So You Think You Know London? Best Of London, Secret | By: N Quentin Woolf Londonist Out Loud: So You Think You Know London? Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. In this episode, Londonist’s own Editor-at-Large, Matt Brown, is the guest, telling us why everything we think we […]
Unbuilt London: The “figure of eight” tube line. There should be a major train junction under Oxford Circus acting as the centre point of a large double-loop tube line, had plans shown off in 1988 gone ahead. The £2.3 billion figure-of-eight tube line would have largely doubled the capacity of much of the existing Circle […]
We missed this one! – The art of mapping London’s transport networks – Ian Visits The “Mapping London” exhibition was put on for TfL staff, to show off the development of mapping London’s various transport networks, and how planning is both driven by mapping, but how maps can change customer behaviour. For a couple of […]
Tube passengers air their biggest gripes including not taking your backpack off and annoyingly leaning against the pole. Londoners have aired their biggest gripes about the Tube, including people not taking their backpacks off, and leaning against the pole in the middle of carriages. A frustrated commuter called Katie took to Reddit to complain: “People travelling on the […]
An S-Bahn is a type of suburban rail network with a bigger footprint than a traditional metro, which links a city to its outer suburbs and inner commuter towns. The name is an abbreviation of the German: in various cities across the German-speaking world, you’ll find Schnellbahns (“fast trains”), Stadtbahns (“city trains”) or Stadtschnellbahn (“fast […]
Here’s something really fun to do, go on… get your tickets now! London Transport Museum’s collection originated in the 1920s, when the London General Omnibus Company decided to preserve two Victorian horse buses and an early motorbus for future generations. Source: Hidden London – London Transport Museum
The Londonist’s don’t like it, but there’s something interesting about when the producers of these things get it a little bit wrong! Better not risk the DLR. Source: The Worst Tube Map We’ve Ever Seen | Londonist
Walk – Bus – Tube – Train – Metro – Walk – Smoke – Drink – Walk – Metro – Train – Tube – Bus – Walk – Home – Sleep The new route from the Channel Tunnel rail service is due to start in April. Source: Eurostar launches London-Amsterdam route – BBC News
New images show the progress of a huge £600 million revamp of Bank Station which will see 1,500 metres of tunnels created 27 metres under the City of London. New pathways will be created to simplify the “spaghetti maze” of tunnels used by 52 million commuters every year. A new entrance to Bank station will […]
The first Elizabeth line Tube roundels have been installed at stations across the capital. New images have been released of the purple TfL signs at Custom House, Farringdon and Tottenham Court Road stations ahead of Crossrail’s launch in December. The line, named in honour of Queen Elizabeth II, will open in phases just before Christmas […]