Great new piece over on the London Reconnection website, explaining how the pre-Crossrail that will be Crossrail service between Shenfield and Liverpool Street will be branded as ‘TFL Rail’.  We couldn’t resist…

TfL Rail

There’s a new tube map out, and whilst we don’t know what changes have been made to the map itself yet, the cover art has been updated (as usual) and this time has been done by artist Rachel Whiteread.

Rachel Whiteread Map

Lots of these posters at stations today all around the network remembering Bob Crow whose funeral was today.

Bob Crow

Last trains of the are almost always a good way of seeing different train movements that you don’t normally get during the regular day service, or I find it’s always fun to be on a train that gets ‘lamped out’. Or you’ll often last thing on the tube see a yellow battery-powered maintenance loco come trundling through a station, but here’s something I hadn’t seen before.

Travelling home on the 00:09 last Victoria Line train out of Walthamstow to Brixton, some rather unusual passengers got on at Seven Sisters – a whole gang of maintenance engineers – who’d obviously decided that the fastest way to get their gear to tonight’s job was to take it on a passenger train with them!

Lots of large pieces of scary looking tools and machinery got loaded on, whilst the driver had to wait many seconds longer than he normally would until they signalled to him that they were all clear … and they went one stop to Finsbury Park, where they took a good minute to unload it all again.

Victoria Machinery