It's time to make alternative plans if you're spending any time in Greater London over the next few days as another strike affecting London Underground comes around. The strike called by the union is over the planned launch of the Night Tube services - which will allow some London Underground services to operate 24 hours during weekends. Transport for London predict there … [Read more...]
London Underground Strike – It’s on
For those of you visiting London, or suffer with the daily commute in and around the city, there's bad news in terms how you will get around. London Underground drivers of the RMT, Unite and TSSA unions will be walking out on strike from 18:30 today (Wednesday evening) for 24 hours. Meanwhile ASLEF members will be walking out from 21:30 today for 24 hours too. Transport for … [Read more...]
London Underground strike off – (5th May to 8th May – UPDATE 2)
UPDATE 2: London Underground and The Rail, Maritime and Transport Union have agreed to the strike to be suspended and services to continue as normal. London Underground and Rail, Maritime and Transport union are in last-ditch talks today (Monday 5th May) to try and find a solution to the dispute. I'll try to keep abreast of the situation as the day develop. It seems that … [Read more...]
Heathrow Express/London Undergound Strike: Still in progress
Unless something magical and peace has broken overnight, both the Heathrow Express and London Underground will be on strike again today. The Heathrow Express strike will continue to the end of service, whilst the London Underground strike will end at about 21:00 local time, with services not expected to return to normal until 1 May. See my post yesterday on frequencies and … [Read more...]
Strike action – both on Heathrow Express and London Underground
Expect transportation chaos if you're coming into London for the next few days the London Underground and Heathrow Express/Heathrow Connect services will be affected by strike action. Heathrow Express The strike is running from the 29th April to 30th. Trains services will be reduced to 2 trains an hour from/to London: London Paddington To Heathrow T5. First train departs … [Read more...]
Heathrow Express and Connect at Christmas and New Year
With Gatwick airport pretty hard to get in and out of over the festive season, Heathrow Airport will also be have reduced connectivity too. Heathrow Express - https://www.heathrowexpress.com/timetable-schedule/service-plans 24th December: Last train departs Heathrow T5 to Paddington at 21:12, Paddington to Heathrow T5 21:40. 25th December: No service. 26th December: No … [Read more...]
Alternatives to Heathrow Express
As I may have stated some time ago, I'm not a fan of Heathrow Express. As a single traveller going from A to B, having a measly 10% off (which can be a saving as low as ... £2), the faff of using a National Railcard (which counts me out as I don't qualify for most of them... and the only one I'd qualify for I'd use so rarely, I'd barely recover the cost on it). Bottom line … [Read more...]
Through a Lens: Tube in Motion
It's Wednesday, so it's time for through a lens. Shot at Baker Street Station - Metropolitan line section … [Read more...]
WiFi at London Underground stations – now chargable (but not TOO expensive)
In Summer 2012, Virgin Media and London Underground rolled out a programme to introduce WiFi at London Underground stations. Well, the roll-out is mostly there, and in the first instance - it was offered free of charge. The free-for-all period has now come to an end, and now comes the part we all hate... paying. If you're on one of the following UK Mobile networks, you … [Read more...]
150 years of The London Underground – and win with GhettoIFE!
Today marks the 150th Anniversary of the first Underground service in London, operating between Bishop's Road and Farringdon Street by the Metropolitan Railway. Tube 150 Banner - Transport for London That link (which operates still today as part of the Circle Line, Hammersmith and City Line and the Metropolitan Line - as Paddington (Bishops Road), Edgware … [Read more...]
