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London Transport News

June 2009

• Wrexham & Shropshire has become the first train operating company to sell Oyster cards to passengers before they arrive in London.

• Art on the on the Underground, London Underground's art programme, has won an international award for culture on public transport systems.

• Transport for London have announced a five month improvement scheme for the A316 Richmond Circus road junction, with increased accessability for cyclists and pedestrians.

• The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has tested London's first air-conditioned tube train.

• New superhero artwork has been added to Charing Cross and Embankment tube stations.

• Due to the ongoing tube strike, and the lack of Chiltern services, over 70,000 football supporters were without transport after the World Cup qualifier at Wembley Stadium.

• Union RMT announced a 48 hour tube strike, which began at 18:59 on Tuesday 9 June.

• The new Three Mills Lock has opened in Bromley-by-Bow.

• Transport for London has announced that six bus manufacturers have qualified to bid for the contract to design and build the new bus for London.

• To aid overseas travellers, London Underground has upgraded all touch screen ticket machines to 17 different languages.

May 2009

• TFL launches search for new, free London morning newspaper to replace The Metro which ends its contract on March 2010.

• Victoria Coach Station has become the first organisation in the London transport sector to achieve the Government's Customer Service Excellence (CSE) standard award.

• The construction of Crossrail has begun at Canary Wharf station.

• The Mayor of London has started a cycle revolution; all are welcome to join the events hosted to reduce impact on the environment.

• New pedestrian crossings at Marble Arch, have allowed a "more mobile service" around the station.

• Crime is down by 8% on the tube since last year.

• Work to build the new Crossrail station at Tottenham Court Road begins on 15 May; rebuilding work will cost over £1 billion and the new ticket hall will be six times the size of the existing one

• The replacement of all trains on the Piccadilly line by 2014 is announced

• A flyover bridge at Canning Town is due to be put in place in late May as part of the DLR extension along the former North London Line from Canning Town to Stratford

April 2009

• The Thames boat services are to be made easier with for example, more integration, a new ferry service from London Bridge to Canary Wharf, extending Tower Pier and acceptance of Oyster Pay as you go.

• The London Overground's Stratford platforms will open later this month

• Taxi fares in London increase by 3.4%

• A bird photo competition, with partnership between tfl and RSPB, is launched

Member News

• We have two new members! We welcome Trainzamania and Cɧrɩs, who both joined on 2 June.

There are currently 71 members!

This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

General

It has certainly been a fantastic month for featured articles, with no less than three articles being promoted in June, Albert Bridge, London, Battersea Bridge and Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. We would like to thank all the editors who worked so hard to get these articles where they are now. Richmond Bridge, London, which was promoted in May, was featured on the main page on 17 June. Chelsea Bridge has been nominated for featured status- I invite you to review or comment on the article here.

Concluding the news on featured articles, the List of London Underground stations article went through another featured list review. Fortunately, the list was able to keep its featured status.

The project gained two new members in June, Cɧrɩs and Trainzamania, bringing our total membership up to 71. We'll soon make it to 100!

As usual all suggestions to improving the metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.

This month's selected image

From the editor

This is my first time editing the newsletter, so I hope everything's alright. I've added a bit more colour to the assessment section so that GA and FA/FL stand out more. Any further improvements are welcome, so please comment on what could be done better. Suggestions for alterations to the layout of the newsletter will be appreciated.

I would like to thank all the members of the WikiProject who helped create this issue and all those who have contributed to the articles which have made featured status in the past month.

Contributors to this Issue

• OllieFury (talk) (Guest Editor and Distributor)
• Simply south (talk) (Contributor and Distibutor)

• Credits to all who fix grammar, spelling and punctuation in this newsletter.

Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2006!

Assessment

GAC
None

FA/FL Albert Bridge Battersea Bridge Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway City and South London Railway Edgar Speyer Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway List of London Underground stations London congestion charge Richmond Bridge, London Vauxhall Bridge

FAC/FLC

• Chelsea Bridge

A
None

Other assessment notes

None

Other announcements

• Three articles have been promoted to featured status:

• Albert Bridge, London
• Battersea Bridge
• Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway

• The Chelsea Bridge article has been nominated as a featured article

• Richmond Bridge, London was featured on the main page on 17 June.

• The Church Road (Harlesden) article was deleted following an AFD discussion.

Did you know...

• ...that a year after its death in 2006, the remains of a bottlenose whale removed from the River Thames at Battersea Bridge were put on public display in the offices of The Guardian newspaper?
• ...that in September 1844 a clown from Astley's Amphitheatre sailed from Vauxhall Bridge to Westminster Bridge in a washtub towed by geese?
• ...that the Dollis Brook Viaduct is the highest point on both the Northern Line and the London Underground above ground level, reaching 60 feet (18 m) in height?
• ...that the Dollis Valley Greenwalk is one of ten parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Barnet to win a £400,000 grant to improve its quality and safety?
• ...that Chelsea Bridge was little used at night when it first opened, because of its owners' policy of only turning the lighting on if Queen Victoria was spending the night in London?
• ...that Albert Bridge (pictured) in London is seriously structurally unsound in part because of rotting caused by dog's urine?
• ...despite the many motorways serving London, only four (the M1, the M4, M11 and M25) actually enter Greater London?
• ...out of the 32 London Borough, six have no underground stations- all of them south of the River Thames.
• ...Marylebone tube station opened with the unusual name of Great Central, reflecting the main line company that ran trains out of the terminus?
• ...that Routemaster's are still used on two heritage bus routes in London, routes 9 and 15?
• ...that for two years, from 1883 to 1885, the District Railway ran services along the Great Western Main Line to Windsor?
• ...that the Circle line was only designated as a separate line in 1949?
• ...Jerry Springer maintains that he was born in East Finchley tube station when his mother took shelter during the Blitz, despite East Finchley being a surface station.

