London Connections

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

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...

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

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

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

The Good News: They've finished filling in the gap in the platform left by moving the wall back. The Bad News: They've put those fsc...

Construction of the East London Line extension continues apace. Since I haven't checked in on progress since May , so it's time for...

The Thameslink Programme has three elements: Reconfiguring track and junctions so that more routes and more trains can run through the cent...

The Olympic Development Authority have published some amazing aerial photos of the Stratford Olympic site, including this one that shows t...

In recent months plans have emerged to improve the interchange at West Hampstead in conjunction with the upgrading of the Thameslink statio...

Following on from the late decision to switch from orange on white to orange, reader Simon has spotted a third kind at Clapham , this time...

The Department for Transport has published their results for their updating of the Chelsea-Hackney route (aka Crossrail 2). The only real c...

As I've posted about before , most of the London Overground network is going to be disrupted this autumn for engineering work. If you ha...

Hertfordshire County Council are about to submit a new business case for to the Department for Transport, less than six months after the l...

The House of Lords Committee on Recomittment that was reviewing final amendments to the Crossrail Bill appears to have finished, and readi...

Each time I visit Shepherd's Bush Overground, they've made some significant step towards fixing the dodgy platform . This time, they...

TfL held its first board meeting since the Mayoral election last week, and the papers are online . Highlights: Oyster PAYG on National Rail ...

Since coming to power, Boris Johnson has taken part in two Mayor's Question time sessions. You can read his written answers here and he...

When London Overground moved in last year, they were quick to replace the external signage at all of their stations with their signature whi...