London’s weekly railway news #260

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

Hitchcock’s murals at Leytonestone tube station

London Underground

Tube passengers ignore ‘heavily pregnant’ woman and leave her standing Metro

Kilburn Tube mural vandalised – but only Camden half of it has been cleaned Local Times

London Underground injuries up since Night Tube launch BBC News

Crossrail / Elizabeth line

Crossrail extension to Ebbsfleet gets support from government body IanVisits

Artwork doesn’t usually measure over 50 metres long and weigh several tonnes, but that’s the challenge that Wrightstyle has to overcome as it completes work on Farringdon’s Crossrail station. Glass on Web

Mainline / Overground

Listed Dalston buildings will no longer be demolished under Crossrail 2 plans Hackney Gazette

Thousands of passengers were urged not to travel to Britain’s second busiest station on Thursday morning due to a signalling fault. ITV

Waterloo’s £800m capacity-boosting programme will only keep the station on the tracks until the mid-2020s before reaching a “choke point”, a TfL director has admitted. CityAM

Shoreditch Station Has Got Its Own Pride Roundel Londonist

A rail company has said schoolchildren who were left stranded in London were partly to blame for their situation. Cambridgeshire Live

Miscellaneous

Cheaper train services could run between London and Paris as alternatives to Eurostar if new proposals get off the ground. iNews

Melvyn Bragg hasn’t taken the Tube since suicidal urge on platform Independent

The Circle Line has become The Seafront Line and all the stations have turned into pubs on a new version of the London Underground map which celebrates Bridlington’s boozers and bars.  Bridlington Free Press

Incredible footage has captured the dangerous moment a young man leaps on to the roof of a train in south London. Croydon Advertiser

Why Chiltern Railways sent a family of chickens on a trip round London Campaign

On the 30th June 2003, London Underground introduced the notion of tapping in and tapping out – the Oyster Card had arrived. IanVisits

London’s “hidden fare zone” between Zone 1 and 2 Diamond Geezer

And finally, TfL Rail’s arrival in Brentwood has not made the town part of London, according to research from the London School of Economics. Essex Live

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Image above is from Oct 2016: Hitchcock’s murals at Leytonestone tube station