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• Tube power maintenance workers walk out

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Electrical maintenance workers on London Underground are to strike for four days from Tuesday in a dispute over pay.
  13 hours ago

• Tube Lines fury over £1.35bn funding shortfall

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Fresh questions have been raised over the modernisation of London Underground after the regulator made a draft decision that Tube Lines would require £4.4bn over the next 7½-year control period - £1.35bn less than it wanted.
  4 days ago

• Mystic Wolmar on the ball. Tube Lines not.

  
  Railway Eye - the railway blog — Authority: 140
  Telegrammed by our International Correspondent Mystic Wolmars crystal ball is working well these days. On the 13th December he predicted the demise of Tube Lines, the other half of the dead and rotting PPP Siamese twin, Metrodebt. Lo and behold today Regulator Bolt obliged, favouring LULs projected £4 ...
  4 days ago

• Tube Lines loses chief executive Dean Finch amid funding row

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  London Underground contractor Tube Lines has lost its chief executive on the eve of a major funding announcement after National Express said it had poached Dean Finch to run the transport group.
  5 days ago

• Riding the last ever fully circular circle line train

  
  IanVisits - The Blog — Authority: 463
  On Sunday morning, the Circle Line uncurled slightly into a spiral, and to commemorate the death of the circle, a small group decided to take the very last ever train to run right round the whole circle line on the prior Saturday night. Starting at Tower Hill and looping round the network back to Tower Hill about an ...
  5 days ago

• December 15 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 550
  On December 15: 37 Nero , Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty , was born. 1791  The United States Bill of Rights became law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly . 1832 Gustave Eiffel , French engineer and architect (Eiffel tower), was born. 1863 The mountain ...
  1 week ago

• TfL draws up plans to take over Tube Lines

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Underground contractor facing crunch finance decision as its projects descend into shambles, writes Andrew Gilligan
  1 week ago

• Daily View 2×2: 11 December 2009

  
  Liberal Democrat Voice — Authority: 508
  Welcome to December 11th – only 20 days to go until the end of the year. Four years ago today the top story was the fire at the Buncefield oil depot which injured 43 people and was said to have been the biggest fire of its kind in peacetime Europe. 2 Must-Read Blog Posts What are other Liberal Democrat bloggers ...
  1 week ago

• The Typography Of The London Underground

  
  Anorak News — Authority: 616
  THE London Undergound typogrpahy is a joy to star and stare and stare at. Here’s a piece about how the typeface for the London Underground came to be: “We continue to make subtle changes” Ashworth admits, “but we’re very wary about doing too much and are always happy to roll back changes if they end up ...
  1 week ago

• LU leads way in motivating staff to communicate

  
  Railway Eye - the railway blog — Authority: 140
  This from bitterwallet with a bowler tip to Is 1A03 out of Chester yet, Bert The platform announcer at Farringdon refused to stop talking for nearly half an hour, giving a blow-by-blow account of what was occurring. Follow the link to hear it in all its glory. The guys a natural - who needs The X Factor?
  1 week ago

• London Underground Cut Jobs

  
  PJH Law - Employment Law Blog — Authority: 133
  The RMT claims to have obtained a copy of the London Underground’s spending review, which reportedly proposes the closure of 144 ticket offices throughout the underground. Manned offices will be replaced by ticket machines. This will result in an estimated loss of 1,200 jobs.
  1 week ago

• Just £7.99 for Pocket Tube Map - Gadgets

  
  My Bloggerings — Authority: 160
  £7.99 Info / Buy Product Information Keep London in your pocket, a credit-card sized etched steel map of the London Underground... I Want One Of Those Information Just £7.99 for for the Pocket Tube Map from I Want One Of Those is excellent bang for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mayor of London Launches Fund to Help Londoners Grow Their Own Food

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has launched a £150,000 fund to help Londoners grow their own food in under-used areas of the capital. He also welcomed Transport for London to the Capital Growth scheme, which is run by London Food Link and has a target to create 2,012 growing spaces by 2012 in discarded patches ...
  2 weeks ago

• London’s Oyster card may send the iconic tube map underground

  
  disassociated.com — Authority: 146
  The Oyster card – which allows holders to blend whatever modes of public transport they choose in London – could bring about the demise of the iconic London Underground tube map as designers struggle to find a way to incorporate all of London’s public transport systems onto one – easy to comprehend – ...
  2 weeks ago

• How bad is the “Tube”?

  
  UK News — Authority: 469
  News that London Underground suffers from terrible problems with overcrowding probably not really going to surprise many commuters. From unbearable heat or the sweaty odours emanating from fellow passengers during the summer months, to being unceremoniously poked with umbrellas in the winter, travellers on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reliving Wuthering Heights

  
  The Year Zero — Authority: 125
  This morning I left home at 7.15am to be instantly confronted by heavy, driving, squally rain – gigantic puddles and a cold, biting wind. This, in pitch black – the joys of living in Northern Europe in winter. It was a most unpleasant 12 minute power-walk to the station. It also became quite readily apparent that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fury of 7/7 relatives as bombers share same inquests

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 546
  RELATIVES of the 52 people killed in the 7/7 London bombings reacted with anger yesterday after they were told the inquests will also include the legal examination of the deaths of the four suicide bombers who killed them. Lady Justice Hallett, the specially appointed coroner, said that the long delayed hearings ...
  3 weeks ago

• Catch the last fully circular Circle Line train

  
  IanVisits - The Blog — Authority: 463
  As I am betting you are probably aware, the Circle Line is shortly to be uncoiled and turned into something that is still called a circle, but is most certainly not. As with most changes on the train networks, there is inevitably a moment of handover from old to new. I’ve been having a thought, and decided that it ...
  3 weeks ago

• When is a Circle not a Circle?

  
  The Daily Dust | UK News | Good News — Authority: 485
  London Underground changes Circle Line to a Tadpole. For those of you who used to sit on the Circle Line and revise for your exams, grabbing a coffee every time you past Victoria (I’m looking at you Gyles Brandreth!), those times are long gone.   The Circle Line is no longer a circle . Trains will now stop ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tube Lines chief executive Dean Finch admits it will miss Jubilee Line deadline and faces £100m bill

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Dean Finch the chief executive of Tube Lines has admitted it will miss the deadline for the upgrade of the Jubilee Line by almost a year with the extra costs of about £100m a concern to the company.
  4 weeks ago

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