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Joined December 2006
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7 years
Man who closed my neighbourhood police station "very disappointed and mystified" at closure of his neighbourhood police station
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7 years
Very disappointed and mystified at closure of Uxbridge Police Station. Fully support Hillingdon Conservative’s call for rethink
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2 years
TfL are so broke that the new tube map contains five IKEAs
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6 months
How the Overground lines could have been named in 2015, had Boris not blocked it
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4 years
the Tier 2 tube map
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The TfL map of the Lost Rivers of London
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2 years
Now Nike's gone, every single outlet at Hackney Walk (the doomed fashion hub paid for with £1.5m of public money) is now empty.
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The number of HS2 platforms at Euston was going to be 11, most recently 10, but will now be just 6 (ensuring phase 2 can never be built)
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8 months
Never not hilarious
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6 months
The Mildmay line goes nowhere near the Mildmay Hospital. The Windrush line passes within 150m (and the Weaver line within 500m)
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1 year
Bank/Monument station now has a 16th entrance
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2 years
Its job done, @Crossrail has just deleted its Twitter account, taking with it a 12-year stream of thousands of tweets and thousands of images (including this one)
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2 years
Battersea Power Station is open
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11 months
25% of the 13 minute journey from Whitechapel to Paddington is spent not moving
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2 years
On the new tube map, Paddington is a four-blob double-daggered sprawl
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The 211 bus map is impressively wrong
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2 years
75 days until Crossrail becomes two services
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You can now like❤️ this tweet without anybody else seeing
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the dangleway has evolved
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The beyond-ULEZ tube map
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4 years
Other games consoles are available
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4 years
December in London
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When you remembered Kentish Town and Iver but the designer originally didn't
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1 year
The undergroundiest Underground lines
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2 years
Sixteen London bus routes are to be withdrawn by the end of next year: 4, 11, 12, 14, 16, 24, 31, 45, 72, 74, 78, 242, 349, 521, C3, D7
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2 years
Don't forget to enjoy the traditional St Crossrail's Eve supper before you go to bed tonight 💜
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Luxury travel
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4 years
The Regent's Canal is 200 years old today
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3 years
The only road sign in Britain to reference the A1, A2, A3 and A4 #WhitechapelHighStreet
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Poplar - the moquette to be used on the new DLR trains
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1 year
Well I wouldn't have numbered the Superloop like that
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4 years
Britain's lowest-numbered A road (the A1) meets Britain's lowest numbered B road (the B100) outside Barbican tube station
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4 years
When's Crossrail opening? (a running history)
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1 year
Here we go… it’s time to name the Overground lines! See here:
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8 years
Official TfL map showing all tube tracks, platforms, crossovers, depots & ghost stns (17MB)
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The 10 most popular journeys between tube stations in 2023
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3 years
New tube stations means new tube map
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1 year
If you live in East London, tonight's your last post-9pm sunset until May 2024. If you live in West London you've got one more tomorrow.
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6 years
Thanks to @dracos , you can now watch tube trains shuffling around London on this live map
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1 year
This is quite the rebranding exercise #Superloop
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6 years
Two angry Whitehall demos - one schoolchildren trying to save the planet, the other old men queueing in diesels
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2 years
The most popular journey on the tube is Brixton to Oxford Circus
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6 years
Now open, the new station entrance at Hackney Wick (birthplace of plastic)
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4 years
Happy 10th birthday to the bus map outside Canning Town station. Is it London’s oldest?
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2 years
It's 50 years since Brentrance
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1 year
These ticket office proposals are quite savage
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1 year
The City's newest highwalk ends in midair because the building at one end has been demolished
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4 years
The official Twitters have been swapped
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2 years
There have been six dates with identical digits so far this century, but for the rest of your life they'll only occur every 11 years.
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The new entrance to Stratford station has just opened
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Adverts have triumphed over train times at Euston station
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2 years
it's quite nice 💜
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2 years
Magnetic north, true north and grid north align over Great Britain for the first time in history
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8 years
Safety advice from the John Lewis trampolines webpage: "You should never put live animals and pets on a trampoline."
