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Ten Years On …

7th July 2015
 

Today is the tenth anniversary of the terrorist bombs that hit London – and the Underground network, back on the 7th July 2005.

TfL have announced that there will be a one-minutes silence across the network at 11.30am – Not quite sure how that’s going to work on trains in tunnels, but we’re sure it will be brilliantly observed at all stations across the network.

The BBC news website has been posting some amazing stories and coverage from people still obviously affected by the event ten years ago.

Memorial

Memorial

 

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Tube Strike this week?

4th July 2015
 

With the unions up in arms about the Night Tube service scheduled to start in September, there is the potential of a complete tube strike on Wednesday of this week, starting in the afternoon and going on into Thursday.

If that is the case, then it’s likely ALL tube service will not run. And whilst you make think that Overground, DLR and TfL Rail service will still run – they will, but there are stations on the network that are managed by London Underground and will most likely be affected in that they won’t be open!

This could affect :  West Ham, Stratford, Canning Town, Blackhorse Road, Queens Park to Harrow and Wealdstone, Highbury, Whitechapel, Canada Water and Bank.

julystrike

This post categorised under: Tube
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South Ken Colours

30th June 2015
 

One of favourite facts on the Secrets of the District Line is that the colours painted onto the pillars at South Kensington tube station match the three lines that run there – Green, Yellow and Blue for the District, Circle and Piccadilly.

Even better is that Green was at the top and Blue at the bottom to match the fact that District is subsurface, and the Piccadilly is deep tube level down below.

Which is why why we found it disturbing to note that a couple of weeks ago they’d all been painted white … as a primer? Ok, maybe they’re just getting a new lick of paint, but now they’re starting to be painted at the green colour is now at the bottom of the pillars which is not where it was before!  We shall keep an eye on this closely to see what happens …

South Ken Coloured Pillars

South Ken Coloured Pillars

This post categorised under: Tiling Patterns
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New Embankment Shops

27th June 2015
 

The remodelling at Embankment station looks like it’s nearly finished, with two of the new three retail outlets, now open. We’re still reckoning that the third one will be an M&S Simply Food, but in the meantime there’s now a Paperchase and an Oliver Bonas … the latter of which we have never heard of before!

Embankment Retail

Embankment Retail

This post categorised under: Infrastructure
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Disused Tube App

24th June 2015
 

Our new App is out … today! Introducing Disused Tube.

There are over 50 old Tube stations in London, and we’ve listed them all; where they are, why they closed, what you can still see today – along with a Disused Tube map, audio descriptions for each one, and also two walking tour maps that will guide you if want to to hit the streets on your feet and go and find them yourself.

You can download the App here (it works on the iPhone as well as the iPad – on which it looks great) and learn about where London’s disused Tube stations are!

(With huge thanks to to Mark Noad for the exclusive design of the Abandoned Stations Map, have a look at his website for other alternative tube map designs.)

Articles about this also over on Londonist, and Metro Online too.

Disused Tube Map

Disused Tube Map

 

This post categorised under: App update / Disused Stations
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New Night Tube Map

22nd June 2015
 

A new Night Tube map has been released by TfL this morning … but it took a while for the correct version to come to the surface. When the Night Tube was announced last year, there was a map that came with it – a simple variation on the regular map with a white background showing the five lines that will be running.

A press release and story this morning announcing a ‘new’ Night Tube map, was using the same old map that had already been put out in September of last year. The Evening Standard ran with the existing version (calling it a ‘First Look’), until about an hour later, when it transformed into what IS actually a new Night Tube Map! Which looks like this …

Click Image for Larger Version

Night Tube Map

Night Tube Map

This post categorised under: Map / Night Tube
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No Victoria Line during August

18th June 2015
 

This one has been planned for a while now, but the carriage stickers in the trains have now all been updated to reflect that there will be no Victoria line between Seven Sisters and Walthamstow between the 8th and 30th of August.

The work is to allow a renewal of a crossover at Walthamstow which at the moment means only 24 trains an hour can run – after the works, the Victoria line will be able to run 36 trains per hour in the peak – that’s one every 100 seconds. You can read the full TfL Press Release here, but it does mean that once complete, more trains will run to Walthamstow too.

Replacement buses are running throughout the duration of the works, hence the pecked blue line on the carriage maps!

No Victoria line

No Victoria line

This post categorised under: Engineering
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5721

12th June 2015
 

Reports of C-Stock unit 5721 – which was preserved – being sold off to an East End Office and used as a waiting area, aren’t what they seem.  The unit is safe and sound at the Acton Depot …

The unit at the Relay Building has had the number ‘5721’ painted on it (in non standard font) but isn’t the preserved unit! And everyone calm down …

Unit 5721

Unit 5721

This post categorised under: History / Tube
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New Moorgate

11th June 2015
 

The blue hoardings that have been up on the platforms at Moorgate station for ages finally came down this week to reveal new staircases, and a new entrance to Moorgate station. The old ticket hall entrance on Moorfields with its gateline disappeared ages ago, but now as part of the Crossrail works, it’s completely gone and been replaced with something temporary as a new enlarged ticket hall for Crossrail and the Metropolitan Line platforms is built here.

Here’s a shot of the temporary steps that take you down, and lead down to the eastbound sub-surface platforms, there’s another temporary staircase across a footbridge down to the westbound platforms.   There’s also a new entrance/exit out onto Fore Street – something that suspect shall be retained when the new Crossrail ticket hall opens.  We’ll have an updated 3D map shortly …

New Moorgate

New Moorgate

This post categorised under: Crossrail / Upgrades
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Pay for travel the Apple way

9th June 2015
 
Apple Pay

Apple Pay

So with Apple confirming that Apple Pay is coming to the UK next month (July 2015), TfL confirmed in a press release that you’ll be able to use Apple Pay to travel on TfL services.

This means you’ll be able to tap your iPhone 6, 6 Plus or Apple Watch against a yellow Oyster pad, and pay for your travel that way.

“TfL was the first public transport provider to accept contactless payment cards and will continue this record of innovation by becoming the first to accept Apple Pay. TfL developed the contactless technology needed to travel on its services in-house and is leading the way with over 100 million contactless journeys made on its services since it launched in September 2014.”

TfL Press Release here. Lifehacker article.

 

 

This post categorised under: Oyster
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