Highways Magazine
A train named after Arsenal football club The Arsenal History
Gibsons Games has revealed a brand new TFL licensed game, in the form of Mind the Gap. Toy News <– and you can buy it here
And finally, Disabled pensioner takes on Tube station challenge for charity Romford Recorder
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The image above is from July 2015: Photos from the Crossrail tunnels under Farringdon
