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[edit] This months Metro
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- London Transport News
- The contracts for the Thameslink upgrade have been awarded to Balfour Beatty including the flagship Blackfriars station rebuild.
- The new Docklands Light Railway trains have been reavealed at West India Quay station on the 13th March 2008.
- Heathrow Terminal 5 opened on the 27th March 2008.
- The TfL website celebrated 1 year since its relaunch on the 22nd March 2007.
- The London Overground will be recieving 7 more 4-car trains in late 2009/early 2010.
- Project News
The new requests section has now opened. A requests section also opened during the WikiProject Underground period but was deamed to complicated and closed within a week.
- Member News
Welcome to the 2 new members that joined during the month of March:
This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
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- Portal
The portal is finally at its peak after over one and a half years! The portal now have many regular voters on which are article and image should be selected.
- Requests
The new requests section has launched, it is now less complicated. Simply click on a category that your request fits in and type your request. It couldn't be simpler.
- Did You Know,...
- ...that in January 2005 London Underground announced that it would play classical music at stations prone to loitering by youths. A trial had shown a 33% drop in abuse against staff. This had been first tried, with success, on the Tyne and Wear Metro.
- ...that Arsenal is the only Underground station named after a London football club (it was previously known as Gillespie Road). Watford is named after the area which it serves, as is West Ham. The nearest station to West Ham United Football Club is Upton Park, the name of West Ham United's Stadium.
- ...that the phrase "Mind the gap" is played when trains stop at stations with curved platforms. It has become the Underground's best-known catchphrase.
- ...that five stations are named after pubs: Angel, Elephant & Castle, Manor House, Royal Oak and Swiss Cottage. There might have been a sixth, as the proposed North End Station (between Hampstead and Golders Green) became known as Bull and Bush for the famous nearby drinking house; the station was abandoned before its completion.
- ...that it is possible to travel through ten stations in a row all beginning with the same letter by starting at Hounslow East, travelling towards Heathrow and round the Heathrow loop and returning to Hounslow East again. Intermediate stations are Hounslow Central, Hounslow West, Hatton Cross, Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3, Heathrow Terminal 4, Hatton Cross again, Hounslow West again, Hounslow Central again, returning to Hounslow East.
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- From the Editors
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The next months metro will be delivered on the 1st of May 2008 Unisouth (talk)
[edit] This months Metro
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- London Transport News
- Route 195 was extended from Ealing Hospital to Brentford County Court.
- TfL pays tribute to The Hon. Gwyneth Dunwoody MP.
- London River Services launches new Spring/Summer timetable.
- London Underground's District line fleet, which has undergone a multi-million pound refurbishment, is now complete and all trains are now back in service for passengers, 11 months early and under budget.
- Project News
- The London Transport Task Forces are here. So far we have one for River Services, with ones for Overground, Underground and DLR in the pipeline... Watch This Space!
- Member News
Welcome to the 4 new members that joined during the month of April:
- Jake the Editor Man
- MiniEntente
- Oxyman42
- xeryus
This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
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- Image bank
The new WikiProject London Transport image bank has launched! This section will be used to store our members images of London Transport to make it easier for visitors and our members themselves to find images they want.
- This months selected image
Watford West railway station, a disused but not formally closed station in Hertfordshire.
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- From the Editor
Lately we have been updated our HTML codes to make our project pages look more modern. Examples of this includes the new Requests page and our main page. We hope to continue this modernisation in order to help our members and visitors have a better expierience looking through our project pages. Also keep an eye out for the 'new look' Metro due in next months issue!
- Contributors to this Issue
- UNI|SOUTH (Joint Newsletter Designer, Joint Lead Editor)
- BG7 (Joint Designer, Joint Lead Editor, Distribution Bot Operator)
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The next months metro will be delivered on the 1st of June 2008 BG7 19:18, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Late-ish hello
Welcome!
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[edit] The latest Metro!
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- London Transport News
- Project News
- We are now standardising many aspects of WPLT such as our categories and templates.
- Three more Task forces have launched - Buses, London Underground and the Docklands Light Railway.
- Member News
Welcome to the 1 new member that joined during the month of May:
Bringing us up to a total of 63 members!
This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
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- Task forces
We now have four task forces in operation.
- River Services
- Docklands Light Railway
- London Buses
- London Underground
- This months selected image
Watford West railway station, a disused but not formally closed station in Hertfordshire.
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- From the editor
Sadly due to editorial issues we couldn't launch our new look Metro this month and I have indefinately postponed it. Thank you for your understanding.
The future of The Metropolitan is currently under review due to the lack of contributions and subscribers. We hope to publish at least one (probably final) issue before the review.
- Contributors to this Issue
- UNI|SOUTH (Joint Newsletter Designer, Joint Lead Editor and distributor)
- BG7even (Joint Newsletter Designer and Joint Lead Editor)
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Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2006!
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Your next issue will arrive on the 1st of July!
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The next Metro wil be delivered on the 1st July! UNI|SOUTH 17:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
