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Saturday, 22 March 2008

DLR Limehouse footbridge project

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Limehouse has adjacent elevated DLR and c2c stations, built to act as an interchange, but the only route between them is via the street. Sin...
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Friday, 21 March 2008

DLR Woolwich Arsenal extension

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A year from now the second phase of the DLR City Airport branch is due to open, consisting of a new tunnel under the Thames connecting King ...
Thursday, 20 March 2008

The DLR three-car project

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Last week's event showing off the new DLR railcars was also the launch for the three-car DLR project, so it's probably time I wrote...
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How Bank-Monument works

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Since I made my maps of Green Park and King's Cross St. Pancras I knew it was only a matter of time before I had a crack at Bank-Monum...
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Monday, 17 March 2008

TfL nationalise Croydon Tramlink

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TfL have announced they're buying Tramtrack Croydon Ltd, the private consortium that built, owned, ran and in part paid for the Tramli...
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Ken: No new bendy bus routes

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Ken Livingstone has declared there are no plans to convert further routes to bendy buses. As Boris Johnson supports scrapping them complete...
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Sunday, 16 March 2008

New GE19 bridge gains temporary extension

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I was on a train out of Liverpool Street earlier today and was surprised to see the new GE19 bridge had gained an appendage on its west end...
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Thursday, 13 March 2008

New DLR railcars on display today

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The new DLR railcars were on display at West India Quay all day today, parked in the platform that as part of the same capacity upgrade pro...
Wednesday, 12 March 2008

Stratford DLR footbridge: FITE!

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TfL are quietly fuming after Network Rail closed their shiny new DLR footbridge less than two months after it opened. From the board papers...
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Shepherd's Bush Overground opening date: October 2008

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This month's board papers have another update on the Shepherd's Bush Overground saga: Network Rail and Westfield are making good pr...
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Board Papers: March 2008

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TfL held an "open session" board meeting today. While I couldn't stay long enough to hear anything interesting, I did manage t...
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Monday, 10 March 2008

Mayoral transport manifestos

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Ken Livingstone launched his transport manifesto today, and you can download the full PDF here or read the summary . Boris Johnson has as a...
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ELL bridge move diary dates

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We now have provisional dates confirmed for when each of the three major bridges being built for the East London Line extension are to be mo...

Tube map watch: March 2008

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A new copy of the pocket tube map is available at some tube stations (click to enlarge): Changes from the February pocket map are: Shepherd...
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"Number 10" supports TfL Southern takeover

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The Guardian today provides some more speculation regarding the possible integration of bits of Southern into London Overground. (try to i...
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Sunday, 9 March 2008

Heathrow ULTra PRT

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Heathrow Terminal 5 will add two extra modes of transport to London's repertoire, both variations on rubber-tyred people movers. The fir...
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Wednesday, 5 March 2008

How Farringdon Crossrail will work

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New London Architecture have an exhibition on at the moment about Underground London, and included in the brochure is this diagram of Farri...
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DLR Delta Junction upgrade

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Delta Junction is the triangular junction at the north end of the Isle of Dogs, between Westferry, West India Quay and Poplar. Two corners o...
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London Overground for south London

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This month's Londoner has a short article on Transport for London's ambitions to add services in south London to the London Overgro...
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Crossrail refused full track access rights

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The Crossrail project has been busy applying for thirty year access rights (what they call TAO) to make sure its services can run on existi...
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