An unexpected history in the stone benches outside Kensington’s museums
If you wander along Exhibition Road to the museums, you might spy a cluster of old stone benches amongst all the modern street furniture and wonder why they're here.

A new tube map has been published
A new tube map has been released showing a number of changes to the service, including the forthcoming partial closure of the Northern line.

Tube union starts first of 6-months of strikes this evening
The RMT's long-running campaign against changes to Night Tube driver rosters will continue tonight with the first of a new round of strikes.

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

The Black Locomotive – a curious Crossrail story
A secret extension of the Crossrail project is tunnelling underneath Buckingham Palace when it hits a strange anomaly and grinds to a sudden stop.

Have you caught a train to London International CIV?
There is a ticket that select people can buy to a station in London that doesn't exist, for journeys that don't end in London.

St Mary Moorfields – the City’s only Roman Catholic church
Just around the corner from Liverpool Street station is a building that if glanced at briefly looks like a conventional Edwardian office block, but is in fact the City of London's only Catholic Church.

Last chance to visit Bank tube station before Northern line closure
Next Friday evening, the Northern line between Kennington and Moorgate will close for several months, as a major stage of the Bank station upgrade is carried out.

See old fashioned travel display boards at the Barbican
An exhibition has been running for a few months at the Barbican, showing a selection of works by the Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta.

Waterloo & City line to resume peak-hours service this week
London Underground's Waterloo & City line, which was suspended in late December due to a shortage of drivers is to resume partial service from this week.

London’s Pocket Parks: Greenwood Theatre Garden, SE1
Wrapping around the outside of a theatre next to London Bridge station is a linear pocket park that opened in 2015.

Plans for NHS Covid memorial in Postman’s Park
The Postman's Park in the City of London, which is home to a famous wall of memorials to those that have given their lives whilst saving the lives of others, could gain an NHS memorial

London Zoo is counting its animals
London Zoo's annual opportunity to share cute photos of zookeepers counting animals has come again, with their annual stocktake to make sure they have the same number of animals that are expected, no more, and hopefully, no less.

Bermondsey Tube station is still unfinished
People have been using it for over 20 years, and although it opened in 1999, in a way, Bermondsey station on the Jubilee line can be said to be still unfinished.

Sudbury Hill tube station goes step-free with new lifts
Sudbury Hill Underground station on the Piccadilly line has become the latest tube station to go step-free, with the addition of lifts down to its platforms.

See hundreds of English Civil War reinactors march down The Mall
A date for your diary, as an annual march down The Mall to commemorate the execution of King Charles I will take place later this month.

London’s Alleys: Saracen’s Head Yard, EC3
This is a modern yard in Aldgate named after a long-standing, and not standing anymore, pub of the same name, and had been a coaching inn of some sort ever since Tudor times.