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RIP the Tube Improvement Plan, Long Live New Tube for London

On 30 December 2013 By Pedantic of Purley In Bakerloo Line, Central line, Jubilee line, London Underground, Northern line, Rolling stock, Victoria line, Waterloo & City

As the new year looms, it seems an appropriate time to look at where, in upgrade terms, the Tube goes next. We will shortly look at the upgrading of the Sub-surface Railway and how the …

Big Changes Gonna Come (Part 2): A New Approach to Ticket Sales

On 25 November 2013 By John Bull In Bakerloo Line, Boris Johnson, Central line, Circle line, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee line, London Underground, Metropolitan line, Northern line, Piccadilly line, Politics, Victoria line, Waterloo & City

In Part 1 of “Big Changes” we took a look at London Underground’s proposed plan for running nocturnal Tube services. Here in Part 2 we now turn to the other major change to the Underground …

Big Changes Gonna Come (Part 1): The Night Tube

On 25 November 2013 By John Bull In Boris Johnson, Central line, Circle line, District line, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee line, London Underground, Metropolitan line, Northern line, Piccadilly line

Last Thursday at Piccadilly Circus, in front of a small crowd of journalists and television cameras, Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Mike Brown, MD of London Underground, pulled the covers off of a new …

Bank Station Part 4: Getting Radical

On 16 November 2013 By Pedantic of Purley In Construction projects, London Underground, Northern line

In part 3 of our look at the plans for Bank station we described the continuing growth that is taking place there and the revised plans to handle this growth, including a work site at …

Bank Station Part 3: A Dance of Dragados

On 8 November 2013 By Pedantic of Purley In Construction projects, London Underground, Northern line

As regular readers will know there was a consultation exhibition about the Bank Station Capacity Upgrade recently. Long term readers will also recall that there had been at least one previous consultation which took place …

In Pictures: Refurbishing the 95 Stock

On 29 May 2013 By John Bull In In Pictures, London Underground, Northern line, Rolling stock

Whilst debate continues over Deep Tube and the S-Stock rollout pushes forward, other rolling stock changes are still happening quietly elsewhere. Below are thus several pictures of the newly refurbished 95 stock on the Northern …

Catching Up With The Committee: Part 1

On 21 May 2013 By The Walthamstow Writer In London Underground, Northern line, Overground, Rolling stock, TfL

A month is a short time in Transport Politics. Whilst today’s Transport Committee is set to look at Crossrail 2 (a topic to which John Bull will be turning his eye shortly), last month’s meeting …

Northern Line Postscript: Deep In The Heart Of Camden

On 14 May 2013 By Pedantic of Purley In London Underground, Northern line

Our recent article on future Northern Line upgrades was not really meant to be about one particular aspect but how the pieces as a whole fitted together. It was acknowledged in the title that the …

We Need To Talk About Camden: The Future of the Northern Line

On 6 May 2013 By Pedantic of Purley In London Underground, Northern line, Rolling stock

A very strange thing has happened in the past year or so regarding London Underground and the Northern Line – senior managers have actually wanted to talk about it. This comes as quite a surprise. …

Roundtable: The TfL Draft Business Plan

On 10 December 2012 By Pedantic of Purley In Borismaster, Buses, Croydon Tramlink, GOBLIN, Jubilee line, Northern line, Piccadilly line, Roads, Rolling stock, TfL, Tramlink, Uncategorized, Waterloo & City

Transport news, like London buses, often seems to come in clumps. With the various recent announcements it would thus be easy to miss that TfL have published their draft Business Plan for the next decade. …

Northern Line Extension Public Consultation Details

On 14 November 2012 By John Bull In Battersea Extension, London Underground, Northern line

TfL have now made public the details of the public consultation for the extension of the Northern Line to Battersea via Nine Elms. As was indicated in the leaflet distributed last June, the chosen route …

Bank Station Part 2: The Upgrade Proposals

On 7 August 2012 By Pedantic of Purley In London Underground, Northern line

In part 1 of this article we looked at the need to upgrade Bank station to provide sufficient capacity for the number of people using it. We now look at the proposals put forward to …

White Knights and Wishlists: Northern and Bakerloo Line Extensions

On 23 January 2012 By John Bull In Bakerloo Line, Battersea Extension, Camberwell extension, London Underground, Northern line

As the final quarter of 2011 drew to a close, the future seemed bright (or at least no longer entirely dark) with regards to extending the Underground. The release of the Mayor’s updated Transport Strategy …

In Pictures: Tottenham Court Road Reopens

On 28 November 2011 By George Moore In Northern line, Tottenham Court Road

For almost eight months now, for travellers on the Northern Line’s Charing Cross branch, the next station from Goodge Street has been Leicester Square and from Leicester Square, Goodge Street. Today the Northern line platforms …

Stretching the Line: Why We Do (and Don’t) Extend Tube Lines

On 15 September 2011 By Pedantic of Purley In Bakerloo Line, Battersea Extension, Camberwell extension, Central line, Crossrail, Jubilee line, London Underground, Northern line

With Crossrail under construction and extensions to both the Bakerloo and Northern Line being mooted, it seems a pertinent time to provide a brief reminder into some of the whys and wherefores for those less …