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London Transport News

For more information see: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/3119.aspx (most times)

Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

March 2010 Mayor and TfL: Arbiter's directions show PPP is 'not delivering for Londoners and taxpayers'

Transport for London has awarded the morning free newspaper contract to Metro

With the installation of three new lifts, Hainault tube station is now a step-free access station.

TfL introduces new facility to help reduce the number of defaced Zip photocards in circulation

Vehicle testing fees will now be cheaper.

An innovative new campaign called "THINK!" is launched to cut motorcyclist deaths

February 2010

• Motorcycling is to get safer with the creation of the London Motorcycle Policy Unit, a division of the Metropolitan Police that is a new dedicated team of motorcycle safety experts working to reduce motorcycle casualties across the Capital.

• Major improvement works set for the New Cross area

• Smart Travel Sutton scheme sees a 75% increase in cycling and sustainable transport usage in the brough of Sutton

• Taxi fares to increase by 2.3 per cent to meet higher running costs

• New Pegasus crossings intalled over A3 between Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park

• Bounds Green has gained Grade II Listed status from English Heritage

Member News

• No new members
• Tyw7 (talk · contribs) has an alternate account named Ty4w7 (talk · contribs).

This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

General

Baker Street and Waterloo Railway is now a featured article and Upminster Bridge tube station is also now a good article. BOAC Flight 712 has also bee nominated for Good article status. North Greenwich railway station was proposed for being moved but faced with opposition, this did not happen.

The portal went through a candidacy for featured portal with not much luck. The areas of the portal are becoming more active with the voting and changing of the selected pictures and articles. The transport news seems has started to be updated again but with the most up-to-date news being in this newsletter. Did you know is being improved. The portal has had a new selected biography section added to bring it up to standard. Please vote at Portal:London Transport/Vote. The current biography is Charles Pearson.

As usual all suggestions to improving the Metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.

Please also could people submit suggestions for DYKs or does anyone want to do the next issue?

This month's selected image

Central London Railway poster, published in 1905.

This month's gallery of images (selected by User:Tyw7)

• 
  The interior of the Virgin Trains Class 390 Pendolino
• 
  The interior of Woolwich foot tunnel
• 
  Woolwich foot tunnel North entrance
• 
  The new B07/09 rolling stock at Poplar DLR station.
• 
  Three Transdev London buses lined up, decorated for the Kingston park and ride.
• 
  A Northern Line train leaving the tunnel just north of Hendon Central station.
• 
  The London Eye
• 
  Model of a London underground carriage in Miniland.
• 
  Class 378 unit with London Overground livery calls at the brand new Imperial Wharf railway station.
• 
  The old London Overground British Rail Class 313 unit with the old Silverlink livery with the London Overground pasted on

From the editor

Hello and Happy New Year from me and generally the London Transport project.

Thank you to Tyw7 for doing many of the March updates

If you think there is anything else i have missed, please drop me a note or leave a message at The Metropolitan's feedback page. Also if you feel you want to do an edition, again leave me a message.

Again i would like to state this newsletter is looking for anyone willing to do an issue.

Also, i apologise for those people who have been removed from the subscrition list. However, there has been long concerns by me as to who was receiving this, if people had created an account just to receive the newsletter and other things. However, you may still receive the newsletter if you just drop a message or readd yourself. This issue however does not concern people who have recently subscribed. This will also go to people who have expressed they want to keep receiving the newsletter. Thank you.

Contributors to this Issue

• Simply south (talk) - (Editor and Distibutor)
• Tyw7 (talk · contribs) - (Guest contributor)

Improving Wikipedia one edit at a time!

Assessment

Featured Articles & Lists Albert Bridge, London Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Battersea Bridge Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Chelsea Bridge City and South London Railway Edgar Speyer Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway London congestion charge Richmond Bridge, London Vauxhall Bridge List of London Underground stations Timeline of the London Underground

FAC/FLC
None

Good Articles A1 road (London) A215 road British Airways Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Charles Pearson Chiswick Bridge Eurostar Hammerton's Ferry High Speed 1 London Paddington station Upminster Bridge tube station Wandsworth Bridge Wimbledon and Sutton Railway

GAC

• South Kensington tube station
• BOAC Flight 712

A
None

Other assessment notes

• Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was promoted to featured article status in January 2010. Well done to all involved.