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5 years
There are no local elections in London today. You'd hope a former Mayor of London would know this.
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2 years
I buy the same diary every year 2019: £5.99 2020: £6.99 2021: £6.99 2022: £7.99 2023: £9.99
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2 years
2022 is our first ten-bank-holiday year
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1 year
The Conservatives have now been in power for 1 day longer than New Labour
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9 months
One of the creepiest signs I have ever seen
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2 years
nothing says British like waiting in drizzle draped in a flag three hours early with M&S sandwiches cheering as the portaloos go by
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2 years
Crossrail's opening date is somewhere in the purple box, just saying
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The tube map at White City bus station hasn't been replaced since 2009
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The DLR Strikes Back
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2 years
Not looking so cocky now, eh, Olympic Park daffodil?
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Where to sit on a Crossrail train (don't sit in the middle)
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Circular tube map now appearing at certain Circle line stations (for contrived sponsorship reasons)
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4 years
I can’t believe it’s not butter
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6 years
I wonder what brought that on...
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5 years
A 13 year-old has now lived through five UK Prime Ministers. A 40 year-old has only lived through seven.
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5 years
Next week Britain's worst Prime Minister, who replaced Britain's worst Prime Minister, will be replaced by Britain's worst Prime Minister
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Banksy's aquarium on Ludgate Hill
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The annual Least Used Stations league table
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3 years
Today is probably the third and final time you'll celebrate Easter on April 4th
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1 year
The tube map is now IKEA-less (and has a dagger at Kentish Town, which will be closed from 26 June until summer 2024)
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2 years
The Elizabeth line's first engineering works have been announced. They include a full Saturday closure of the central section just 18 days after it opens.
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London's cycle-flagship Quietway 2
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Today is only a bank holiday because George VI was a heavy smoker.
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2 years
It’s like Westfield, but Grade II* listed
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Westfield is now a hoodie-less zone
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The elevator labyrinth at Tottenham Court Road station
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Price of the Christmas Radio Times over the last 20 years
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Thameslink is the newest intrusion on the tube map
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I can't remember the last time Boris Johnson announced something we didn't already know
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2 years
Length of tenure as Prime Minister Boris Johnson: 2 years 346 days Neville Chamberlain: 2 years 348 days Theresa May: 3 years 11 days
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TfL have signed a 2 year sponsorship deal to rename the Dangleway as the "IFS Cloud Cable Car", and nobody except TfL will call it that
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Elizabeth line timetables have been published
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Seven new period rooms at the Museum of the Home have just opened. Here’s 1978, 2005, 2024 and 2049.
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At Theobalds Grove station, @LDNOverground contractors are currently installing signs WITH THE WRONG SPELLING http://t.co/Hmkyqn3jLj
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Liverpool and Manchester are the same distance apart as Heathrow and Upminster
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London's newest walking route, the 18 mile Green Link Walk linking Walthamstow to Peckham, launches today (a cousin to the Capital Ring, London Loop, etc). Here's a link to 45 pages of route description
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Today’s the day! Heading out to meet @willnorman @TfL @FootwaysLondon @LDN_LS @CPRELondon @gojauntly & others at the launch of London’s newest walking route, the #GreenLinkWalk this morning- the 1st of 6 new Greenways we campaigned for
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From June 28th the Dangleway will be operated by FirstGroup (who also run Avanti West Coast, London Tramlink and a lot of buses)
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is 18 years old today @diamondgzrblog
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Prince Charles delighted by Crossrail name change
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10 years ago the Conservatives on the London Assembly proposed introducing sponsored station names to raise funds for the tube. Today one of these (temporarily) happened
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Public opinion in the Lambeth Country Show Veg Tent seems to prefer Kale Marx, just ahead of Carrot Southgate
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U-boat sighted in River Thames
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Sunset in London will now be after 8pm until the last weekend in August
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7 years
Here's where the Garden Bridge won't be built
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A perfect unbranded copy of the circular tube map
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Less than 100 hours of Tory government left
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After making a special effort to nab the @elizabethline account off an American businesswoman four years ago, TfL have quietly deleted it (along with everything it ever tweeted)
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