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London Transport News

July

• 48 hour strike disrupts main line services from Liverpool Street

• The Victoria Underground station upgrade has received planning approval from the Secretary of State for Transport

• East Thames Buses to be sold by TfL to London General Transport Services Limited

• The First 2009 Stock train starts carrying passengers in service on the Victoria line

• Visitors to Piccadilly Circus will be able to see Tube service updates on the Coca-Cola advertising board

• Boris Johnson unveils the first of the new London Overground trains

June 2009

• Wrexham & Shropshire has become the first train operating company to sell Oyster cards to passengers before they arrive in London.

• Art on the on the Underground, London Underground's art programme, has won an international award for culture on public transport systems.

• Transport for London have announced a five month improvement scheme for the A316 Richmond Circus road junction, with increased accessability for cyclists and pedestrians.

• The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has tested London's first air-conditioned tube train.

• New superhero artwork has been added to Charing Cross and Embankment tube stations.

• Due to the ongoing tube strike, and the lack of Chiltern services, over 70,000 football supporters were without transport after the World Cup qualifier at Wembley Stadium.

• Union RMT announced a 48 hour tube strike, which began at 18:59 on Tuesday 9 June.

• The new Three Mills Lock has opened in Bromley-by-Bow.

• Transport for London has announced that six bus manufacturers have qualified to bid for the contract to design and build the new bus for London.

• To aid overseas travellers, London Underground has upgraded all touch screen ticket machines to 17 different languages.

Member News

• Welcome to new member Tyw7 who joined on 29 July.

• We currently have 72 members signed-up.

This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

General

After the surge of new articles in June, July has been a quieter month with just one new featured article, Chelsea Bridge (well done again Iridescent), and one new good article, Charles Pearson. We therefore, currently have 10 Featured Articles, 1 Featured List and 10 Good Articles in the Project. Unfortunately, one former Good Article, Docklands Light Railway has been demoted to B-class. We have 110 B-class articles and it would nice to see some of those improved and taken through the Good Article review process - so come on guys, get those books out and get fact checking.

As usual all suggestions to improving the metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.

This month's selected image

London Underground Battery-electric locomotive L16 designed to operate over tracks where the traction current is turned off for maintenance work.

From the editor

Thanks for reading.

Contributors to this Issue

• DavidCane (talk) (Guest Editor and Distributor)
• Simply south (talk) (Contributor and Distibutor)

Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2006!

Assessment

Featured Articles & Lists Albert Bridge, London Battersea Bridge Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Chelsea Bridge City and South London Railway Edgar Speyer Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway List of London Underground stations London congestion charge Richmond Bridge, London Vauxhall Bridge

FAC/FLC
None

Good Articles A1 road (London) A215 road Charles Pearson Chiswick Bridge Eurostar Hammerton's Ferry High Speed 1 London Paddington station Wandsworth Bridge Wimbledon and Sutton Railway

GAC
None

A
None

Other assessment notes

None

Other announcements

• One article was promoted to Featured Article status:
  • Chelsea Bridge

• One article was promoted to Good Article status:
  • Charles Pearson

• A new timeline has been created for the London Underground listing important events in the network's history

Did you know...

• ...that Sir Alexander Valentine, Chairman of London Transport wrote a book encouraging Londoners to walk round the city.
• ...that in the 1960s Chelsea Bridge was a venue for illegal bike racing and, in 1970, a battle took place between rival motorcycle gangs.
• ...that before Charles Pearson campaigned for the construction of the Metropolitan Railway, he proposed a giant underground railway terminus in Farringdon?
• ...that a year after its death in 2006, the remains of a bottlenose whale removed from the River Thames at Battersea Bridge were put on public display in the offices of The Guardian newspaper?
• ...that in September 1844 a clown from Astley's Amphitheatre sailed from Vauxhall Bridge to Westminster Bridge in a washtub towed by geese?
• ...that the Dollis Brook Viaduct is the highest point on both the Northern Line and the London Underground above ground level, reaching 60 feet (18 m) in height?
• ...that the Dollis Valley Greenwalk is one of ten parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Barnet to win a £400,000 grant to improve its quality and safety?
• ...that Chelsea Bridge was little used at night when it first opened, because of its owners' policy of only turning the lighting on if Queen Victoria was spending the night in London?
• ...that Albert Bridge in London is seriously structurally unsound in part because of rotting caused by dog's urine?
• ...despite the many motorways serving London, only four (the M1, the M4, M11 and M25) actually enter Greater London?
• ...out of the 32 London Borough, six have no underground stations- all of them south of the River Thames.
• ...Marylebone tube station opened with the unusual name of Great Central, reflecting the main line company that ran trains out of the terminus?
• ...that Routemasters are still used on two heritage bus routes in London, routes 9 and 15?
• ...that for two years, from 1883 to 1885, the District Railway ran services along the Great Western Main Line to Windsor?

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London Transport News

Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

September

• Introduction of pink Oyster validators may mean cheaper fares for people avoiding Zone 1 if they touch in Midway through their journey, at some key interchanges.

• TfL will launch Countdown, a new sevice which shows when and where the next bus is for mobile and internet users.

