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New seating at Gallions Reach

New seating has been installed at Gallions Reach station. These new metallic seating has replaced the DLR theme coloured seating. Looks nice!

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Signs of Air-Line cable car seen

As one travels round the Canning Town area evidence of the Emirates Air-Line cable car route can be seen. This view from the local Silvertown Viaduct near Royal Victoria DLR station shows one of the pillars for the Air-Line route.

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Kensington (Olympia) restriction in place

On the new line diagrams at Embankment, they have already shown Kensington (Olympia) station as restricted service in preparation for the new timetable from 11 December (Sunday). Kensington (Olympia) will operate a weekend service and special running on exhibition days.

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The Emirates Air-Line appears on Tube Map

The new cable car service to link the Greenwich peninsula with the north side of the Docklands named the Emirates Air-Line has made its appearance on the Tube Map. The short overhead link which will see two stations at Emirates Greenwich Peninsula and Royal Victoria (with interchanges for the Jubilee line and the DLR respectively) is currently under construction and is due to open in 2012. The line has been given a dark pink colour.

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Good news – GOBLIN gets roundels!

As reported by us yesterday, the Gospel Oak to Barking Line (GOBLIN) of the London Overground will be getting roundels to represent station names on platforms. We had assumed (quite worryingly) that the stations on this rather isolated section would have fascias instead. Two indications of fascias instead of roundels caught our attention.

Firstly, when TfL took over Silverlink services it replaced the Silverlink branded station fascias with its own black lettering on orange versions complete with Overground labelled roundel and bearing in small letters at the lower right corner ‘Temporary sign’.

In recent weeks it appeared that TfL were quite fond of these poorly designed fascias that it covered up the writing: ‘Temporary sign’ implying they may be permanent.

To make matters worse, TfL decided to manufacture permanent versions of these fascias as evidenced by the grey plastic frame and quality vitreous enamel of these signs.

And to add insult to injury, Blackhorse Road was given a whole batch of fascias that had a red instead of orange background, red ring Overground labelled roundels and the lettering was not in TfL’s New Johnston!

So it came with great delight that TfL announced that it would be replacing all these awful fascias with roundels as found at all other London Overground stations and bring about the much coveted consistency that TfL are known for when it comes to their branding and livery.

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What If bus stops had stop name roundels?

In the latest of our ‘What If’ series of articles we imagine how TfL might decide to implement roundels at bus stops. Discover what we thought we’d come up with in this imaginary scenario by clicking here.

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Gospel Oak to Barking to receive roundels

Most of the London Overground stations have received station refurbishments and new signage across the network. However one of the last sections of line that have not received any new signage has been of the Gospel Oak to Barking line. Although new line diagrams and other station signage have been put up, the familiar London Overground roundel signs which are found on the other parts of the network have not been mounted. For a while, the line has had temporary signage (like the one seen at Crouch Hill above) and for one point even looked as if it was going to be a permanent feature.

However, London Overground Rail Operations Ltd (LOROL) announced recently that they will indeed improve the signage on the Gospel Oak to Barking line with brand new roundel name signs coming. The improvements will happen by the end of the year. On one note, it will be interesting how some of the station names will come out, with the likes of Wanstead Park and Crouch Hill looking good on a roundel, it will interesting how the likes of Harringay Green Lanes and even Walthamstow Queen’s Road will read on a roundel!

We will be looking at the progress of these works in the next few weeks and will bring you all the news as soon as we get it.

 

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Overground to see increased services from December

The London Overground train frequencies will be improved from this December 2011. There will be more trains in operation during the peak period, evenings and weekends. As an example, four more trains per hour will be introduced on the network between Highbury & Islington and Dalston Junction. Close monitoring will take place to ensure the new timetables work well.

Chief Operating Officer at London Rail, Howard Smith said:

We have been working closely with our operator, London Overground Rail Operations Limited and Network Rail to find a way to ease crowding and I am delighted that we are able to implement these services so soon.

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Movie posters banned

Transport for London have banned posters for the forthcoming British movie, ‘SKET’. The thriller film, directed by Nirpal Bhogal and starring Ashley Walters and Lily Loveless centres around violence committed against and by teenage females also had its advertising barred from the local free newspaper, Metro. The first of the posters attaches the blame of a ‘broken Britain’ on well known political figures including Mayor of London, Boris Johnson while the second is more graphic appearing to show Prime Minister, David Cameron struck down by a group of females with the tag line: “So Mr Cameron…do you still want to hug a hoodie?”

 

Last month, TfL banned posters advertising Metallica and Rou Leed’s collaborative album, Lulu which was deemed too close to street graffiti.

 

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Tube Map Update – August 2011

Find out more about the changes between the latest incarnation of the Tube Map and the last in our current Tube Map Update.

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