One of the periodic reports from TfL has been released with details of ongoing network upgrades across the networks it controls over the past few months. If you’ve ever wondered what goes on when the lines are closed at weekends, this will inform you.
Plans for a second entrance to Southwark tube station are set to go ahead following a recommendation from the council’s planning officers that they be approved.
The King’s Observatory, a Palladian style building commissioned by King George III as an observatory for the transit of Venus is for the first time ever* letting the public inside.
Following the weekend’s trip by the 1938 tube train through central London, it will be out again next month in another part of the Underground.
This century old church in Holborn is a reminder of anti-catholic protests and a street widening programme to sweep away slumps.
In 1968, Pink Floyd took a trip on the London Underground, to film a video for their second album and they’ve just released the rarely seen video once more.
Upholding an ancient law, next month a bale of straw is to be hung from the Millennium Footbridge as a warning to boats on the Thames.
As part of the annual Open Garden Squares Weekend that takes place later this year, one rather special garden will be open to the public – the one behind 10 Downing Street.
This short alley near Tower Bridge is a delightful passage to the Thames, but was very nearly sealed off.
Earlier today a very old train took a very rare trip through central London for what will be one of the last times it can make such a journey.
Up high in the imposing Senate House in Bloomsbury, a magical exhibition of conjuring history has recently opened.
Over a number of days last November, Europe’s largest load test was carried out on a series of concrete piles that were installed around Moorgate tube station.
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This coming Sunday, a vintage tube train will be running through central London, and out at Epping, vintage buses will travel around the countryside.
Perpetual motion and the perpetuity of life are the topic of two very different exhibitions within yards of each other within UCL’s campus in central London.
