London Public Transport
Specific information on public transportation in London
London Underground Strike
If you’re coming to London this week be aware that there’s a three day strike by workers on the London Underground which started last night. As of this morning there is no service on the Bakerloo, Circle, Central, District, East London, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, Victoria and Waterloo & City Lines.
There’s a partial service on the Piccadilly Line although its suspended between Hyde Park Corner and Northfields/Uxbridge. The Piccadilly Line goes to Heathrow terminals 1, 2, 3 and 4
Date: September 4th, 2007 |
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British Airways Contact Information
A lot of people seem to be having problems with British Airways this summer, specifically with bags being mislaid or lost in transit when travelling through Heathrow. It can be hard work trying to track them down and get help from the relevant people. Here are some numbers and addresses you might need if your bags don’t turn up at your destination.
British Airways - UK
General Enquires Tel:0870 850 9 850
Date: July 25th, 2007 |
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Platform Art
London Underground has an art programme called Platform for Art where new designs and artistic work are displayed around the city’s Tube stations.
Among the current run of exhibitions are Piccadilly’s Peccadilloes, a series of 12 new photographs commissioned specially for Heathrow Terminal 4 Tube station ticket hall, taken by German photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg of details of the front of 12 of the classic stations designed by Charles Holden. This is running until November 2007.
Date: July 17th, 2007 |
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Keeping London Undergound cool
Anyone who’s travelled on the London Undeground during the summer months knows how hot and stuffy it can get hundreds of feet below ground, especially on packed trains or narrow platforms crowded with passengers. The Mayor of London and the Managing Director of the Tube have been detailing the short and long term plans to try and bring some relief from the worst of the heat on the Underground.
The mayor said that £150million will be spent over the next few years on cooling the Underground system and that first full-scale trial of the award-winning groundwater cooling project will take place at Victoria Tube station.
Date: May 29th, 2007 |
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Walk to Work Day in London
Today is London Walk to Work Day, part of the Walking Works campaign that’s run by the Living Streets charity and sponsored by the Mayor of London and Tranpsort for London.
Walking works, public tranport doesn’t, a cynic might say and while walking around London is great if you have time, I’m not so sure people are going to be as relaxed and stress free arriving at work after a long walk as the campaign suggests, a lot of the central London streets are as crowded as the Underground below.
Date: April 26th, 2007 |
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Where to get your Oyster card
The number of places in London where you can buy Oyster cards is going to double in the next year according to the Mayor. The pre-pay cards let you add money or travelcards onto them and you touch in and out on a card reader when using a bus or entering and leaving Underground stations.
To encourage their take up the Mayor and Transport for London have made paying by cash almost twice as expensive for a lot of journeys as it would be by using the Oyster card.
Date: July 31st, 2007 |
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Main Central London Railway Station Locations
For more information please see the main London Railway Stations page.
Charing Cross
Tel:0207 8392576
South Eastern Ticket Info Trains Tel:08706 030405
Southern Trains Ticket Info Tel:0845 123 7770
Address: Station Manager’s office, Charing Cross station, The Strand, London, WC2 5HS - Map
Opening hours
Mon-Sat 4.30am-00.48am, Sun 6.30am-00.48am
Date: July 23rd, 2007 |
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New ways to keep the Tube cool
The Evening Standard has a story on a new method to keep Tube passengers cool that Transport for London(TfL) is trying out. London’s Underground trains and stations can get very hot and humid in the summer months and TfL is spending around £150million on research and development of ways to ease the conditions for passengers.
With most Underground lines too old and narrow to have air conditioning equipment fitted the latest idea is to install refrigeratred blocks of ice under seats to cool the air in the carriage. The technique hasn’t been used before and is on trail at the moment. It involves the refrigerated tanks of ice being
Date: June 5th, 2007 |
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London pickpocket gang jailed
This trio of miscreants, left to right Simona Feraru, Liviu Feraru, Daniela Cutarida, are a gang of professional pickpockets from Romania, jailed this week for ten months for stealing bank cards at Finsbury Park and Embankment stations this year. In one case Liviu Feraru watched a victim withdraw money from a cash machine noting the card PIN number, then the two women used a Tube map to distract the woman while stealing her card.
Date: May 10th, 2007 |
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These boots are made for.....hanging upside down on the Tube?
London Underground is not too impressed with Dutch designer Eelko Moorer. He’s designed a pair of boots that have a slot carved into the heel so that passengers on the Tube can hang upside down from the handrails.
His idea that ‘I like to make objects that give the user a sense of release, to experience animalistic behaviour using the environment they are already in’, hasn’t had the best feed back from the Tube whose spokesman said ‘this is a dangerous and stupid act that could result in serious injury to not only the individual concerned but also other passengers.’
They might be fun to use on a late night journey when you have the train to yourself, but try it during the day in central London and your head would be used as a pinata by other passengers knees.
The girl in the picture testing the boots out is Mr Moorer’s girlfriend
Date: April 25th, 2007 |
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