• Upminster Bridge tube station was promoted to good article status in early February. Well done to all those involved. This is apparently the first tube station to be accepted as a Good Article. Also, High Speed 1 retained its GA status.

• Both South Kensington tube station and BOAC Flight 712 are Good Article candidates. Good luck!

• Portal:London Transport was nominated for featured portal status with no success

• All articles have been assessed of their quality with only some of the articles' importance to the project yet to be determined. Well done on the assessment.

Other announcements

• Tyw7 requests help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

• MRSC requests help with improving North and West London Light Railway and West London Orbital

• WikiProject London Transport has been added to a project that has generated a list of the most visited pages related to this project. These can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages.

• requested to be updated

• Discussion arose over the addition or removal of succession boxes showing the present London Underground lines and their histories as well as former services. Another discussion arose on boxes showing stations layouts

• Separate issues arose over the population of aboandoned London Undeground projects categories and categories on single station platforms

• New guidelines have been proposed for railway accidents. Please see WP:RAILCRASH.

Did you know...

• ...that the Underground's architect Charles Holden and LPTB Managing Director Frank Pick were both sons of drapers?
• ...that Blackfriars Underground station (opened 1870) pre-dates the main line station by sixteen years?
• ...that the Westway, the West Cross Route and the East Cross Route are the only parts of the GLC's 1960s plan for the London Motorway Box that were built?
• ...that prior to the transfer of most of the route to the Central line in 1947, the Fairlop Loop saw circular services running from Liverpool Street to Stratford to Ilford to Woodford to Stratford to Liverpool Street?
• ...that Belsize Park station is one of the only eight stations in London to have a deep level bomb shelter beneath it?
• …that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
• ...that Greenford station has the only remaining wooden escalator on the London Underground?
• ...that There are only two tube stations which have all five vowels in them - Mansion House station and South Ealing station.
• ...that the Docklands Light Railway rolling stock is capable of travelling 100 km/h (62 mph)?
• ... that after World War II, designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs?
• ... that that the London Underground's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches?

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London Transport News

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Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

April

• Penton Street TfL counter to close

• New Sunday service on bus route 607

March

• London Cye Hire scheme to be launched on 30 July

• 50 more hybrid buses to be dispatched

• Taxi fares to rise by 2.3% on April 10

• Transport Select Committee confirms the London Underground's Public-Private Partnership has not been delivering value for money.

• £9.2 billion approved towards the completion of several of the major transport projects in London: East London Line extension, Jubilee Line upgrade, London Cycle Hire scheme, two Cycle Superhighways and 50 per cent boost to capacity of busiest DLR route.

• London Bus Awards 2010 celebrated

• Scooter safety urged for drivers to join the ScooterSafe initiative advised as well as warnings for teenagers on the changes of Daylight Savings

• Frameworks set up to speed up delivery of electric vehicles in London by TfL

• TfL's Travel Information Centre celebrated its 70th anniversary with the opening of a new centre at King's Cross St Pancras station

• £11.5 miilion to be used in six boroughs for improvements in the run up to the Olympic games

• Sutton High Street closed for 10 weeks for gas maintenance

• A £6 million facelift of Woolwich town centre is completed.

• Vision outlined on new trains and a better system for the London Underground

• A new map is launched showing coach parking close to major landmarks

• A taxi rank in Cranbourne Street is to be moved to Haymarket to curb touting

• Mayor and TfL: Arbiter's directions show PPP is 'not delivering for Londoners and taxpayers'

• Transport for London has awarded the morning free newspaper contract to Metro

• With the installation of three new lifts, Hainault tube station is now a step-free access station.

• TfL introduces new facility to help reduce the number of defaced Zip photocards in circulation

• Vehicle testing fees will now be cheaper.

• An innovative new campaign called "THINK!" is launched to cut motorcyclist deaths

Member News

• Lidos (talk · contribs) joined us in March, bringing the total number of participants to 79. A very warm welcome to them.

