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It's the annual Priority Seating Week -- an event that shouldn't need to exist -- to encourage London commuters to offer their seat when they see someone else is in need of it.

Canary Wharf is working on a proposal for an improved rail link between the Docklands and Euston mainline station.

A weekly round-up of London's rail transport news...

Although earmarked to be closed, most of London Overground ticket offices are to remain open, after the Mayor of London diverted an additional £5m funding from London’s business rates.

Next month, the last ever passenger service HST will leave Paddington, and you can be on board.

Here's an odd thing for sale, and hence, for some people, utterly desirable -- boxes of unused destination labels used on Intercity 125 trains.

It turns out that the official supplier of tube roundels to London Underground has a side-line in coffee tables.

Researchers at the University of Bath have been able to use a novel form of satellite monitoring to show where Crossrail tunnels run under central London.

The mezzanine at Waterloo Station has been filled with photographs of railway footbridges -- as part of the Network Rail retrospective study.

A letter sent to local politicians has confirmed that Crossrail plans to launch a rail service between Paddington and Reading in December this year.

A weekly round-up of London's rail transport news...

Due to works on the London Overground extension to Barking Riverside, services on the c2c railway lines in the area are going to be hit with several weeks of serious disruption.

The current franchise operator for Southeastern trains, Govia has had its agreement extended, on a temporary basis.

If you travel on the sub-surface lines, you might not be aware of it, but the trains have a small point of interest in their door design.

A total of 14 railway stations in the London area are to get step-free access, following a funding agreement from the government.