August

• More bendy buses removed

• Upminster tube depot celebrates 50 years

• New cameras to ease traffic

• New Travel Support card launched for people with certain disabilities

• Signals now use LEDs to save energy

• TfL moves to Greenwich Peninsula

• Extra staff on London Overground to help passengers

• Serco operator to set up and run London Cycle Hire scheme

• New bus lane to be installed at Piccadilly Circus

• Local pedestrians and cyclists would use Henleys Corner in Barnet more if it were improved

Member News

• Hello to Klomphy, Huangcjz, mattdickinson and Likelife

• We currently have 76 members signed-up.

This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

General

After the surge of new articles in June, July has been a quieter month with just one new featured article, Chelsea Bridge (well done again Iridescent), and one new good article, Charles Pearson. We therefore, currently have 10 Featured Articles, 1 Featured List and 10 Good Articles although two of thse are under reassessment. Unfortunately, one former Good Article, Docklands Light Railway was demoted to B-class in July and in early August this was followed by Jean Charles de Menezes. We have 90 B-class articles and it would nice to see some of those improved as suggested before.

However, overall assessment of articles appears to have dropped with 43% of articles now unasssessed for quality. Also, 35% of articles have no assessment or importance rating at all. This is quite an increase whereas it was only 1/4 at the start of the year.

There are concerns over what areas of the project are still in use and what are not. Please see WT:LT#Condition of the Wikiproject London Transport page.

On the Portal, the only active areas seem to be the voting and changing of the selected pictures and articles. The transport news seems to be infrequently updated with the most up-to-date news being in this newsletter!

As usual all suggestions to improving the Metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.

This month's selected image

From the editor

August, despite some significant changes appears to have been a quiet month. I hope this is still interesting\informative.

Thanks to DavidCane and Huangcjz for some corrections.

Contributors to this Issue

• Simply south (talk) (Editor and Distibutor)

Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2006!

Assessment

Featured Articles & Lists Albert Bridge, London Battersea Bridge Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Chelsea Bridge City and South London Railway Edgar Speyer Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway List of London Underground stations London congestion charge Richmond Bridge, London Vauxhall Bridge

FAC/FLC

• Timeline of the London Underground

Good Articles A1 road (London) A215 road Charles Pearson Chiswick Bridge Eurostar Hammerton's Ferry High Speed 1 London Paddington station Wandsworth Bridge Wimbledon and Sutton Railway

GAC
None

A
None

Other assessment notes

• Timeline of the London Underground is currently a featured list candidate

• A1 road (London) and A215 road are on good article review as part of a larger project to see whether articles should have their GA statuses retained.

• Jean Charles de Menezes was demoted to B-Class.

Other announcements

• Sheila Gallagher was nominated for deletion but the decision was decided to keep it as a disambiguation page.

• Tyw7 requests help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

• A major move request was done by MRSC, who has recently returned, at Talk:London Paddington station#Requested move. The move involves the format of names of many London stations. Please see the discussion.

• Mattdickinson brought up an interesting point on correcting Live departure boards

• Template:Nearest Over has been deleted.

Did you know...

• ...that Sir Alexander Valentine, Chairman of London Transport wrote a book encouraging Londoners to walk round the city.
• ...that in the 1960s Chelsea Bridge was a venue for illegal bike racing and, in 1970, a battle took place between rival motorcycle gangs.
• ...that before Charles Pearson campaigned for the construction of the Metropolitan Railway, he proposed a giant underground railway terminus in Farringdon?
• ...that a year after its death in 2006, the remains of a bottlenose whale removed from the River Thames at Battersea Bridge were put on public display in the offices of The Guardian newspaper?
• ...that in September 1844 a clown from Astley's Amphitheatre sailed from Vauxhall Bridge to Westminster Bridge in a washtub towed by geese?
• ...that the Dollis Brook Viaduct is the highest point on both the Northern Line and the London Underground above ground level, reaching 60 feet (18 m) in height?
• ...that the Dollis Valley Greenwalk is one of ten parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Barnet to win a £400,000 grant to improve its quality and safety?
• ...that Chelsea Bridge was little used at night when it first opened, because of its owners' policy of only turning the lighting on if Queen Victoria was spending the night in London?
• ...that Albert Bridge in London is seriously structurally unsound in part because of rotting caused by dog's urine?
• ...despite the many motorways serving London, only four (the M1, the M4, M11 and M25) actually enter Greater London?
• ...out of the 32 London Borough, six have no underground stations- all of them south of the River Thames.
• ...Marylebone tube station opened with the unusual name of Great Central, reflecting the main line company that ran trains out of the terminus?
• ...that Routemasters are still used on two heritage bus routes in London, routes 9 and 15?
• ...that for two years, from 1883 to 1885, the District Railway ran services along the Great Western Main Line to Windsor?

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London Transport News

For more information see: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/3119.aspx

Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

October

• A few London Overground new British Rail Class 378 is seen in service.

• The new Docklands Light Railway rolling stock B07/09 seen in service. In the past, this model has been a rare sight but now it is becomming common.

• A new Cycle Hire scheme is introduced in London.

• New report shows Countdown could be solution to pedestrian confusion at traffic lights

• Route P13 has been revised to improve reliability for passengers

September

• Introduction of pink Oyster validators may mean cheaper fares for people avoiding Zone 1 if they touch in Midway through their journey, at some key interchanges.

• TfL will launch Countdown, a new sevice which shows when and where the next bus is for mobile and internet users.

