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Mayor of London visits new accessible ticket hall at Bank Underground station, as major upgrade completes

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, visited the new ticket hall at Bank Underground station today (Monday 27 February), marking the completion of its major £700 million upgrade. The new entrance on Cannon Street gives customers easy access –...

Mayor of London visits Beckton depot to see the first new, state-of-the-art DLR train

Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, and Andy Lord, London’s Transport Commissioner, visited Beckton Depot this morning (Wednesday 8 February) to see the first of 54 new, state-of-the-art DLR trains that promise to provide thousands of customers with more...

TV documentary to find more Secrets of the London Underground in the new third series

UKTV has commissioned a third series of Secrets of the London Underground (10x60’) for its leading factual channel, Yesterday. Produced by Brown Bob, the previous two series have proved very popular with Yesterday viewers. The first series in July 2021 became Yesterday's...

The transformational Elizabeth line clocks more than one hundred million passenger journeys

The Elizabeth line, which stretches from Reading and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east, has now seen more than one hundred million journeys since opening in May 2022. Transport for London (TfL) data...

London Underground Celebrates 160 Years

Today (10 January) marks 160 years since the first Tube journey took place between Paddington and Farringdon stations, on what was then the Metropolitan Railway. To mark this milestone birthday, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan met with four...

Three more London Underground stations begin offering high-speed mobile coverage to customers with three more going live in the next week

A further six London Underground stations will begin offering high-speed mobile coverage to customers, as the next stage of Transport for London (TfL) and BAI Communications’ (BAI) project to bring coverage to the Tube network gathers speed.  Customers travelling between Holland...

New analysis shows that pay as you go with mobile on the Tube now more popular than before the pandemic

More people are using contactless via a mobile phone or smart watch to travel on the London Underground than they were prior to the pandemic, new analysis by Transport for London (TfL) has revealed. The new figures show that in a...

Next milestone in the Bank station upgrade is completed, with the opening of another new interchange route

Customers using Bank station now have another new interchange route designed to make journeys quicker and easier with the opening of two new 100-metre moving walkways and three new escalators between the Northern and Central lines.    The opening of the...

Brand new Bond Street Elizabeth line station brings a modern classical design and thought-provoking artwork

Station design is influenced by the local, historic context, lifting the user experience through a civic architecture and providing new connections into and through the West EndStriking art installations from renowned British artist Darren Almond The new Bond Street Elizabeth...

Bond Street’s new Elizabeth line station now open

The doors to the brand-new Bond Street Elizabeth line station have opened today, marking the completion of the last new station on the transformational new railway. Bond Street station is set to further radically improve travel across London and...

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Northern to switch to new rail timetable coming next month

Trains across the North of England will switch to a new timetable next month (Sunday, 2 June). Northern says the...