London Transport News

More trains and new journey options in new Elizabeth Line timetable After its first year of operations, services on the Elizabeth are set to increase in frequency and introduce a new range of journey options from 21st May.

The DLR could be extended London's worst connected neighbourhood could finally get a train line

A police officer directs passengers to an alternative entrance at Piccadilly Circus station due to overcrowding - 1956.

Gants Hill station, like another two new stations on the post-war Central Line extension, was designed by architect Charles Holden in the 1930s.

During the 1930s the London Passenger Transport Board had provided advice on the construction of the Moscow Metro and an internal report in 1935 by the Underground's engineers on the Soviet system led to the decision to construct a station in London to a similar design.

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Bakers Arms" PH (on left) in Lea Bridge Road c1909.

Vintage photo - Metropolitan Railway Locomotive

London Motor Buses at the Bank c1911

You can still see a bit of the old Victorian brickwork at Westminster tube station, on the westbound platform (hence easier to see on the eastbound)

Vintage image of London - The Re-building Of Piccadilly Circus Underground Station. 1926

Vintage photo - East Ham railway station

Chelsea and Fulham railway station opened in 1863 and closed in 1940.

The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham has the most league/premier football clubs than any other local authority (three) and you’d have to worry about the fate of those big metal signs on match days.

It was situated on the West London Railway, a railway which had been built on the bed of the former Kensington Canal. The canal had replaced the natural waterway, Counter’s Creek and Stamford Bridge was a bridge over that stream