Half of London Underground's Tube stations have no light switches that means the lights can never go out.

On Wednesday the biggest Union for train drivers on London’s underground network, ASLEF, voted for strike action on Boxing Day, with another 3 strikes planned for 16th Jan, 3rd Feb and 13th Feb. Bob Crow’s notoriously awkward RMT may soon follow or refuse to cross picket lines, effectively closing London Underground on what is often

Train electrification and main highway projects around country and extension to London Underground system

Following a campaign by Liberal Democrat London Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon, the legal ban on guide dogs travelling on the escalators on the London Underground is being lifted on Wednesday. Transport for London and the Government are changing a by-law which originated in the era of wooden escalators which could expand and contract depending on

Virginia Postrel, over at her Deep Glamour blog, has interesting brief thoughts about how British Airways is attempting to revive its image by being glamorous. The video linked into here has shots of BA aircraft past and present, including that ultimate piece of aviation coolness, Concorde. The new billboard ads I see on the side of the London Underground go for this sort of feel, too. But as alwa...

The other day at a London Underground station, I saw a man who was visibly distressed. A 50-something Asian gentleman in a suit, he’d been waiting for his wife when a man asked him to move out of the way on a narrow path. Except he hadn’t just asked him to move – he’d abused

RMT on tribunal finding that Arwyn Thomas was unfairly dismissed. Bob Crow – RMT General Secretary - says: “London Underground have asked us to wait for the outcome of Arwyn Thomas’s Employment Tribunal and that body has now found that he was unfairly dismissed. Throughout this process LU have said that they would abide by the

Letter to trade unionists: Support our campaign against victimisations To: all trade union branches and supporters of trade unionism in and around London On 16 May, RMT Tube drivers will begin strike action to demand the reinstatement of sacked union reps Eamonn Lynch and Arwyn Thomas. London Underground sacked Eamonn for following an instruction which turned out to be wrong, despite not sacking o...

One of the great strengths of Christian Woolmar’s highly readable account of Gordon Brown’s drive to part-privatise the London Underground, Down The Tube, is that although he is very hostile to the policy he explains why so many transport managers were really keen to see it introduced. They may have had many second thoughts since,

but if he was on the original Heathrow Express in 1994 that makes it very interesting, particularly given what the Heathrow Express collapse did to London Underground’s approach to risk (I really must write the Jubilee Line Extension post one day). Without knowing which I’d be guessing, and if I’m going to do that I