• Tyw7 (talk · contribs) has an alternate account named Ty4w7 (talk · contribs).

This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

General

BOAC Flight 712 has been nominated again for Good article status. South Kensington tube station and Central London Railway were both promoted to Good articles although the latter is now a featured article candidate. It seems as though this month has been slighly more eventful.

The portal went through a candidacy for featured portal with not much luck. The areas of the portal are becoming more active with the voting and changing of the selected pictures and articles. The transport news seems has started to be updated again but with the most up-to-date news being in this newsletter. Did you know is being improved. The portal has had a new selected biography section added to bring it up to standard. Please vote at Portal:London Transport/Vote. The current biography is Charles Pearson.

As usual all suggestions to improving the Metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.

Please also could people submit suggestions for DYKs or does anyone want to do the next issue?

This month's selected image

Vauxhall Bridge across the River Thames opened in 1906 and features sculptures by F. W. Pomeroy.

This month's gallery of images (selected by User:Tyw7)

• 
  The interior of the Virgin Trains Class 390 Pendolino
• 
  The interior of Woolwich foot tunnel
• 
  Woolwich foot tunnel North entrance
• 
  The new B07/09 rolling stock at Poplar DLR station.
• 
  Three Transdev London buses lined up, decorated for the Kingston park and ride.
• 
  A Northern Line train leaving the tunnel just north of Hendon Central station.
• 
  The London Eye
• 
  Model of a London underground carriage in Miniland.
• 
  Class 378 unit with London Overground livery calls at the brand new Imperial Wharf railway station.
• 
  The old London Overground British Rail Class 313 unit with the old Silverlink livery with the London Overground pasted on

From the editor

Thank you to Tyw7 for doing many of the March updates

If you think there is anything else i have missed, please drop me a note or leave a message at The Metropolitan's feedback page. Also if you feel you want to do an edition, again leave me a message.

Again i would like to state this newsletter is looking for anyone willing to do an issue.

Also, i apologise for those people who have been removed from the subscrition list. However, there has been long concerns by me as to who was receiving this, if people had created an account just to receive the newsletter and other things. However, you may still receive the newsletter if you just drop a message or readd yourself. This issue however does not concern people who have recently subscribed. This will also go to people who have expressed they want to keep receiving the newsletter. Thank you.

Contributors to this Issue

• Simply south (talk) - (Editor and Distibutor)

Improving Wikipedia one edit at a time!

Assessment

Featured Articles & Lists Albert Bridge, London Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Battersea Bridge Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Chelsea Bridge City and South London Railway Edgar Speyer Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway London congestion charge Richmond Bridge, London Vauxhall Bridge List of London Underground stations Timeline of the London Underground

FAC/FLC

• Central London Railway

Good Articles A1 road (London) A215 road British Airways Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Charles Pearson Chiswick Bridge Eurostar Hammerton's Ferry High Speed 1 London Paddington station South Kensington tube station Upminster Bridge tube station Wandsworth Bridge Wimbledon and Sutton Railway

GAC

• BOAC Flight 712

A
None

Other assessment notes

• Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was promoted to featured article status in January 2010. Well done to all involved.

• Upminster Bridge tube station was promoted to good article status in early February. Well done to all those involved. This is apparently the first tube station to be accepted as a Good Article. Also, High Speed 1 retained its GA status.

• BOAC Flight 712 was previously nominated for Good Article candidacy but failed. However another attempt is being made. Good luck!

• Central London Railway was promoted to Good article status in early April and is now also an featured article candidate. also South Kensington tube station was prmoted at this time to GA.

• Portal:London Transport was nominated for featured portal status with no success

• All articles have been assessed of their quality with only some of the articles' importance to the project yet to be determined. Well done on the assessment.

Other announcements

• Tyw7 requests help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

• MRSC requests help with improving North and West London Light Railway and West London Orbital

• WikiProject London Transport has been added to a project that has generated a list of the most visited pages related to this project. These can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages.

