Paddington travel chaos: Commuters told to avoid station as power line failure leaves train services suspended October 17, 2018 Commuters faced a travel nightmare this morning, with Paddington station plunged into chaos after a Hitachi train reportedly caused damage to 500m of electrical power lines during a test last night. The Heathrow Express service from Paddington and trains to and from Reading are not running due to faults with the overhead power lines near [...]
Travel alert: London Overground hit by severe delays October 16, 2018 Rail disruptions have hit London Overground commuters this morning. Severe delays are affecting routes between Clapham Junction and Stratford and Richmond and Stratford. Read more: Earl's Court Station evacuated as person on track airlifted to safety Transport for London (TfL) said tickets will be accepted on the Tube and bus services, though a good service [...]
Card clash: Mastercard UK’s Mark Barnett on the battle for payments market share October 15, 2018 The likelihood is that, reading this, you have a Visa debit card somewhere on your person. Only two per cent of Britons currently have a Mastercard debit card, but that will change shortly after a string of wins for the US giant which will see its market share increase by 10 times. TSB and Santander [...]
Elizabeth Line trains will not reach Heathrow until ‘early 2019’ October 11, 2018 Elizabeth Line trains will not be used on the route to Heathrow Airport until "the early months of next year", Transport for London (TfL) has said. Howard Smith, TfL's director of operations for the Elizabeth, today told a Policy Forum for London conference today that TfL was still using Heathrow Connect units as the testing had [...]
Chris Grayling berated as work begins to turn motorway into ‘no deal’ Brexit lorry park without telling residents October 11, 2018 A Tory MP is furious work has begun to turn a motorway in his consistency into a "parking lot" in case of no deal Brexit without him knowing. Tom Tugendhat, Conservative MP for Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, berated Transport secretary Chris Grayling for work beginning overnight on the M26. Part of the M26 will [...]
Crossrail 2 boss Michele Dix says she would like tax rises to fund £30bn project October 11, 2018 The managing director for Crossrail 2 Michele Dix has said she would personally favour a rise in taxes to fund the proposed £30bn project. Crossrail 2 is a proposed route in the south east which would run from nine stations in Surrey to three in Hertfordshire, across London. It would connect the South Western main line to [...]
UK startups hold onto Europe’s venture crown with £1.4bn in funding October 11, 2018 UK startups continued to draw in attention from venture capital (VC) firms in the third quarter as Europe’s premier investment hotspot, posting a £1.4bn total draw in the three months to September compared to £1.31bn in the same quarter last year. Data compiled by KPMG Enterprise revealed the UK remained at the top of the [...]
MPs call for £25m funding injection to extend Elizabeth Line to Kent October 11, 2018 MPs and council leaders have called for a £25m funding injection to extend the delayed Elizabeth Line to Ebbsfleet. A cross-party group of MPs, including former defence secretary Michael Fallon, Labour MP Teresa Pearce and Tory MP David Evennett, submitted their Budget submission to rail minister Jo Johnson this morning, in which they asked for the funding injection before the [...]
Earl’s Court incident: Person on track airlifted to safety as station evacuated October 11, 2018 A person appears to have been airlifted to safety after an incident at Earl’s Court Station this morning, with thousands of commuters evacuated from the station as it was temporarily closed. British Transport Police (BTP) reportedly said a person was struck by a train at the station, but it is not clear whether they were [...]
Severe delays hit commuters on District Line and Piccadilly Line due to a person on the track October 11, 2018 Severe delays have struck the District Line and Piccadilly Line this morning due to a person on the track. The District Line is suspended between Turnham Green and Ealing Broadway due to the incident, with tickets being accepted on local bus routes and South Western Railway. Severe delays also hit the Piccadilly Line, which is [...]