• TfL's Lost Property Office celebrates 75 years

• London's taxi drivers take a large group of seriously ill children on a trip of a lifetime to Disneyland Paris

• Mayor opens new Imperial Wharf station

• Strike threat lifted as RMT leadership accepts Victoria line working patterns

• New edition of 'Poems on the Underground' hits bookstores

• New Travel Information Centre opens at Euston

• 'No reason' for Victoria line strike, says London Underground

• Transport for London tightens guidelines for licensing taxi and private hire drivers in London

• TfL calls on PPP Arbiter to set a fair price for Tube Lines contract

• Ian Brown, the Managing Director of Transport for London's (TfL) London Rail directorate and Chairman of Docklands Light Railway received an award for making 'an outstanding personal contribution to the rail industry'

• Free Guided Walks across the Capital on 26-27 September 2009

• Urgent utility works in Victoria for next eight weeks

• Central London roads close as weekend of cycling comes to London

• Work progressing on Hanger Lane bridges

• Ten rail stations to be managed by Transport for London

• TfL campaign urges drivers to 'give motorcyclists a second thought' and cut road deaths

• Saddle up for Cycle Fridays this week and you may end up on the winners' podium at the Tour of Britain

• Mike Brown named as new Managing Director of London Underground

• London Underground staff turn the Tube green, purple and pink

• Giant eye warns drug drivers to stay away from the wheel

• TfL agrees £1bn loan for Crossrail from European Investment Bank

• Introduction of pink Oyster route validators at selected stations

• Better bus information on the way

• Writer Sarah Butler discovers Underground literary talent

• Wanstead station re-opens following major works

Member News

• We currently have 77 members signed-up.

Welcome User:Mackenzieblu who joined on September 26, 2009.

This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

General

September has seen an increase in the number of articles as well as October. There was only the promotion Timeline of the London Underground to featured list status so congratulations to those involved. October so far has been eventful in other areas except for the assessment side.

On an assessment at the start of October the overall assessment showed that (and still is at the time of writing) there are 41% of articles have no assessment or importance rating at all.This seems to be getting worse compatred to to the start of the year when this figure was only at 25%.

On the Portal, the only active areas seem to be the voting and changing of the selected pictures and articles. The transport news seems to be infrequently updated with the most up-to-date news being in this newsletter!

As usual all suggestions to improving the Metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.

This month's selected image

The following WikiProject London Transport pictures have been selected as amongst the best from the Project and are displayed in random rotation on the London transport Portal.

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List of former monthly choices

This month's gallery of images (added by User:Tyw7)

• 
  Two B07/09 rolling stock next to an older B92 rolling stock at the Poplar DLR depot next to Poplar DLR Station.
• 
  A B90 stock pulling into Pontoon Dock DLR station.
• 
  A British Rail Class 378 no. 007 awaiting departure at Richmond station (London)
• 
  The interior of a London Overground owned British Rail Class 378 put into service on the East London Line.
• 
  First generation Docklands Light Railway rolling stock (P86) stock in original livery, September 1987
• 
  The control desk of a Docklands Light Railway rolling stock. This control desk is usually closed.

From the editor

Tyw7 has contributed well to this edition with the addition of a gallery section which may be present in future editions as well as updating the transport news. Thank you for this.

DavidCane has also done some reorganising of the whole project after little response on the status on various pages from 2 months ago. This has helped in some ways and thanks to him.

Contributors to this Issue

• Simply south (talk) - (Editor and Distibutor)
• Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions) - Guest Contributor

Improving Wikipedia one edit at a time!

Assessment

Featured Articles & Lists Albert Bridge, London Battersea Bridge Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Chelsea Bridge City and South London Railway Edgar Speyer Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway London congestion charge Richmond Bridge, London Vauxhall Bridge List of London Underground stations Timeline of the London Underground

FAC/FLC
None

Good Articles A1 road (London) A215 road Charles Pearson Chiswick Bridge Eurostar Hammerton's Ferry High Speed 1 London Paddington station Wandsworth Bridge Wimbledon and Sutton Railway

GAC
None

A
None

Other assessment notes

• Timeline of the London Underground was promoted to featured list status in September. Well done to all involved.

• A1 road (London) and A215 road retained their GA statuses from good article review as part of a larger project to see whether articles should have their GA statuses retained.

• Isambard Kingdom Brunel has been under featured article review.

Other announcements

• London School Buses was nominated for deletion but the decision was decided to keep due to no consensus.

• Tyw7 requests help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

• MRSC requests help with improving North and West London Light Railway

• Move requests occurred with M4 motorway, M1 motorway and History of transport in London (1933–2003).

• WikiProject London Transport has been added to a project that has generated a list of the most visited pages related to this project. These can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages.

• The station naming convention move outcome was no consensus.

• All other templates related to Nearest Over have been deleted.

Did you know...

• ...that the Underground's architect Charles Holden and LPTB Managing Director Frank Pick were both sons of drapers?
• ...that Blackfriars Underground station (opened 1870) pre-dates the main line station by sixteen years?
• ...that the Westway, the West Cross Route and the East Cross Route are the only parts of the GLC's 1960s plan for the London Motorway Box that were built?
• ...that prior to the transfer of most of the route to the Central line in 1947, the Fairlop Loop saw circular services running from Liverpool Street to Stratford to Ilford to Woodford to Stratford to Liverpool Street?
• ...that Belsize Park station is one of the only eight stations in London to have a deep level bomb shelter beneath it?
• …that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
• ...that Greenford station has the only remaining wooden escalator on the London Underground?
• ...that There are only two tube stations which have all five vowels in them - Mansion House station and South Ealing station.
• ...that the Docklands Light Railway rolling stock is capable of travelling 100 km/h (62 mph)?
• ... that after World War II, designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs?

