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There's been a bit of confusion over whether Mitcham Eastfields station would open on Sunday or Monday. In particular, the National Rai...

The story of what happened to the GE19 bridge last night is starting to become clear. The bridge had been jacked up to remove its temporary...

Part of the East London Line extension's GE19 bridge has fallen off , closing Liverpool Street station: Train services at Liverpool Str...

I've been on a visit to the scene of this week's DLR disruption and it turns I was totally wrong about what the problem is. The bit...

The engineering work on the DLR this weekend has inadvertently resulted in trains no longer being able to run around the west side of the ju...

Two TfL managers have just done an online Question Time session with an uncharacteristically eloquent and on-message section of the general...

The subsurface lines (District, Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City) are all due to have their trains replaced by S Stock from 200...

The current Southern franchise expires in September 2009, and the DfT have just published the consultation document for its replacement. Of...

The North London Line and the Gospel Oak to Barking Line will be shutdown for extended periods this autumn for the enlargement of Hampstead ...

Back in January signs appeared at Northern Line tube stations advising that during the morning peak, all northbound trains on the Bank branc...

A couple of interesting stories regarding the funding of Crossrail . First the Guardian reckon if it goes ahead TfL won't be able to aff...

View all posts about Mitcham Eastfields Let's try this again. Mitcham Eastfields station is allegedly opening in two weekend's tim...

3 weeks into the work at Shepherd's Bush to move that wall and they've started repositioning the wall segments in what looks like t...

A year ago TfL announced they wanted to try out providing mobile phone coverage underground, with a test installation on the Waterloo &...

Time for a look at bits of East London Line construction that don't involve moving bridges. Last month's is here . A high rise devel...

The Mayor has announced that First Great Western will be the fifth train company to roll out Oyster on all its London services: Thousands m...

Thanks to TfL I had the privilege of witnessing up close the new East London Line bridge north of New Cross Gate being installed. Here'...

View all posts about Mitcham Eastfields First Capital Connect have posted a revised opening date for Mitcham Eastfields : We have been inf...

They've very nearly got the bridge in place and my time here us up. Here's one final photo.

The bridge is now only inches from its final position. And again with the tape measure?