London Connections

You know when you're happily watching a TV show, and the credits roll, and out of nowhere the announcer says "That was the last in ...

Well almost. These men are putting the last bits of trim onto the aluminium panels that cover the rebuilt part of the station building: You...

There are lots of elements to the Thameslink Programme , but at its core is a proposal to untangle the lines outside London Bridge to get th...

If you believe this press release or this press release , they've finally started work on site at Imperial Wharf station , just 5 short...

Crystal Palace is one of the strangest stations on the network. It's built on the apex of a triangular junction with platforms on two si...

According to this planning application , "funding has been secured" for enabling works for the phase 2 extension of the East Lon...

The main reason service the southern branch of the DLR is messed up is to rebuild Mudchute with three platforms . Reader Robert sends in th...

London Overground have quietly added walking interchanges to the London Overground network map found on trains: Oddly they don't tell yo...

When the new stations at Shepherd's Bush and Wood Lane open there'll be two new out-of-station interchanges, requiring a short wal...

Well, not very secret. But I've been sent a non-public London Overground presentation that contains a few interesting bits. Firstly, the...

A few quick quotes from the Barking - Gospel Oak Line User Group's latest news update : [...] as all the track works to permit 4-trains-...

During today's Oyster failure, TfL put out a press release that includes the first hint of what the problem is: This problem, like the...

Network Rail have a long term plan (after 2014 at least) to extend Waterloo's platforms across the current concourse (which is elevated)...

Following on from the photos I posted earlier this week , here's a great aerial photo of Wood Lane station taken by reader Former Optimi...

A few interesting items from the most recent Mayor's Question Time: Trains on the Gospel Oak to Barking Line will be lengthened to th...

Tottenham Court Road station is being massively rebuilt and expanded over the next 8 years - both to accomodate Crossrail and increase capac...

As previously reported here, the East London Line extension's Shoreditch High Street station is to be enclosed on all sides by a massiv...

Today both the House of Lord and House of Commons approved the Crossrail Bill , which grants the powers needed to build Crossrail, London...

The Crossrail Bill was approved by the House of Lords this morning. The final step to Royal Assent is a vote in the House of Commons schedu...

The 2M Group is an anti-Heathrow expansion pressure group formed by 19 London Borough Councils, plus a few from outside London. Today they ...