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London Underground to resume normal Met line services next week
London Underground is resuming a normal Metropolitan line timetable from next week, after announcing an urgent cut in services on the Metropolitan line earlier this month due to problems with the wheels on its trains.
London Underground is cutting Met line trains on Monday due to faults
London Underground has announced an urgent cut in services on the Metropolitan line after it found faults on the wheels of some of its trains.
Moor Park, the tube station in a private estate
In northwest London lies a tube station that sits almost entirely inside a private housing estate. The tube station, Moor Park on the Metropolitan line sits between a private golf course on one side and a large private housing estate on the other.
Disused tube station – Waddesdon Manor
In the middle of empty fields, a long way from London can be found the remains of a disused London Underground station.
Ickenham becomes the latest step-free tube station, raising total to 84
Ickenham station in northwest London, on the Piccadilly and Metropolitan lines, has become the 84th station on the tube to have step-free access added to the station.
London Underground adds step-free access to Amersham station
Amersham Station, at the western ends of the Metropolitan Line, has gained step-free access after a new lift shaft and walkway opened to the public.
The Met line’s Croxley rail link may be resurected
The government is to be asked to reconsider funding the dormant Croxley Rail link extension to the Metropolitan line in Watford, as part of its plans to support "shovel ready" projects.
Take a trip on London Underground’s Watford North Curve
This weekend (11th-12th Jan) is a chance to ride a short stretch of London Underground track that's not often used.
TfL warning of fewer trains on the Met line next week
London Underground has warned that there will be fewer trains on the Metropolitan line next week, while a new signalling system is introduced.
Tickets Alert: Affordable vintage train trips
A relief from the prices that steam trains have to charge for trips, as a 1950s vintage trains offers affordable runs along part of the Metropolitan line in September.
Tickets Alert: Vintage trains return to the London Underground
A host of vintage tube and steam trains are set to return to the London Underground's Metropolitan line in September for a weekend event.
Ticket Alert: Steam trains to return to the London Underground
A weekend in September will see steam trains return to the Metropolitan line as part of Amersham's heritage weekend.
Metropolitan line extension secures funding deal
London Underground has confirmed that plans are in place to start construction work on the extension of the Metropolitan line next year, with the aim of completing the new link in 2020.
Steam trains and afternoon tea on the London Underground
Combine steam train travel and tea and cake on the Metropolitan line for a late summer treat.
At just 26 days, London Underground’s shortest lived tube station
On the 1st November 1884, a tube station changed its name, and in doing so became the shortest-lived tube station to bear the name it once had.
80th anniversary of Northwood Hills tube station
Happy Birthday to Northwood Hills tube station -- 80 years young today. If you use the station, do take time to look in the window of a local restaurant, as you might see a birthday cake in there, as one has been bought by the station staff.
London Underground Signal Box gets Listed Status
One of London Underground's rarest and best preserved signal boxes has been given a Grade II listed status today as a result of a joint English Heritage and Network Rail project to safeguard railway signalling heritage.
How the world’s first underground (passenger) railway was built
As we edge ever closer to the 150th anniversary of the opening of the world's first underground railway which is now just a couple of weeks away, it might be interesting to review of the newspaper reports about how the construction of the railway progressed up to that momentous date.
The final day of the 50-year old Met Line trains
Yesterday, the last of the 50-year old Metropolitan Line trains made its final public trips along the railways, and like an awful lot of people, I took a short trip to say farewell to the old timer.
The last chance to ride in the old Metropolitan Line trains
Tomorrow (Wed 26th Sept) will be your very last chance to take a trip in one of the old Metropolitan Line trains running along the main part of the network as a member of the public. There is a farewell…
Luggage racks from the old Met Line trains for sale
Possibly a slightly expensive gift for the commuting transport geek in your family, but the Transport Museum has grabbed a load of the old luggage racks that used to appear in the soon-to-vanish A Stock trains that spent the past…
More details of London Underground’s 150th Anniversary Events
You may recall that the Transport Museum has secured a grant to Aldwych tube station might be open for tours in the summer (more about that in a day or three). The rail depot at Neasden is expected to have…
Chesham Shuttle to Return to Service this Weekend
Last December, the need to change trains to catch a short shuttle service to Chesham on the Metropolitan Line was abolished as direct trains were introduced as part of the line and train upgrade programme. This weekend though, the Shuttle…
