A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…
London Underground
Armed police evacuate Tooting Broadway tube station as man ‘threatens people with scissors’ London24
Stunning art by Tube workers on show at gallery run by Underground staff London24
Crossrail
Blog proposes changes to Crossrail 2 route UKrail
Crossrail 2 will shake Boris’s foundations Evening Standard
Crossrail Improvement Works Pass Halfway Mark Construction
A Crossrail lorry driver accused of causing the death of a Boris Bike rider in front of hundreds of commuters appeared in court Court News
Crossrail 2 campaigners fear over impact of construction work in King’s Road Evening Standard
Mainline/Overground
The most important test that HS2 doesn’t pass The Spectator
Animals find home at Elmstead Woods Station after gardeners create flourishing wildlife habitat News Shopper
J Murphy & Sons has won a £6.5 million contract to upgrade ten London Overground stations with new shelters and seating, upgraded lighting, better paving and new handrails. Rail Magazine
Double decker trains could be introduced on British railways within years as designers work on new model Telegraph
New station at East Croydon could be named Croydon International, says council leader Tony Newman Croydon Guardian
Plans to turn disused railway arches below the former Waterloo Eurostar terminal into shops and restaurants have been approved by Lambeth Council. SE1
Miscellaneous
A monorail connecting Old Street to Kings Cross and a network of tunnels underneath Tech City are top of a London’s digital bosses’ wish list. Evening Standard
History: The 1953 Underground crash on the Central Line between Stratford and Leyton Local Guardian
Peckham Coal Line project oversubscribed by £10,000 CityAM
The Ruislip Lido Railway appearing on TfL’s travel website Diamond Geezer
October breaks London Underground traffic records IanVisits
And finally, Exeter welcomes new ‘tube style’ pub map Express & Echo
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The image above is from December 2015: A history of Pubs on the London Underground
I see there has been a bad outbreak of “La-La-Land” ( Though I prefer the German: “Wolkenkukucksheim” ! ) this week ….
Monorails & DD-trains …
Oh dear
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