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London Transport News

For more information see: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/3119.aspx (most times)

Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

November

• Bendy buses to be removed from route 38 to be replaced by double-decker buses

• New traffic light timings in Camden Town on trial, giving green light to those within speed limit and red light to speeders

• Coca-cola to sponsor LU busking over Christmas period

• new Surface Transport and Traffic Operations Centre opened by Duke of York

• Brixton Hill gyratory removed

October

• Hydrogen refuelling site to be built in east London for Hydrogen buses

• Baby born on bus route 394

• South Quay DLR station resited

• Consultation on removing Tottenham Hale gyratory

• First new 'S' Stock arrives

• Automated payment proposed for congestion charging and also stopping fines for those who opt-in

• Mayor tackles investement in transport network

• Roadworks permit scheme introduced

• River service between Greenwich and Woolwich extended to 2013

• Pay offer for LU workers accepted by union after strike

• Bank DLR platforms to close at Christmas for upgrade work

• A few London Overground new British Rail Class 378 is seen in service.

• The new Docklands Light Railway rolling stock B07/09 seen in service. In the past, this model has been a rare sight but now it is becomming common.

• A new Cycle Hire scheme is introduced in London.

• New report shows Countdown could be solution to pedestrian confusion at traffic lights

• Route P13 has been revised to improve reliability for passengers

Member News

• No new members to report.

This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

General

There has been a general increase in articles. However again there is not much to report other than the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway a candidate for promotion to Good Article whilst British Airways was promoted. September has seen an increase in the number of articles as well as October. October so far has been eventful in other areas except for the assessment side during the start but it has been relatively quiet also in November.

On an assessment at the start of October the overall assessment showed that there were 41% of articles that had no assessment of quality or importance rating at all. This seems to be getting worse compatred to to the start of the year when this figure was only at 25%.

On the Portal, the most active areas seem to be the voting and changing of the selected pictures and articles. The transport news seems to be infrequently updated with the most up-to-date news being in this newsletter! Did you know is now being improved.

As usual all suggestions to improving the Metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.

This month's selected image

The original Hampton Court Bridge in 1753, the first of four on the site.

This month's gallery of images (added by User:Tyw7)

• 
  Two B07/09 rolling stock next to an older B92 rolling stock at the Poplar DLR depot next to Poplar DLR Station.
• 
  A B90 stock pulling into Pontoon Dock DLR station.
• 
  A British Rail Class 378 no. 007 awaiting departure at Richmond station (London)
• 
  The interior of a London Overground owned British Rail Class 378 put into service on the East London Line.
• 
  First generation Docklands Light Railway rolling stock (P86) stock in original livery, September 1987
• 
  The control desk of a Docklands Light Railway rolling stock. This control desk is usually closed.

From the editor

Tyw7 has contributed well to the previous edition with the addition of a gallery section which may be present in future editions as well as updating the transport news. Thank you for this. Any suggestions welcome for also updating of images.

Huge thank you to DavidCane for helping to reorganising of the whole project after little response on the status on various pages from a few months ago.

Contributors to this Issue

• Simply south (talk) - (Editor and Distibutor)

Improving Wikipedia one edit at a time!

Assessment

Featured Articles & Lists Albert Bridge, London Battersea Bridge Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Chelsea Bridge City and South London Railway Edgar Speyer Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway London congestion charge Richmond Bridge, London Vauxhall Bridge List of London Underground stations Timeline of the London Underground

FAC/FLC
None

Good Articles A1 road (London) A215 road Charles Pearson Chiswick Bridge Eurostar Hammerton's Ferry High Speed 1 London Paddington station Wandsworth Bridge Wimbledon and Sutton Railway British Airways

GAC

• Baker Street and Waterloo Railway

A
None

Other assessment notes

• British Airways was promoted to Good Article status in early November. Well done to all involved.

• New article Baker Street and Waterloo Railway is nominated for Good Article

• Isambard Kingdom Brunel has been under featured article review.

Other announcements

• Tyw7 requests help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

• MRSC requests help with improving North and West London Light Railway and West London Orbital

• WikiProject London Transport has been added to a project that has generated a list of the most visited pages related to this project. These can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages.

• File:Thames Tunnels.svg requested to be updated

Did you know...

• ...that the Underground's architect Charles Holden and LPTB Managing Director Frank Pick were both sons of drapers?
• ...that Blackfriars Underground station (opened 1870) pre-dates the main line station by sixteen years?
• ...that the Westway, the West Cross Route and the East Cross Route are the only parts of the GLC's 1960s plan for the London Motorway Box that were built?
• ...that prior to the transfer of most of the route to the Central line in 1947, the Fairlop Loop saw circular services running from Liverpool Street to Stratford to Ilford to Woodford to Stratford to Liverpool Street?
• ...that Belsize Park station is one of the only eight stations in London to have a deep level bomb shelter beneath it?
• …that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
• ...that Greenford station has the only remaining wooden escalator on the London Underground?
• ...that There are only two tube stations which have all five vowels in them - Mansion House station and South Ealing station.
• ...that the Docklands Light Railway rolling stock is capable of travelling 100 km/h (62 mph)?
• ... that after World War II, designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs?
• ... that that the London Underground's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches?

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London Transport News

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Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

December

• ING direct will sponsor free travel on the Underground at New Year's Eve

• Maida Vale tube station received the National Rail Heritage Award due to its modernisation

November

• Blackwall Tunnel temporarily closed because a vehicle caught fire

• A new ticket hall is installed at Kings Cross St Pancras station giving a 30 per cent increase in capacity with more entrances and escalators as well as lifts installed giving most of the remaining lines at this station step-free access for disabled passengers. The exception to this is the Northern Line with works still occurring until mid 2010.

