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

Photos from inside the Woolwich Crossrail Station

London Underground

Gunnersbury tube ticket office is closing ChiswickW4

Walthamstow Central tube station could get a second entrance IanVisits

TfL sorry over disgusting state of Seven Sisters Road exit at Finsbury Park station and vows to improve it Islington Gazette

Plans for one of the two new tube stations on the Northern line extension have been approved. IanVisits

Crossrail / Elizabeth line

Electricians employed by Balfour Beatty on the Woolwich section of Crossrail have voted to take strike action early next year. Construction Enquirer

Mainline / Overground

South Western Railway has admitted its recent performance “has not been good enough” GetWestLondon

c2c has been named the UK’s top train operator for 2017 in the latest punctuality statistics. Echo News

A third of Londoners say rail services are getting worse but new poll shows ministers aren’t getting the blame MayorWatch

DLR

Sentenced: Teenager from Aldershot who carried out death-defying stunt on DLR train East London Advertiser

Miscellaneous

London Euston hosts Christmas lunch for the homeless The Guardian

And finally, Photos from the construction of the Piccadilly line extension IanVisits

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Image above is from Feb 2013: Photos from inside the Woolwich Crossrail Station

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One comment
  1. Nic Maennling says:
    3 January 2018 at 3:42 pm

    Hi Ian,

    I am a very keen Canadian viewer of your London news. Thank you kindly.

    I just watched a superb Monty Don documentary about Kew Gardens. In order to heat the original greenhouse vast amounts of coal were delivered by an underground railway. He did not go into any details but, as I cannot find anything about it online, I thought I’d bring it to your attention. I’d like to see any photographs and whether it was human or engine powered.

    I will write to Kew but I thought I would first contact you.

    With all good wishes for 2018,
    Nic

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