A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…
London Underground
TfL commissioner Sir Peter Hendy has said that a southern extension of the Bakerloo line could be completed within the next 15 years. SE1
Mixed Signals: A Small SSR Press Release With Big Implications London Reconnections
Tube worker locked herself in ticket booth to escape racist abuse London24
London Underground drivers earning £50,000 demand pay rise, four-day week and lump sum in 24-hour service transformation row Mirror
TfL takes over Croxley rail link after DfT raises “fundamental concerns” over council’s leadership MayorWatch
Crossrail
Video: £35m flat-pack Crossrail station built in a year Construction Enquirer
The route of Crossrail 2 has been revised following a public consultation. Building
RMD Kwikform has revealed a bespoke wagon wheel formwork for Crossrail tunnel openings. NCE
Mainline/Overground
Man ‘playing guitar on tracks’ holds up rush hour trains in Walthamstow Evening Standard
Final stages of £4.3m project to improve Ealing Broadway station Get West London
Miscellaneous
An international lawyer dodged paying more than £23,000 in train fares over two-and-a-half years using a doctored photo-card. Court News
TfL has been slammed for misleading commuters by stating that Epsom is in London on its website – at the same time as the Surrey market town is battling to finally be included in Zone 6. Local Guardian
…and finally, The untold story of the British Rail logo BT
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The image above is from Nov 2013: Dr Who and the Curse of the London Underground
It’s taken a year to build a ‘flat pack’ station? I was out there earlier today on my way to an exhibtion at ExCel and it still seems that there is a lot to do.
Whilst out that way, I took the opportunity to see how Crossrail is coming on and took the DLR to the next station for a look at the Connaught Tunnel approach. I was surprised by how much I could see, the arches of the tunnel portal are much more visible and the approach seems to have been re-aligned. Work seems to have finished for now and it looks as if the next stage is track laying.
If only Epsom was in zone 6 because I could have bought a one day travel card last Saturday instead of being restricted to station to station travel without the option of bus or underground.