London’s weekly railway news #58
A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…
London Underground
How TfL plan to turn your local Tube station into a community asset Mayor Watch
Dylan Thomas poems to feature on London Underground SW Evening Post
London Underground depot upgrade receives L1 fire detection system Electrical Engineering
Strukton Rail installs POSS monitoring system on London Underground Railway Technology
Overground and Bakerloo Line to be suspended in Brent for five days Kilburn Times
Three customers to get free London Underground WiFi access V3
Ferrovial/ Laing O’Rourke to build £600m Northern Line extension Construction News (Google Cache)
Crossrail
Crossrail extension to Reading “will save £10M” NCE (Google Cache)
The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway, review: ‘nail-biting’ Telegraph
Franklin Jewellers quits Hutton Road store over Crossrail concerns Brentwood Gazette
Barber & Osgerby to design the interior of Crossrail trains. Fast Company
Mainline/Overground
Bombardier, CAF, Hitachi and Siemens have been shortlisted for a contract to supply 39 four-car ‘metro-style’ electric multiple-units for London Overground. Railway Gazette
Foamed concrete used to reinforce railway bridge in Catford. BusByway
Approval has been granted for a huge international freight terminal on green belt land in Hertfordshire after eight years of protest. BBC News
Britain’s new railway revolution – the shop arriving at platform 2 is for you Guardian
France has ‘option’ to buy UK taxpayer stake in Eurostar Telegraph
Miscellaneous
London Underground lays on trains for beer drinkers IanVisits
CIO Interview: The world of data is your Oyster at TfL Computing
The plant that dominates Britain’s railways BBC News
Much delayed, but TfL’s contactless rail fares can’t fail to impress Mayor Watch
Euro ATMs installed on Tube FStech
How three charities hijacked #tubestrike CivilSociety
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The image above is from Dec 2013: Sleep in a Northern Line tube train carved out of ice
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