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

New tunnel opens at King’s Cross station

London Underground

The Metropolitan Line Extension: Deadline Day London Reconnections

Black Mirror’s latest creepy marketing stunt involves taking over a London Tube Station Gizmodo

Netflix, Deliveroo and terrorism blamed for huge dip in Tube passenger numbers Independent

Sadiq Khan says making Kentish Town tube station step free ‘would be very complex’ Camden New Journal

Plan to sell part of London Underground fleet branded ‘quite mad’ ITV

Crossrail / Elizabeth line

The first Elizabeth line roundel has been spotted in the wild Diamond Geezer

Any delay to Crossrail project is biggest revenue risk to TfL, says deputy mayor AceNet

Canals, spies & politics – the Crossrails that weren’t built IanVisits

Crossrail 2 is set for further delays after London’s transport boss admitted a fresh funding review would push back consultations on the scheme until the end of 2018. AJ

Mainline / Overground

Unions blame train firms and ministers for New Year’s Eve rail strikes The Guardian

A look at the rebuilt London Bridge station Diamond Geezer

Network Rail shaves £100 million off the final cost of King’s Cross remodelling Rail

DLR

Custom House DLR station to reopen after a year Newham Recorder

Miscellaneous

Grumbling UK commuters can see light at the end of the tunnel – Britain’s rail system is far from perfect but it is better than it was Financial Times

A team of Engineering Students from Uxbridge College have won a London-wide competition run by TfL and sponsored by Cleshar. Fe news

TfL faces funding crunch as bosses say end of government subsidy isn’t sustainable for London CityAM

BBC News spent a day at St Pancras station, where there are two public pianos. BBC News

And finally, Would be Tube fare-dodger caught by the penis Anorak

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Image above is from Sept 2014: New tunnel opens at King’s Cross station

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3 comments
  1. Greg S says:
    5 January 2018 at 9:54 am

    I’m calling BS on the “Netflix, Deliveroo” bit – it’s so not the same service & demography…
    I have Netflix at home, but I always drive to the local cinema, this has nothing to do with my willingness to take the tube. And people who can’t walk 5 minutes to the local curryhouse would never take the tube to a fancy restaurant anyway.

  2. dave says:
    5 January 2018 at 11:01 am

    “In the year to November 2017, 416.7 million people travelled on the London Underground, compared with 421.2 million the year before.”

    I am certain that the annual figure is closer to 1.5 billion. Are they mis-labelling a quarterly figure?

  3. Will says:
    5 January 2018 at 5:57 pm

    I don’t get the picture of the new tunnel here when it’s not new?!

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