A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…
London Underground
The costs of entering and leaving a tube station without catching a train Diamond Geezer
‘Stores will close’ if Tube station entrance is closed during upgrade work, warn traders Islington Tribune
Temperature readings taken in the height of summer reveal Marble Arch on the Central Line to be the hottest, hitting an average temperature of over 30C last August. Standard
Six tower blocks planned for Harrow-on-the-Hill station branded TfL’s own ‘Trump Towers’ GetWestLondon
Crossrail / Elizabeth Line
TfL Rules Out Crossrail 2 Station at Imperial Wharf Neighbournet
Photos from Crossrail’s Liverpool Street station IanVisits
Crossrail 2 will hit affordable housing in Chelsea, claim campaigners Standard
Transport for London adds £34m to Crossrail 2 budget ConstructionNews
Why is the Elizabeth line not on the tube map? IanVisits
The life of an apprentice on Crossrail RailStaff
Mainline/Overground
Explosion caused fire on railway tracks in Hounslow – and it may have been deliberate GetWestLondon
Hundreds of people were cleared from a south-east London station after a billboard caught fire on the platform. Standard
Mayor of London backs rail boost that would slash journey times between Cambridge and the capital Cambridge News
Sadiq Khan is urgently trying to take over Southern Rail services WS County Times but faces concerns about whether he can improve anything MayorWatch
Norwich to London rail line to close for eight weekends this autumn to solve “heat related” speed restrictions Eastern Daily Press
Contractors have worked quickly to complete repairs of a collapsed sewer in South London and reinstate rail track ballast above Construction Index
Electric train tested at 125mph on Great Western line Gazette & Herald
London train stations descend into travel chaos as heat damaged tracks causes delays AOL
Miscellaneous
MP Claire Perry has quit as Rail Minister just days after admitting she was ‘often ashamed’ amid the fiasco over Southern Rail. LBC
The hunt is on to find a thug who pushed a worker at Willesden Junction train station to the floor and punched him four times in his face. Kilburn Times
Bicycles are being stored in disabled toilets on some of Eurostar’s international services to and from France, BBC News
TfL annoyed a lot of people with this air con tweet Metro
Dubai royalty share family photos of casual Tube ride in London Telegraph
Typos a plenty in the tube’s new art pages Diamond Geezer
Villagers have raised £2,600 to restore a gravestone for two local men killed in an 1898 railway accident. BBC News
And finally, man finally reaches his goal weight after travelling six stops on Central Line News Thump
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The image above is from June 2015: The Museum of London’s model tube trains
That model is ridiculous. That platform tunnel is huge.