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New tunnel opens at King’s Cross station

New tunnel opens at King’s Cross station

London Underground

Combined Tube and Southern strike action to set up Christmas chaos CityAM

Blue Peter winner’s poster encourages visitors to travel on London Underground BBC

Armed cops to travel on London’s underground for first time Xinhua

The much delayed project to build a footbridge between Chiswick Business Park and Chiswick Park tube station is not yet underway, ChiswickW4

Just outside Epping tube station, there’s an old tube train rusting away, but this locomotive is the remains of an odd development in tube history. IanVisits

Staff shortages forced Highbury and Islington Underground station to shut three times in the space of nine days over August. Islington Gazette

A fail-safe track switch design developed by Loughborough University will be trialled on the London Underground in 2018, Global Rail News

Crossrail / Elizabeth Line

Costain has scrapped a digital payment method on the Crossrail scheme after workers were not being paid for all the hours they worked. Construction

TfL Rejects Virgin Media Claims That Crossrail Won’t Have Wi-Fi & 4G TechWeekEurope

No TfL Rail trains will run between Brentwood and Shenfield for five months in 2017 as the final stage of Crossrail is completed. EssexLive

Heathrow is taking the rail watchdog to court after it blocked the airport’s attempt to impose an estimated £40m annual charge on the new Crossrail service. The Times (£)

Mainline/Overground

New rail link between Heathrow and Waterloo via stations in Hounslow called for by Feltham MP Get West London

Network Rail plans to transform Camberwell arches into cafes Southwark News

London Luton Airport receives backing for improved London rail links Passenger Terminal Today

At least 30 East Croydon trains are cancelled as ‘short notice sickness’ affects Southern network Croydon Advertiser

A campaign is calling for improvements to one of the key commuter routes in the East of England, linking Cambridge and London. ITV

Miscellaneous

House prices in East Croydon are stalling due to Southern Rail’s ongoing crisis, research claims Croydon Advertiser

Are parties on the Tube the future of British clubbing? Vice

Police are appealing for information after a woman wearing a hijab was racially abused on an Overground train. Newham Recorder

How the Trainline wants to turn rail travel on its head The Telegraph

London’s bars and clubs have seen sales rise after the start of the Night Tube on London’s Underground, according to data from payment specialist Worldpay. Bar Magazine

Is the best people watching in the world on London’s Tube? Australian Times

And finally, a team of residents is hoping to restore the unused Victorian rail bridge spanning the Thames between Barnes and Chiswick ChiswickW4

The image above is from Sept 2014: New tunnel opens at King’s Cross station

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5 comments
  1. GT says:

    WHERE IS that tunnel?
    I can’t find it

  2. TJBJ says:

    It’s at Kings Cross Underground Stn. Look for the signs to Regents Canal. It’s also not new – opened a while back. Must be an error in the article.

    • Ian Visits says:

      It’s not an error, I always link to an old article for the headline photos — you can read the article by clicking on the photo, or the explanatory link at the bottom of the news roundup.

  3. Victoria Line says:

    Really, is gentrified arches for the hipster crowd the best use of Southwark’s ‘taxpayers’ money. Shouldn’t the council be lobbying for a re-opening of Camberwell station?

    The Trainline should fix it’s abysmal apps. Each iteration is worst than the last. I keep asking why there is no Oyster/contactless fare information, but never get an answer.

  4. GT says:

    Sorry, misunderstanding.
    I use KGX / StP a lot, but “that” multi-light tunnel” is nowhere to be seen from anywhere between the two main stations, as far as I can see, either in the subway or surface.
    Um, err ….

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