Canary Wharf Group contributes £150m to Crossrail and will design and build Isle of Dogs station http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/10895.aspx A sum of £350m of the station's £500m costs will be met from Crossrail's £15.9bn budget with Canary Wharf Group (CWG) bearing the risk in relation to costs above the fixed price limit. With final planning approval received by CWG,...

For the first time I am going to buy an annual season on Jan 1st to beat the fare increase. I just need a Zone 1 and 2 travelcard in London which I should really pick up from LU at my local station, Canada Water. I believe that qualifies me for a Gold Card with all the usual perks. However, before I invest this not inconsiderable sum of money, I was wondering that if I bought an Oyster...

This is a bit of a rant but I thought it was worth to mention anyway. At Paddington for the Circle line when you are going towards South Kensington / Victoria you never get more than 1 minutes notice as to when the next train arrives. The reason for this is that until the train reaches Edgware Road the very old signalling describer system cannot tell the information board when the next train...

Hi, what time does the district line close?? I'm planning to visit London to attend a football match on late February and I was told to get off at fulham broadway to get to the Chelsea's stadium. The thing is, I'd like to get the train back to my hotel when the match is over (10pm?) in order not to bump up into "strange" ppl asking for trouble... thanks ever so much

I complained before that they had slightly broken the route planning.... well now they have completely broken it! The map shows a blue line which wanders from start to finish without particularly matching any roads.... and whereas the itinerary used to list road names (with a fair number of errors), now it gives Turn LEFT (West) onto Local road(s) 0.6 mi Turn RIGHT (North) onto Local road(s)...

Nunhead station only has one entry/exit point, on Gibbon Road. However, when getting off at Nunhead yesterday, I noticed that there seems to be another, blocked, entry/exit point at the western end of the platform, which presumably exited onto Evelina Road. Just wondered (a) was there ever a second entrance; (b) if so, did it come out on to Evelina Road; (c) when was it shut; (d) why was it...

This URl needs no introduction... http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/london_from_above_at_night.html

On Dec 19, 6:02*pm, Mizter T wrote: On 19 Dec, 16:53, MIG wrote: On 19 Dec, 16:30, Mizter T wrote: (snip)

On 19 Dec, 16:53, MIG wrote: On 19 Dec, 16:30, Mizter T wrote: (snip) The explanation for the Southeastern ticket office being able to sell Oyster products (which is a much more recent innovation) is surely the simple one of demand. Southeastern were willing to do so (and earn the resultant commission), and the DLR and...

On 17 Dec, 13:52, Uncle-C wrote: I've been checking the various long distance TOC websites ( *NXEC and Arriva XC) and there seems to be no mention of any ticket restrictions being lifted over the Christmas period. *Being the season of good will and all that I had hoped for some festive cheer. Anyone know to the contrary or will they announce any lifting of...

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ Not as good on Earth as Google Earth, and doesn't include the night sky at all, but does include Venus, Mars, The Moon and Jupiter.

I've noticed these being put up at Wood Green and Finsbury Park over the last week - they're big grey metal panels which seem to be having a white layer put on top Are these for moving projected adverts?

On Nov 22, 12:37*pm, MIG wrote: On Nov 22, 8:27*pm, CJB wrote: The Bakerloo line now stops at Harrow & Wealdstone. However some north bound stations still have old enamelled signs with stations beyond blanked out. What were these stations, and did the deep-level trains run through or was there an interchange somewhere for...

On 23 Nov, 18:54, "Jonathan Morton" wrote: Did I dream this, or is there currently talk of re-instating the Bakerloo service to WJ? In short, several years ago when the takeover of Silverlink/London Overground by TfL was originally being planned, TfL proposed a major service reconfiguration that excluded reextending the Bakerloo to Watford and...

I've noticed that on the sides of the bendys on route 18, the stickers telling PAYG users to touch in have had the stickers that are usually on the assault screens placed over them. This would imply that all Oystercard users on route 18 have to touch in. Does anyone know if this is in fact the case?

Greetings. Today I received the following e-mail from TfL. I was wondering if everyone on their mailing list got this message, or if they sent it only to those people whose Oyster card data shows regular trips to Stratford. Does anyone know if TfL uses Oyster travel data to target its mailings in this manner? Regards, Tristan

Had a view of the District Line track replacement works between Barking and Upminster yeaterday, from a passing c2c service. I was wondering what short of length they can do in a weekend, and if the renewed track is basically done to the same standards as NR use, eg sleeper spacing, ballast depth etc. I noticed the same orange tubing guarding cables in the four foot for instance. If...

On 13 Dec, 20:40, "Paul Scott" wrote: "Jonathan Stott" wrote: For the first time in a while I made the journey from Bournemouth to Brockenhurst in the daylight. I noticed what appear to be some sort of gadgets stuck on top of a short post that look suspiciously like touchpads for smartcards. I saw them next to the...

I've just had an email referring to plans to move the Stratford London Overground platforms from 2009/01/02. I phoned the number given in that leaflet to ask what was planned for the current platforms. It seems they will be used for a DLR extension. The person who answered was not able to answer my next question: will the Main Ticket Hall and the Jubilee Line Concourse be joined on the...

Had a call from Barclays fraud department yesterday "Have you used your card in the last few minutes?" "No". Turns out that Barclays had highlighted my Oyster auto-renew as potential fraud. A quick check on my email and I saw the fail to collect money email. You'd have thought they'd have known who it was .. although I think TfL were using "Autoload" as the name on the transaction. Would...