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A small, two room museum that tells the some of the history of the local area, the rowing customs and of its notable residents. Dominating the main room is a 1960s scale model of Hampton Court Palace.
One of the many conditions imposed on TfL during the pandemic to keep services running when most of us were stuck at home was that it would investigate how it could introduce driverless trains on the ...
A Yorkshire town is currently home to the distinctive appearance of a London Underground tube train, as a new fleet of Piccadilly line trains starts to come off the factory floor. These are the first ...
Congestion charge sign at Fairchild Place, Shoreditch Although the congestion charge is applied to road vehicles entering the congestion zone, many embassies argue that it’s not a charge but a tax, ...
TfL has released a batch of documents that show almost every underground station in glorious 3D format. They are technically axonometric diagrams, which is 3D-like, but not to scale, which becomes ...
This recently revamped Knightsbridge alley has existed on this site ever since the area was first turned from fields into posh shops. The alley first appears in R Horwood’s map of 1799 as a ...
Prepare to be both delighted and outraged, as the names are revealed for renaming the London Overground branches. Plans to split the spaghetti of Orange lines on the tube map were announced back in ...
There’s an office in London that contains something critical to the security of the global internet — a bunch of swinging pendulums. Cloudflare London office (c) ianVisits They’re not even connected ...
Trials of a new cooling system for the London Underground stations have proven sufficiently successful that Transport for London (TfL) is already considering where it could be deployed. Cooling panel ...
Almost 30 years after the last one was built, Kingston on Thames has replaced its old bus station with a new one that has drawn mixed comments. There’s a complaint that the seats, which are facing the ...
This equestrian-named passage near Holborn isn’t named after jockeys, as we think of them today, riding horses in races, but it is related to horses as a mode of transport. The passage runs alongside ...
It may be several years before we know what the plans for Euson’s HS2 station will be, a report by the National Audit Office has warned. Euston station site Oct 2021 (c) ianVisits In its periodic ...
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