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Overground at Clapham Junction

18th May 2015

We caught an Overground train from Clapham Junction yesterday, and obviously by default found ourselves instinctively walking towards Platforms 1 and 2 where Overground trains always depart from.

Except not always though, because an eagle-eyed companion of ours spotted that oddly the train was scheduled to leave from Platform 17 – on completely the other side of the station – where Southern trains that run up through Shepherds Bush often come through.

We’d never seen this before and wondered how often it occurs – and why. Was there a problem with Platform 1, was it for driver/route knowledge or training … or some other reason? We’d love to know.

Overground from Platform 17

This post categorised under: Overground
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Data Analysed Tube Map

16th May 2015

Now this – we love! We heard from Matt Hoffbrand this week who presented us with a Tube map made up from words – a bit like when you see a mashup of words on a particular topic all put together, and the more popular words appear in a larger front. So we’re assuming here that ‘BANK‘ appears nice and big, because it IS the busiest interchange on the network.

Matt told us that like many he “loves the tube map visual style – and just wanted to add a bit of creativity to it – I had trouble doing Bank, but once that connected up everything else made sense!”

Matt makes more of these (he’s a Data Analyst by trade) and you’ll find them over on his Twitter feed.

Tube Pixels

This post categorised under: Alternative Tube Maps
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Down Street Disused ‘Ghost’ Station

14th May 2015

Station Master Geoff for Londonist got to go down Down Street station the other week, and here’s the video that was produced – inside an abandoned station!

This post categorised under: Disused Stations / Video
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New Santander Cycles App launched

11th May 2015

Boris Bikes have been around for a few years now, but only today do they now have an official App.

The App is Available on the App Store for free.

It shows you where the nearest docking station is along with availability, but also lets your hire out a bike and get an access code from the App – without needing to use the docking stations terminal screen.

It then lets you plan a journey and give you suggested routes which is a nice touch, as well as notifications about how much time you’ve been on a bike for.

This post categorised under: Cycle Hire
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Tube Life Hacks

9th May 2015

There’s a new YouTube channel – City Hacks London – where the people behind it have made a fun video about ‘hacks’ on the Tube. They got in touch with us to ask if they could use some of our 3D maps – and so we said yes! Have a watch of this fun video full of shortcuts on the Tube …

This post categorised under: Fun / Video
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Behind the scenes at Bond Street

6th May 2015

Bond Street is having a major station upgrade with a new entrance, escalators, and lifts being installed – separate from the Crossrail works taking place. Station Masters Geoff and Matt got to go down and have a look …

This post categorised under: Upgrades / Video
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New Timetables

5th May 2015

The new timetables for the Overground services to/from Chingford, Cheshunt and Enfield Town are finally online, and inside them there’s a new London Overground Network Map.

Still no sign of the Tube-map-proper, but it’s coming, it’s coming …

Overground Network

This post categorised under: Overground
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Secrets of the Overground

1st May 2015

Station Master Geoff has finally gone Orange … onto the Overground, with a new ‘Secrets…’ video. It’s Part 1 of a two part series!

This post categorised under: Overground / Video
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Shepherd’s Bush Map

30th April 2015

We submitted the latest version of Station Master to Apple for review yesterday – now with quite a few more 3D maps added of London Overground stations. We’ll probably get them all done just in time for when all the new Overground stations open at the end of May, and then we’re in a dilemma about what to do, and if we add them or not …

Anyway, Shepherd’s Bush has had its new map put in too, as it has a new entrance and footbridge at the northern end of the platforms, it now look like this …

Shepherd’s Bush Overground

This post categorised under: 3D Maps / App update
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Down Down Street

29th April 2015

Yesterday, we got to pop down into Down Street. A video for Londonist is coming, but in the meantime, some stills from the video that we quite like.

Oh, and London Reconnections has an extensive write-up, IanVisits with some lovely photos.and the BBC a piece on the commercial venture which is why we all got to go down there in the first place.

A complete set of photos from the video shoot is on Flickr here.