• requested to be updated

• Discussion arose over the addition or removal of succession boxes showing the present London Underground lines and their histories as well as former services. Another discussion arose on boxes showing stations layouts. This has reslted in many of thwe succession boxes being removed from articles.

• Separate issues arose over the population of aboandoned London Undeground projects categories and categories on single station platforms

• New guidelines have been proposed for railway accidents. Please see WP:RAILCRASH.

• Major discussions arose over the notability of many London bus routes, which resulted in some routes being kept and some being deleted. Please leave your comments at WT:LT#London bus route articles and WT:BUS.

• Another discussion as well as straw poll has been on whether the frequency of trains per hour should be added. See WT:TWP#Should station articles (the Services section) include trains-per-hour figures?.

Did you know...

• that at 44 tons, the locomotives of the Central London Railway's first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?
• ...that bus company London Country North East lost over £5 million in less than two years of existence before it was split up in 1989?
• ...that the Underground's architect Charles Holden and LPTB Managing Director Frank Pick were both sons of drapers?
• ...that Blackfriars Underground station (opened 1870) pre-dates the main line station by sixteen years?
• ...that the Westway, the West Cross Route and the East Cross Route are the only parts of the GLC's 1960s plan for the London Motorway Box that were built?
• ...that prior to the transfer of most of the route to the Central line in 1947, the Fairlop Loop saw circular services running from Liverpool Street to Stratford to Ilford to Woodford to Stratford to Liverpool Street?
• ...that Belsize Park station is one of the only eight stations in London to have a deep level bomb shelter beneath it?
• …that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
• ...that Greenford station has the only remaining wooden escalator on the London Underground?
• ...that There are only two tube stations which have all five vowels in them - Mansion House station and South Ealing station.
• ...that the Docklands Light Railway rolling stock is capable of travelling 100 km/h (62 mph)?
• ... that after World War II, designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs?
• ... that that the London Underground's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches?

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London Transport News

For more information see: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/3119.aspx (most times)

Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

June

• The North London Line fully reopens are completion of upgrade work

May

• London Underground and the Royal Society for the protection of Birds (RSPB) team up to launch wildlife competition to encourage people to use the Underground for nature spotting.

• Barclays to sponsor London Cycle Hire scheme

• LED traffic light installations across London to begin this August

• The final consultation of the scrappage of the western extension of the Congestion Charge begins

• TfL and the Mayor are encouraging Londoners to sign up to the London Cycle Challenge this June

• Tfl wins a prestigious award from the Royal Institute of Brital Architects for the East London Transit

• The first of five hydrogen buses in London is currently unmdergoing testing in Bedfordshire

• Weekend service introduced on the East London Line

• Blackwall tunnel southbound to close for five weekends in the year for vital upgrade work

• A series of artworks are commission for the Jubillee Line as part of Art on the Underground, the first of which is shown at City Hall until 10 June. Also, for twelve months a digital moving image installation is installed at Canary Wharf tube station.

• Tube Lines becomes a subsidary of Transport for London after the aquisition of its shares

April

• Marshalled taxi ranks at O2 on Thursday to Sunday nights when there is an event

• More busking licenses available for tube stations

• East London Line reopens with new stations at Dalston Junction, Hoxton, Haggerston and Shoreditch High Street

• Tour of Britain cycle race to return in September

• Talks on 14 and 15 May to discuss improvements to Blackwall Tunnel to be held at the O2

• London Underground has been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard in recognition towards its work to wards carbon efficiency

• Oxford Circus to become exit and interchange only weekday mornings to give time to replace some of its escalators

• Junction improvement means changes to bus services in Herne Hill

• EDF Energy awarded power upgrade for sub-surface lines

• Tube Lines and shareholders, Ferrovial and Bechtel, must demonstrate plans are robust and prove Tube Lines is creditworthy, as challenged by the Mayor and TfL

• Penton Street TfL counter to close

• New Sunday service on bus route 607

Member News

• Both Alzarian16 (talk · contribs) and Sillybillypiggy (talk · contribs) joined us in April, bringing the total number of participants to 81. A very warm welcome to them.

• Tyw7 (talk · contribs) has an alternate account named Ty4w7 (talk · contribs).