• New bridges installed at Limehouse station to provide easier interchange between DLR and National Rail services

• A new campaign is launched warning Londoners of unbooked minicabs.

• South Croydon railway station is to cut its power from the National Grid and instead have its CCTV and lighting powered by solar panels to be installed. This is part of an effort to go green and have a big cut in carbon emissions

• The Docklands Light Railway celebrates 10 years of its Lewisham extension

• Oyster Pay As You Go now accepted on Thames Clipper services

• Oyster Pay As You Go to be accepted on all National Rail services in London from 2 January 2010

• The TfL Lost Property Office has donated a lot of new toys to the Salvation Army to help disadvantaged children in south London

• During the festive period, London Overground will be operating extra services on Saturdays to help Christmas shoppers

• Bendy buses to be removed from route 38 to be replaced by double-decker buses

• New traffic light timings in Camden Town on trial, giving green light to those within speed limit and red light to speeders

• Coca-cola to sponsor LU busking over Christmas period

• new Surface Transport and Traffic Operations Centre opened by Duke of York

• Brixton Hill gyratory removed

Member News

• No new members to report.

This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

General

Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was promoted to good article. Well done to DavidCane. This now also on as a candidate for featured article. Otherwise this month has been again fairly quiet. The portal went through a candidacy for featured portal with not much luck. The areas of the portal are becoming more active with the voting and changing of the selected pictures and articles. The transport news seems has started to be updated again but with the most up-to-date news being in this newsletter. Did you know is being improved.

As usual all suggestions to improving the Metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.

This month's selected image

This month's gallery of images (added by User:Sunil060902)

• 
  Stratford International station opened for Southeastern preview services on 30 November 2009.
• 
  Westbound platforms at Stratford International.
• 
  The new northern entrance and ticket hall at King's Cross St. Pancras tube station opened on 29 November 2009.
• 
  The new northern ticket hall at King's Cross St. Pancras tube station.
• 
  The footbridge linking the mainline (c2c) and DLR platforms at Limehouse station opened in late November 2009.
• 
  The new South Quay DLR station opened on 26 October 2009.
• 
  South Quay new station platforms looking west.
• 
  The bay platform at Mudchute DLR station opened in early October 2009.

From the editor

I am sorry for the previous editions for being late as well as this one due to being busy

Thank you to Sunil060902 for the gallery update

If you think there is anything else i have missed, please drop me a note or leave a message at The Metropolitan's feedback page. Also if you feel you want to do an edition, again leave me a message.

Contributors to this Issue

• Simply south (talk) - (Editor and Distibutor)

• Sunil060902 (talk) - Guest gallery updater

Improving Wikipedia one edit at a time!

Assessment

Featured Articles & Lists Albert Bridge, London Battersea Bridge Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Chelsea Bridge City and South London Railway Edgar Speyer Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway London congestion charge Richmond Bridge, London Vauxhall Bridge List of London Underground stations Timeline of the London Underground

FAC/FLC

• Baker Street and Waterloo Railway

Good Articles A1 road (London) A215 road British Airways Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Charles Pearson Chiswick Bridge Eurostar Hammerton's Ferry High Speed 1 London Paddington station Wandsworth Bridge Wimbledon and Sutton Railway

GAC
None

A
None

Other assessment notes

• Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was promoted to Good Article status in early November. Well done to all involved.

• Isambard Kingdom Brunel was demoted from featured article status in mid-November.

• Portal:London Transport was nominated for featured portal status with no success

• The percentage of article assessed remains roughly the same as in October

Other announcements

• Tyw7 requests help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

• MRSC requests help with improving North and West London Light Railway and West London Orbital

• WikiProject London Transport has been added to a project that has generated a list of the most visited pages related to this project. These can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages.

• requested to be updated

• A discussion arose over the addition or removal to succession to the London Underground lines and their histories

• Transport categories (and the other categories generally) were renamed for Kensington & Chelsea and Barking & Dagenham

Did you know...

• ...that the Underground's architect Charles Holden and LPTB Managing Director Frank Pick were both sons of drapers?
• ...that Blackfriars Underground station (opened 1870) pre-dates the main line station by sixteen years?
• ...that the Westway, the West Cross Route and the East Cross Route are the only parts of the GLC's 1960s plan for the London Motorway Box that were built?
• ...that prior to the transfer of most of the route to the Central line in 1947, the Fairlop Loop saw circular services running from Liverpool Street to Stratford to Ilford to Woodford to Stratford to Liverpool Street?
• ...that Belsize Park station is one of the only eight stations in London to have a deep level bomb shelter beneath it?
• …that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
• ...that Greenford station has the only remaining wooden escalator on the London Underground?
• ...that There are only two tube stations which have all five vowels in them - Mansion House station and South Ealing station.
• ...that the Docklands Light Railway rolling stock is capable of travelling 100 km/h (62 mph)?
• ... that after World War II, designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs?
• ... that that the London Underground's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches?

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London Transport News

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Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

January 2010

• East London Line extension nearly complete

• Rotherhithe Tunnel to close from Sunday to Thursday nights for the next three weeks for installation of pedestrian signage, power cables and additional pollution monitoring equipment.

December 2009

• Oyster Pay-as-you-go introduced across all London stations in early January

• Wrightbus to build the routemaster-based new London bus design

• RMT accepts London Underground's staff payment deal

• Closure of Fareham Street means bus diversions. This is so that there can be construction works on the Crossrail interchange at Tottenham Court Road station.

