New Crossrail train revealed: TfL unveils design for £1bn train fleet with 4G, Wi-Fi and air-con as standard November 20, 2015 Transport for London today unveiled the design of the Crossrail trains that are due to enter service from May 2017. The new trains are being built by Bombardier Transportation's UK factory in Derby. Each train will provide space for 1,500 customers in nine fully-interconnected, air-conditioned, walk-through carriages with 4G and Wi-Fi as standard. (Source: TFL) [...]
Mapped: TfL’s property and land empire ripe for redevelopment – from Tube stations to Thames piers November 18, 2015 Transport for London (TfL) is turning property mogul after identifying 50 locations it will develop into properties for homes and retail over the next decade. Its first planning applications for residential developmets have now been made (at Nine Elms, Northwood and Parsons Green), starting the firing gun on development of the 10m sq ft of [...]
London house prices: TfL files planning applications for its first residential developments at Nine Elms, Northwood and Parsons Green November 18, 2015 Transport for London (TfL) may be best known for signal failures, but London's transport authority also has recently announced plans to branch out into property development. Today it announced where its first developments will be, after it submitted planning applications in Nine Elms, Northwood and Parsons Green. Between them, the three sites will yield more [...]
Travel disruption on London Overground between Willesden Junction and Shepherd’s Bush after digger incident November 16, 2015 A section of the London Overground was shut off this morning, after a digger pulled down overhead wiring on the line over the weekend. There was no service between Willesden Junction and Shepherd's Bush this morning, with Transport for London instead operating a rail replacement bus service between the two stations, in both directions. The bus runs [...]
From Sainsbury’s Christmas advert to the Lord Mayor’s Show 2015: Here’s what got us talking this week November 13, 2015 Boris got into all sorts of bother in Israel. London's saddest skyscraper got given a new lease of life (fingers crossed). And Generation Rent got told to quit their whining. Here's what got us talking this week 1) Are you ready for the Lord Mayor's Show? Today marks the 800th time the procession has been [...]
On one day last month the London Underground carried more passengers than the population of Wales November 13, 2015 Transport for London (TfL) has published passenger statistics for last month showing than on 9 October this year, the Tube carried a record-breaking 4.7 million customers. That's 1.6 times the population of Wales. Thought your commute was getting busier? You're not wrong: according to TfL, the last week of October was the Tube's busiest ever, with [...]
Travel disruption to Southern, Southeastern and Thameslink trains as trespasser between Herne Hill and Denmark Hill halts services November 13, 2015 Southeastern, Southern and Thameslink commuters were being warned to expect disruption to their commute until at least 9am today after a trespasser caused some lines to come to a standstill in south-east London. The person was thought to have been on the track near Denmark Hill and Herne Hill around 8am this morning, affecting services [...]
Eurostar travel disruption after London to Paris ES9050 train collides with boar on the line in France November 11, 2015 Eurostar is sending a rescue train to move the ES9050 London to Paris train, which was stopped when it hit a boar earlier this evening, to Lille. The company will provide an empty train at Lille so that the journey to Paris can be completed. The company said earlier that it was able to re-open one of its [...]
Federation of Small Businesses calls on London councils and TfL to offer free festive parking November 11, 2015 Business lobby group the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is calling on London councils and Transport for London to offer free parking for Christmas shoppers over the festive period. With Small Business Saturday on 5 December, the FSB hopes that the organisations will nix the car parking charges. Half of the FSB’s members said that the [...]
Tube fare hikes have cost Londoners an extra £2,683 each, a new report shows November 11, 2015 Talk about a top-up: Londoners have each spent an additional £2,683 using the London Underground since 2008, thanks to fare hikes. The team behind Labour's London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan crunched the numbers, finding commuters going between Zone 1 and Zone 6 have been charged an extra £2,683 for their monthly travel cards since 2008, compared to a [...]