This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

General

Nearly 10 articles were promoted to either Good Article status and featured article status or had these when added to the project.

The portal went through a candidacy for featured portal with not much luck. The areas of the portal are becoming more active with the the voting and changing of the selected pictures and articles. The transport news seems has started to be updated again but with the most up-to-date news being in this newsletter. Did you know is being improved. The portal has had a new selected biography section added to bring it up to standard. Please vote at Portal:London Transport/Vote. The current biography is Charles Pearson.

As usual all suggestions to improving the Metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.

Please also could people submit suggestions for DYKs or does anyone want to do the next issue?

This month's selected image

55 Broadway, headquarters of the UERL and its successors, is a Grade I listed building in Westminster designed by Charles Holden.

This month's gallery of images (selected by User:Simply south)

• 
  Notice to military personnel crossing Albert Bridge
• 
  Tie arch bridge crossing Regent's Canal
• 
  Under the Dollis Brook Viaduct arches
• 
  A Routemaster bus in 2002
• 
  Curling Bridge in Paddington Basin, built in 2004.
• 
  A fuel-cell bus on London Buses route RV1
• 
  First generation DLR in 1987.
• 
  A bike in floodwater around Richmond Bridge
• 
  A London Underground 2009 Stock arriving at King's Cross St Pancras tube station.
• 
  A 1938 London Underground Stock special passing through North Ealing tube station in 2008.
• 
  London City Airport near the O2 Arena and London Docklands
• 
  Wheelchair racers in 2010 London Marathon

From the editor

If you think there is anything else i have missed, please drop me a note or leave a message at The Metropolitan's feedback page. Also if you feel you want to do an edition, again leave me a message.

Again i would like to state this newsletter is looking for anyone willing to do an issue.

Sincere apologies for not doing an issue last month. Thi was due to being very busy but when i had the next available time it landed in the middle if the month. Therefore i decided that i would try and get this back to its original roots of being at the start of the month and so waited a couple of weeks. Again i am sorry for the wait.

I have also had to give less detail on some reports as the Article Alert Bot is currently down.

Contributors to this Issue

• Simply south (talk) - (Editor and Distibutor)

Improving Wikipedia one edit at a time!

Assessment

Featured Articles & Lists Albert Bridge, London Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Battersea Bridge Brill railway station Central London Railway Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Chelsea Bridge City and South London Railway Edgar Speyer Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway London congestion charge Richmond Bridge, London Vauxhall Bridge Westcott railway station List of London Underground stations Timeline of the London Underground

FAC/FLC

Good Articles A1 road (London) A215 road Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield BOAC Flight 712 British Airways Charles Pearson Chiswick Bridge Eurostar Gloucester Road tube station Hammerton's Ferry High Speed 1 London Country North Western London Paddington station South Kensington tube station Upminster Bridge tube station Waddesdon Road railway station Wandsworth Bridge Wimbledon and Sutton Railway Wood Siding railway station

GAC

A
None

Other assessment notes

• In the previous two months the following were promoted to Featured Article status (or added to the project with that status): Brill railway station, Westcott railway station and Central London Railway. Well done to all involved.

• Also, the following were promoted to good article status (or added): Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, Gloucester Road tube station, Wood Siding railway station, Waddesdon Road railway station and London Country North Western. Well done to all involved.

• Portal:London Transport was nominated for featured portal status with no success

• Almost all articles have been assessed of their quality and importance to the project. Well done to everyone on the assessment.

Other announcements

• Tyw7 requests help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

• MRSC requests help with improving North and West London Light Railway and West London Orbital

• WikiProject London Transport has been added to a project that has generated a list of the most visited pages related to this project. These can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages.

• requested to be updated

• New guidelines have been proposed for railway accidents. Please see WP:RAILCRASH.

• Major discussions arose over the notability of many London bus routes, which resulted in some routes being kept and some being deleted. Please leave your comments at WT:LT#London bus route articles and WT:BUS. This has essentially ground to a halt.

• Another discussion as well as straw poll has been on whther the frequency of trains per hour should be added. It appeared there was no consensus.

