RMT Strike Ballot over Driverless Tube Trains

The RMT have just announced they will ballot their members for strike action  in protest at plans to test driverless trains on the London Un...

TfL help Apple Maps Users

Those people grappling with Apple Maps on the new iOS6 have some sympathy from the staff at Hackney Wick London Overground station.  Apple M...

Underground Orchestra Preview

You may remember I blogged about a Tube orchestra challenge a few months ago.  I'm pleased to say that things seems to be coming along ...

How others see the Tube

Having just got back from Bangkok, I spent some time travelling on the BTS (Skytrain) and Bangkok's Metro system looking at the whole sy...

How the Tube Network Coped with the Olympics

On Tuesday evening, a lecture was held at UCL to look at how the various transport networks coped during the Olympics. The talk was arrang...

Banana peel hazards at Waterloo tube station

Passing through Waterloo tube station yesterday my eye was drawn to this hazard just in front of the doors on the platform. I'm not sure...

Weekend closures resume on the London Underground

Now that the Olympics are over, the Tube and Overground networks start to return to more conventional working. The smiling happy faces he...

Death Line on the London Underground

The tube network has been the venue for a good many films over the years, including quite famously An American Werewolf in London - where...

The tube map - as a radio circuit board

Oh look, yet another variant of the London Underground tube map, how tediou.... oh, my goodness, that one's rather good! An "artist...

Vintage film explains how to use automatic ticket machines

What links elevator music, a dozen or more fonts, garish colours and dubious fashions? Why, an information film from London Transport in 19...

Two opportunities to see some vintage tube posters

Next month, the auction house Christies is to sell off around 300 posters from the "golden age" of advertising by London Transport...

Two heritage train trips on the Underground this month

Once the Olympics are out of the way, for tube heritage fans, there will be two opportunities to sate your hunger this month - one this comi...