• Arbiter finds that costs of Tube Lines upgrade closer to London Underground ltd estimate than theirs.

• Leigible London scheme introduced to make information more available for pedestrians. This is first being used in the borough of Richmond upon Thames

• When the London cycle hire scheme is launched, the first half hour will be free

• Over £3 million to be spent on improving loca transport in Merton borough and other funding allocated to ther boroughs across London for transport improvements

• Borough High Street to be northbopund only untril July due to major utility and gas works

• Redevelopment of Tottenham Court Road to begin in early 2010

• Permits for roadworks to be introduced on January 11th 2010

• ING direct sponsor free travel on the Underground at New Year's Eve

• Maida Vale tube station received the National Rail Heritage Award due to its modernisation

Member News

• No new members to report.

This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

General

Baker Street and Waterloo Railway is now a candidate for featured article. Otherwise this and the last last couple of months have again been fairly quiet. The portal went through a candidacy for featured portal with not much luck. The areas of the portal are becoming more active with the voting and changing of the selected pictures and articles. The transport news seems has started to be updated again but with the most up-to-date news being in this newsletter. Did you know is being improved.

As usual all suggestions to improving the Metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.

This month's selected image

View of Old London Bridge, circa 1632 by Claude de Jongh.

This month's gallery of images (added by User:Sunil060902)

• 
  Stratford International station opened for Southeastern preview services on 30 November 2009.
• 
  Westbound platforms at Stratford International.
• 
  The new northern entrance and ticket hall at King's Cross St. Pancras tube station opened on 29 November 2009.
• 
  The new northern ticket hall at King's Cross St. Pancras tube station.
• 
  The footbridge linking the mainline (c2c) and DLR platforms at Limehouse station opened in late November 2009.
• 
  The new South Quay DLR station opened on 26 October 2009.
• 
  South Quay new station platforms looking west.
• 
  The bay platform at Mudchute DLR station opened in early October 2009.

From the editor

Hello and Happy New Year from me and generally the London Transport project.

Thank you to Sunil060902 for the December gallery update

If you think there is anything else i have missed, please drop me a note or leave a message at The Metropolitan's feedback page. Also if you feel you want to do an edition, again leave me a message.

Again i would like to state this newsletter is looking for anyone willing to do an issue.

Contributors to this Issue

• Simply south (talk) - (Editor and Distibutor)

Improving Wikipedia one edit at a time!

Assessment

Featured Articles & Lists Albert Bridge, London Battersea Bridge Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Chelsea Bridge City and South London Railway Edgar Speyer Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway London congestion charge Richmond Bridge, London Vauxhall Bridge List of London Underground stations Timeline of the London Underground

FAC/FLC

• Baker Street and Waterloo Railway

Good Articles A1 road (London) A215 road British Airways Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Charles Pearson Chiswick Bridge Eurostar Hammerton's Ferry High Speed 1 London Paddington station Wandsworth Bridge Wimbledon and Sutton Railway

GAC
None

A
None

Other assessment notes

• Baker Street and Waterloo Railway is currently a featured article candidate. Well done to all involved.

• Isambard Kingdom Brunel was demoted from featured article status in mid-November.

• Portal:London Transport was nominated for featured portal status with no success

• The percentage of article assessed remains roughly the same as in October

Other announcements

• Tyw7 requests help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

• MRSC requests help with improving North and West London Light Railway and West London Orbital

• WikiProject London Transport has been added to a project that has generated a list of the most visited pages related to this project. These can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages.

• requested to be updated

• Discussion arose over the addition or removal of succession boxes showing the present London Underground lines and their histories as well as former services. Another discussion arose on boxes showing stations layouts

• Separate issues arose over the population of aboandoned London Undeground projects categories and categories on single station platforms

Did you know...

• ...that the Underground's architect Charles Holden and LPTB Managing Director Frank Pick were both sons of drapers?
• ...that Blackfriars Underground station (opened 1870) pre-dates the main line station by sixteen years?
• ...that the Westway, the West Cross Route and the East Cross Route are the only parts of the GLC's 1960s plan for the London Motorway Box that were built?
• ...that prior to the transfer of most of the route to the Central line in 1947, the Fairlop Loop saw circular services running from Liverpool Street to Stratford to Ilford to Woodford to Stratford to Liverpool Street?
• ...that Belsize Park station is one of the only eight stations in London to have a deep level bomb shelter beneath it?
• …that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
• ...that Greenford station has the only remaining wooden escalator on the London Underground?
• ...that There are only two tube stations which have all five vowels in them - Mansion House station and South Ealing station.
• ...that the Docklands Light Railway rolling stock is capable of travelling 100 km/h (62 mph)?
• ... that after World War II, designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs?
• ... that that the London Underground's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches?

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London Transport News

For more information see: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/3119.aspx (most times)

Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

February 2010

• Motorcycling is to get safer with the creation of the London Motorcycle Policy Unit, a division of the Metropolitan Police that is a new dedicated team of motorcycle safety experts working to reduce motorcycle casualties across the Capital.