• New usage data has been given by TfL for the London Underground for 2009

• Finally a minor issue arose on the colour of London Overground.

Did you know...

• that at 44 tons, the locomotives of the Central London Railway's first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?
• ...that bus company London Country North East lost over £5 million in less than two years of existence before it was split up in 1989?
• ...that the Underground's architect Charles Holden and LPTB Managing Director Frank Pick were both sons of drapers?
• ...that Blackfriars Underground station (opened 1870) pre-dates the main line station by sixteen years?
• ...that the Westway, the West Cross Route and the East Cross Route are the only parts of the GLC's 1960s plan for the London Ringways#Ringway 1London Motorway Box that were built?
• ...that prior to the transfer of most of the route to the Central line in 1947, the Fairlop Loop saw circular services running from Liverpool Street to Stratford to Ilford to Woodford to Stratford to Liverpool Street?
• ...that Belsize Park station is one of the only eight stations in London to have a deep level bomb shelter beneath it?
• …that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
• ...that Greenford station has the only remaining wooden escalator on the London Underground?
• ...that There are only two tube stations which have all five vowels in them - Mansion House station and South Ealing station.
• ...that the Docklands Light Railway rolling stock is capable of travelling 100 km/h (62 mph)?
• ... that after World War II, designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs?
• ... that that the London Underground's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches?
• ... that at 44 tons, the locomotives of the Central London Railway`s first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?

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Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

July

• New safety measures announced for safety with cyclists around lorries

• New cable car system announced in the Thames Gateway area

• Southfields stations becomes step-free

• Fewer delays in cars being held up by traffic lights

June

• Bus crime lowest in six years

• Early closure of Northern Line cancelled

• Exhibition at Aldwych until July 9th

• More air-conditioned Underground and Overground trains on their way

• New electric vehicles with special livery to distinguish them join the taxis

• Hammersmith & City and Circle to close between 24th July and 15th August for upgrade work as well as works to do with Paddington station and Crossrail

• Rotherhithe tunnel to be southbound during weekend closures

• New Digital Countdowns to be trialled telling people how long they have to cross the road

• Deaths and serious injuries on roads half that of a decade ago in London

• Improvements such as maps, signs and timetables as well as flags showing "River Buses" for commuter boats and "River Tours" for tourists to be introduced

• Motorcycles to trial using bus lanes

• First docking station for cycling scheme installed on the Capital's streets

• Information from TfL to be used for commercial gain freely

• TfL is not to occupy the Shard

• Bank, Charing Cross, Earl's Court, Green Park, Holborn, Hyde Park Corner, Knightsbridge, Liverpool Street, Moorgate and Victoria are to reduce energy usage for the 10:10 campaign

• £700 million set for Victoria Underground to be redeveloped as contract is awarded

• A new police task force has been set up to deal with stolen or damaged bicycles

• New Chief Executive Officer for Tube Lines

• A new set of poems are on display on London Underground trains

• The southern roundabout at Elephant& Castle will be removed by October and converted into a signalised junction

• The North London Line fully reopens are completion of upgrade work

Member News

• Both Alzarian16 (talk · contribs) and Sillybillypiggy (talk · contribs) joined us in April, bringing the total number of participants to 81. A very warm welcome to them.

This WikiProject would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

General

Three articles were promoted to Good Article status in June and July. One also gained featured article status in June. Well done to everybody who worked on these.

The portal went through a candidacy for featured portal with not much luck. The areas of the portal are becoming more active with the the voting and changing of the selected pictures and articles. The transport news seems has started to be updated again but with the most up-to-date news being in this newsletter. Did you know is being improved. The portal has had a new selected biography section added to bring it up to standard. Please vote at Portal:London Transport/Vote.

As usual all suggestions to improving the Metropolitan are welcome so if you have one we would be happy to hear from you.

Please also could people submit suggestions for DYKs or does anyone want to do the next issue?

This month's selected image

Ruislip Lido Railway's 12-inch (300 mm) gauge locomotive "Mad Bess" hauling a passenger train.

