Old Tube stations could be Re-Opened

Ajit Chambers from The Old London Underground Company has been moved a large step closer to re-opening 26 old abandoned Tube stations . Alt...

London Underground Map for 2015 and 2019

TfL’s proposed Business Plan for the years 2011/12 to 2014/15 and the Budget for 2011/12 are being discussed at a Board Meeting today. In t...

Station Name Pronunciation

You've probably seen a number of ads for Google's voice search for mobile popping up around the London Underground & National Ra...

Limited edition Royal Wedding Oyster cards

TfL are to produce 750,000 special Oyster cards to mark the wedding of Prince William & Kate Middleton. Not only that but two of the th...

Station Whiteboard Message Wars

Looks like Warwick Avenue Tube station has some competition from the guys at Shoreditch High Street station, when it comes to messages on t...

Review of Guide Dog ban on Tube escalators

Did you know that even Guide Dogs aren't allowed to travel on moving escalators on the Tube?  The "dogs must be carried" rule ...

Harry Beck and the Tube Map Exhibition

Your last chance to see a display on the development of the London Underground map. There's a small exhibition at the soon to be closed...

RIP District Dave

David Maloney, the creator of the District Dave London Underground forum passed away last Thursday. Many of you who read this blog will ha...

Underground Music at Brunel Museum

How about some underwater music this weekend? On the 19th and 20th March The Brunel Museum at Rotherhithe will be holding two concerts in i...

Oyster Card Error Messages Explained

A London Underground member of staff at Balham Tube took the trouble to highlight the meaning of several common Oyster Card failure code mes...

Tube Passengers' Question Time with London TravelWatch

On Tuesday 22nd March Howard Collins, Chief Operating Officer of London Underground will be discussing recent Tube performance and you'l...

Tube only ran "good service" one day last year

It's rare that you will see " a good service is operating on all London Underground Lines " signs for a whole day (probably wh...

Tube stations not on the London Underground

Ever heard of Denton Tube station? It has a roundel. It's got a dirty looking train on the platform with some graffiti on it. It's h...

Happy Birthday Bakerloo Line

Today's the Bakerloo Line's 105th Birthday.  The line which ran from  Baker Street to Lambeth North , originally called the "Ba...

New London Bus Pictures - Interior sneak peek

Forgive the rare non Tube post, but last night, The Londoneer & myself were treated to a sneak peek tour of the inside of the new Londo...

24 Hour Tube mooted

The old chestnut of the possiblity of the London Underground running for 24 hours has reared its head again. Firstly as a vote catcher for L...

Acton Depot Open Weekend - When the Tube runs like clockwork

On the 12th and 13th March there's another of the semi regular open weekends of the London Transport Museum Depot at Acton . It's t...

Dogs Must Be Carried

Tube Photo of the Week. Great capture of a lovely dog looking relaxed and pensive while he or she is carried on the London Underground esca...

Fatal Crush - Bethnal Green Tube Disaster Talk

Novelist, Jessica Francis Kane, and London Transport Museum Curator, David Bownes, are giving an illustrated talk next week (Tuesday 8th Mar...