- 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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