This month's gallery of images (selected by User:Simply south)

• 
  Notice to military personnel crossing Albert Bridge
• 
  Tie arch bridge crossing Regent's Canal
• 
  Under the Dollis Brook Viaduct arches
• 
  A Routemaster bus in 2002
• 
  Curling Bridge in Paddington Basin, built in 2004.
• 
  A fuel-cell bus on London Buses route RV1
• 
  First generation DLR in 1987.
• 
  A bike in floodwater around Richmond Bridge
• 
  A London Underground 2009 Stock arriving at King's Cross St Pancras tube station.
• 
  A 1938 London Underground Stock special passing through North Ealing tube station in 2008.
• 
  London City Airport near the O2 Arena and London Docklands
• 
  Wheelchair racers in 2010 London Marathon

From the editor

If you think there is anything else i have missed, please drop me a note or leave a message at The Metropolitan's feedback page. Also if you feel you want to do an edition, again leave me a message.

Again i would like to state this newsletter is looking for anyone willing to do an issue. This is especially for August as i am going to be too busy. I may not be able to do September either. Please help.

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Contributors to this Issue

• Simply south (talk) - (Editor and Distibutor)

Improving Wikipedia one edit at a time!

Assessment

Featured Articles & Lists Albert Bridge, London Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Battersea Bridge Brill railway station Central London Railway Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Chelsea Bridge City and South London Railway Edgar Speyer Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway London congestion charge Richmond Bridge, London Vauxhall Bridge Waddesdon Road railway station Westcott railway station List of London Underground stations Timeline of the London Underground

FAC/FLC

Good Articles A1 road (London) A215 road Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield BOAC Flight 712 British Airways Charles Pearson Chiswick Bridge Eurostar Gloucester Road tube station Hammerton's Ferry High Speed 1 Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet London Country North Western London Paddington station South Kensington tube station Upminster Bridge tube station Wandsworth Bridge Westminster tube station Wimbledon and Sutton Railway Wood Siding railway station Wotton (Metropolitan Railway) railway station

GAC

• Underground Electric Railways Company of London

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Other assessment notes

Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet and Wotton (Metropolitan Railway) railway station were promoted to Good Article status in June and Westminster tube station in July. Congratulations to all people involved. Waddesdon Road railway station gained featured article status in June. Again well done to everybody who worked on these.

Underground Electric Railways Company of London is a Good Article candidate

• All articles have been assessed of their quality and importance to the project. Well done to everyone on the assessment.

Other announcements

• Tyw7 requests help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

• MRSC requests help with improving North and West London Light Railway and West London Orbital

• For a list of the most visited pages related to this project see Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages.

• requested to be updated

• New guidelines have been proposed for railway accidents. Please see WP:RAILCRASH.

• Major discussions arose over the notability of many London bus routes, which resulted in some routes being kept and some being deleted. Please leave your comments at WT:LT#London bus route articles and WT:BUS. This has essentially ground to a halt.

• Another discussion as well as straw poll has been on whther the frequency of trains per hour should be added. It appeared there was no consensus.

• New usage data has been given by TfL for the London Underground for 2009

• A small discussion talk places regarding which project banners should be placed on London Underground navboxes.

Did you know...

• that at 44 tons, the locomotives of the Central London Railway's first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?
• ...that bus company London Country North East lost over £5 million in less than two years of existence before it was split up in 1989?
• ...that the Underground's architect Charles Holden and LPTB Managing Director Frank Pick were both sons of drapers?
• ...that Blackfriars Underground station (opened 1870) pre-dates the main line station by sixteen years?
• ...that the Westway, the West Cross Route and the East Cross Route are the only parts of the GLC's 1960s plan for the London Motorway Box that were built?
• ...that prior to the transfer of most of the route to the Central line in 1947, the Fairlop Loop saw circular services running from Liverpool Street to Stratford to Ilford to Woodford to Stratford to Liverpool Street?
• ...that Belsize Park station is one of the only eight stations in London to have a deep level bomb shelter beneath it?
• …that Mile End tube station is the only station on the London Underground network from which it is possible to reach any other station with only a single change of train?
• ...that Greenford station has the only remaining wooden escalator on the London Underground?
• ...that There are only two tube stations which have all five vowels in them - Mansion House station and South Ealing station.
• ...that the Docklands Light Railway rolling stock is capable of travelling 100 km/h (62 mph)?
• ... that after World War II, designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs?
• ... that that the London Underground's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches?
• ... that at 44 tons, the locomotives of the Central London Railway`s first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?

