A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…

One of London’s Airports Gains a New Train Station

London Underground

TfL has selected Arcadis to help deliver a £136 million upgrade scheme at Camden Town tube station. Construction

Renold Gears has won an to supply 7  new escalator drive packages for TfL’s refurbishment of escalators at Holborn underground station. Automation

TfL slammed after unconscious man is left on train at Harrow And Wealdstone Harrow Times

London Underground scraps plans for tunnel-cleaning train E&T Magazine

Crossrail / Elizabeth Line

Improvement work at Harold Wood station to begin to prepare for Crossrail Romford Recorder

Plans have been put forward to build a 250 space commuter car park in Iver to address demand expected by Crossrail users. Get Bucks

Mainline/Overground

Members of the RMT will walk out for 24 hours on April 4 – the 31st day of strike action since the row flared almost a year ago. Watford Observer

No case for a new London to Brighton rail corridor, says DfT TransportXtra

London Southend Airport could get its own train service run by the airport under bold plans Thurrock Gazette

Lambeth Council has started a review to see if there is a business demand for re-opening East Brixton train station. Brixton Buzz

Miscellaneous

Sadiq Khan has “no plans” to trial free public transport days in a bid to cut air pollution, saying the move would cost TfL £12m in lost revenue. CityAM

Investment in the UK rail network means that 6,400 more train services will be running each week by 2021, according to industry figures. BBC News

London’s transport commissioner Mike Brown said TfL is continuing a “rigorous approach” to driving costs down in its “biggest ever overhaul”, as it unveils a draft budget for 2017/18. CityAM

New chair wanted for Travelwatch London.gov

And finally, cat food brand Felix is aping on the mischievous nature of its long-time mascot to disrupt other ads on the London Underground The Drum

The image above is from August 2011: One of London’s Airports Gains a New Train Station

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One comment
  1. Gerry says:

    Why are railway stations and railway lines often referred to as train stations and train lines? It just grates.

    I suppose it’ll be ‘National Train’ and ‘Network Train’ next.

    But at least we should be grateful that the headline wasn’t ‘No case for a new London to Brighton train corridor’.

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