• Major improvement works set for the New Cross area

• Smart Travel Sutton scheme sees a 75% increase in cycling and sustainable transport usage in the brough of Sutton

• Taxi fares to increase by 2.3 per cent to meet higher running costs

• New Pegasus crossings intalled over A3 between Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park

• Bounds Green has gained Grade II Listed status from English Heritage

January 2010

• A new walking route from Covent Garden to Holborn is completed, with a public space at Great Queen Street at its centre

• RMT strike planned

• London Undeground celebrate's the Royal Society's 350th Anniverseary with a set of poems

• DLR Bank platforms reopen in February following upgrade works

• Investment Programme Advisory Group set up

• Bus routes 10 and 33 will become 24 hour services

• Life stories are introduced on the Jubilee Line

• Average speed cameras to be trialled on the A13

• Safety, lighting and communication improvement works are to begin february to bring Blackwall Tunnel to 21st century standards

• Twelve Outer London boroughs are selected to become cycling havens

• Grants are given to community groups to boost cycling

• New posters on the Underground network help to promote face equality to help tackle stereotypes on children with disfigurements

• East London Line extension nearly complete

• Rotherhithe Tunnel to close from Sunday to Thursday nights for the next three weeks for installation of pedestrian signage, power cables and additional pollution monitoring equipment.

• Oyster Pay-as-you-go introduced across all London stations in early January

Member News

• APHST (talk · contribs) joins the project bringing our total number of participants to 78. Welcome to APHST!

This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

General

Baker Street and Waterloo Railway is now a featured article and Upminster Bridge tube station is also now a good article. BOAC Flight 712 has also bee nominated for Good article status. North Greenwich railway station was proposed for being moved but faced with opposition, this did not happen.

The portal went through a candidacy for featured portal with not much luck. The areas of the portal are becoming more active with the the voting and changing of the selected pictures and articles. The transport news seems has started to be updated again but with the most up-to-date news being in this newsletter. Did you know is being improved. The portal has had a new selected biography section added to bring it up to standard. Please vote at Portal:London Transport/Vote. The current biography is Charles Pearson.

As usual all suggestions to improving the Metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.

Please also could people submit suggestions for DYKs or does anyone want to do the next issue?

This month's selected image

View of Old London Bridge, circa 1632 by Claude de Jongh.

This month's gallery of images (selected by User:Arriva436)

• 
  Docklands Light Railway trains on and under the Westferry flyover.
• 
  Three Routemasters of The Arriva Heritage Fleet at Covent Garden.
• 
  London General articulated Citaro passing Trafalgar Square on route 453.
• 
  Arriva London articulated Citaro turning in Shaftesbury Avenue, on now double-deck route 38.
• 
  Three Transdev London buses lined up, decorated for the Kingston park and ride.
• 
  A Northern Line train leaving the tunnel just north of Hendon Central station.
• 
  A Greyhound UK coach, usually running between London, Southampton and Portsmouth, seen in Cowes on the Isle of Wight on a promotional visit.

From the editor

Hello and Happy New Year from me and generally the London Transport project.

Thank you to Arriva436 for the February gallery update

If you think there is anything else i have missed, please drop me a note or leave a message at The Metropolitan's feedback page. Also if you feel you want to do an edition, again leave me a message.

Again i would like to state this newsletter is looking for anyone willing to do an issue.

Contributors to this Issue

• Simply south (talk) - (Editor and Distibutor)
• Arriva436 (talk · contribs) - (Gallery)

Improving Wikipedia one edit at a time!

Assessment

Featured Articles & Lists Albert Bridge, London Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Battersea Bridge Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Chelsea Bridge City and South London Railway Edgar Speyer Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway London congestion charge Richmond Bridge, London Vauxhall Bridge List of London Underground stations Timeline of the London Underground

FAC/FLC
None

Good Articles A1 road (London) A215 road British Airways Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Charles Pearson Chiswick Bridge Eurostar Hammerton's Ferry High Speed 1 London Paddington station Upminster Bridge tube station Wandsworth Bridge Wimbledon and Sutton Railway

GAC
None

A
None

Other assessment notes

• Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was promoted to featured article status in January 2010. Well done to all involved.

• Upminster Bridge tube station was promoted to good article status in early February. Well done to all those involved. This is apparently the first tube station to be accepted as a Good Article.

• Portal:London Transport was nominated for featured portal status with no success

• All articles have been assessed of their quality with only some of the articles' importance to the project yet to be determined. Well done on the assessment.

Other announcements

• Tyw7 requests help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

• MRSC requests help with improving North and West London Light Railway and West London Orbital

• WikiProject London Transport has been added to a project that has generated a list of the most visited pages related to this project. These can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages.

• requested to be updated

• Discussion arose over the addition or removal of succession boxes showing the present London Underground lines and their histories as well as former services. Another discussion arose on boxes showing stations layouts

• Separate issues arose over the population of aboandoned London Undeground projects categories and categories on single station platforms

• New guidelines have been proposed for railway accidents. Please see WP:RAILCRASH.

Did you know...

• ...that the Underground's architect Charles Holden and LPTB Managing Director Frank Pick were both sons of drapers?
• ...that Blackfriars Underground station (opened 1870) pre-dates the main line station by sixteen years?
• ...that the Westway, the West Cross Route and the East Cross Route are the only parts of the GLC's 1960s plan for the London Motorway Box that were built?
• ...that prior to the transfer of most of the route to the Central line in 1947, the Fairlop Loop saw circular services running from Liverpool Street to Stratford to Ilford to Woodford to Stratford to Liverpool Street?
• ...that Belsize Park station is one of the only eight stations in London to have a deep level bomb shelter beneath it?
• …that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
• ...that Greenford station has the only remaining wooden escalator on the London Underground?
• ...that There are only two tube stations which have all five vowels in them - Mansion House station and South Ealing station.
• ...that the Docklands Light Railway rolling stock is capable of travelling 100 km/h (62 mph)?
• ... that after World War II, designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs?
• ... that that the London Underground's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches?

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