Generally speaking, when standing on a tube station platform, the only thing that should move is the tube train as it arrives, but there was once a tube station with a platform that also moved.
Plans to build a western rail link to Heathrow Airport have been delayed by several years due to the current financial situation.
After fighting off plans to expand the existing congestion charge out to the North and South circular roads, there is now a suggestion that there could be a London-wide charge to drive a car.
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The Crossrail parts of Farringdon Station have completed construction activity, and are now in the process of being handed over to TfL.
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Midland Pullman, an Intercity 125 train has been redecorated in the same bold blue livery, and its first journey will leave St Pancras on Saturday
If you’ve ever fancied a well-paid job as a train driver, then Govia Thameslink Railway is seeking more train drivers – and says it now has 160 vacancies across the four railway services that it operates across the south-east.
Two large, and not much loved, office blocks that stood at Euston station have been demolished to make way for the new HS2 station.
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A new entrance for Hackney Central station is set to be built after planning permission was granted by the council yesterday.
Crossrail has secured the funding it needs to complete the railway, after the government approved plans by the GLA to borrow £825 million against future income.
The results of a consultation into the Bakerloo line extension have been published, and unsurprisingly, most people seem to want it.
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An 82-year old tube roundel still in its original design has been restored outside Uxbridge tube station.
Crossrail has confirmed that it’s on target to start trial running of trains through the tunnels as soon as possible next year following successful tests in the past few weeks.
The group working to return one of the old 1938 era tube trains from the Isle of Wight to London says that it has been given one of the trains.
Crossrail is seeking an extra £80 million in short term funding to keep the project on track, otherwise construction works could be mothballed until an agreement is reached.
From late next February, Piccadilly line trains won’t be stopping at South Kensington tube station while escalator replacement works are carried out.
TfL has an order for a fleet of new DLR trains to replace over half of its older trains and expand the size of the fleet, and the first images of the new trains have been released.
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Oxford Circus tube station has had a temporary makeover to promote the launch of Sony’s new Playstation 5 games console.
TfL’s own in-house smartphone app released an upgrade last Thursday which now adds live next bus information to the search function.
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A huge new train departures sign has been installed at Victoria station that’s designed to be a lot easier to read than the older orange text displays.
