London’s transport funding deadline gets one week extension
The current funding deal to keep London's trains and buses running was due to expire today, but has been extended by a week as negotiations over TfL's future funding drag on.

Wider pavements and fewer cars planned for the West End
Plans to permanently widen pavements along parts of the West End to make more space for pedestrians have been shown off by the local business group.

Flash sale on Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker!
Tchaikovsky’s score and Anthony Ward’s sets and costumes combine with Bourne’s choreography to create a charmingly irreverent interpretation of the traditional Christmas favourite.

London’s weekly railway news
A weekly round-up of London's rail transport news…

TfL imposes public transport ban on e-scooters
Following a couple of fires on the London Underground, TfL has decided to impose a ban on all e-scooters and e-unicycles across its entire network and its stations.

HS2 signs £2 billion contract for fleet of high-speed trains
A contract worth £2 billion to build a fleet of 54 high-speed trains in the UK has been signed today by HS2.

London’s Pocket Parks: Thornhill Bridge Community Gardens, N1
This is a small park next to the Regents Canal in Barnsbury, that was created as a result of changes to the rules about walking along the canal.

Brunel Museum gets approval to expand the museum
The Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe has been granted planning permission to expand the museum site with a new pavilion that will link its two existing buildings into one larger site.

London’s largest roof garden – 120 Fenchurch Street – reopens
After a rather long pandemic closure, the large roof garden at 120 Fenchurch Street has reopened to the public, with a very windswept opening week ahead.

Strike threat over job cuts on the London Underground
The RMT union is planning a strike ballot next week following news that TfL plans to cut up to 600 jobs in the customer service side of the London Underground.

The Christmas Cracker memorial in Finsbury Square
What looks like a typically grand Victorian drinking fountain in the City of London is in fact a memorial to the family that invented the Christmas Cracker, well, sort of.

Smithfield’s Christmas Eve auction – cancelled for 2021
Smithfield meat market has confirmed that the annual Christmas Eve auction won’t be happening this year, due to you know what.

Tours of the triforium in St Paul’s Cathedral
St Paul’s Cathedral is running occasional tours of its triforium, the space high up above the nave once again during December.

Beam Park station funding forces delay in housing development
Plans by Havering Council to buy up plots of land to support new housing in Dagenham have been withdrawn due to the confusion over plans for a new railway station next to the housing development.

Louis Wain’s kaleidoscopic cats fills a gallery with colour
One Christmas, a patient in a psychiatric hospital was asked to help with the decorations, and he painted Jesus on a mirror, but no ordinary Jesus, this was Jesus as a cat, and the patient was Louis Wain.

Moor Park, the tube station in a private estate
In northwest London lies a tube station that sits almost entirely inside a private housing estate. The tube station, Moor Park on the Metropolitan line sits between a private golf course on one side and a large private housing estate on the other.

An American Werewolf in London with model tube station
It's undeniably stupidly expensive, but there's a limited edition of that famous werewolf movie being released, with a model of a tube station in the box set.

Architectural Christmas wrapping paper
If you're having difficulty finding the right wrapping paper for an architecture fan, then try these for size.

Claims that TfL funding crisis puts housing developments at risk
The public war of words between the Mayor of London and the Department for Transport continues, with a claim this morning that reduced funding for London's transport could put planning housing developments at risk.

London’s Alleys: Reston Place, SW7
Walking up Palace Gate road in Kensington, just short of the main Kensington Road you might spy a sign for a Pedestrian Right of Way leading to Kensington Road, and be intrigued.