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August

• A £300 million contract is let for the upgrade of Bond Street station
• The first of 191 air-conditioned S Stock trains enters passenger service

July

• Transport for London launches Barclays Cycle Hire bicycle sharing scheme
• New safety measures announced for safety with cyclists around lorries
• New cable car system announced in the Thames Gateway area
• Southfields stations becomes step-free
• Fewer delays in cars being held up by traffic lights

June

• Bus crime lowest in six years
• Early closure of Northern Line cancelled
• Exhibition at Aldwych until July 9th
• More air-conditioned Underground and Overground trains on their way
• New electric vehicles with special livery to distinguish them join the taxis
• Hammersmith & City and Circle to close between 24th July and 15th August for upgrade work as well as works to do with Paddington station and Crossrail
• Rotherhithe tunnel to be southbound during weekend closures
• New Digital Countdowns to be trialled telling people how long they have to cross the road
• Deaths and serious injuries on roads half that of a decade ago in London
• Improvements such as maps, signs and timetables as well as flags showing "River Buses" for commuter boats and "River Tours" for tourists to be introduced

For more information see: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/3119.aspx (most times) Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

Articles

• One article was promoted to featured article status and one to featured list status in July
• Three articles were promoted to Good Article status in July
• Underground Electric Railways Company of London has been nominated for featured article status and Aldwych tube station has been nominated for good article status
• There are currently 2,649 project articles; all have been assessed for quality and importance. If you see a new article on a project topic which is not rated, please add the banner to the talk page and assess it.

Portal

• Please vote on potential selected articles, images and biographies for the Portal
• You can suggest a Did You Know? for the Portal

Requests

• New usage data has been published by TfL for the London Underground for 2009. These could be added to station article infoboxes
• Tyw7 has requested help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock
• MRSC has requested help with improving North and West London Light Railway and West London Orbital
• File:Thames tunnels.svg (below) requires updating (leave a note here explaining what needs doing)

Members

• Newest members: Alzarian16 (talk · contribs) and Sillybillypiggy (talk · contribs) joined in April
• Number of participants is 81

Editorial

• This month's guest editor: DavidCane (talk)
• Usual editor Simply south (talk) has requested a volunteer edit the September edition of this newsletter
• All suggestions to improve the newsletter are welcome at feedback page

Recently promoted to Featured Article or Featured List

• List of former and unopened London Underground stations, 20 July 2010
• Wotton (Metropolitan Railway) railway station, 31 July 2010

Recently assessed as Good Articles

• Westminster tube station, 4 July 2010
• Underground Electric Railways Company of London, 7 July 2010
• Infrastructure of the Brill Tramway, 1 August 2010

Featured Article candidates (here)

• Underground Electric Railways Company of London

Good Article candidates (here)

• Aldwych tube station

Most visited pages

• For a list of the most Project's most visited pages, see Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages

This month's gallery of images (selected by User:DavidCane)

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October

• Drivers urged to look out for motorcyclists in bus lanes
• Tube strike occurs

September

• London Overgound gives 81% satsfaction in recent survey
• Extra Police Officers join elite cycle service
• Construction of new maitenance facility began at Neasden depot
• Elephant & Castle's southern roundabout to be replaced by traffic lights on 11 October
• Larger vans and minibuses to be included in the Low Emission Zone from January 2012
• North Acton Tube station scoops fruit and veg award while High Barnet blooms in light of Best Overall Garden prize
• New electric stock completed for London Overground
• New Central Line platform at Stratford
• Kender Street Triangle to switch to two-way traffic this weekend

August

• Blackwall Tunnel northbound refurbishment to be completed six months early
• Tube staff compete to grow fruit and vegetables
• £30m saved as new oyster scheme begins
• Runaway train on Northern Line sparks investigation
• A £300 million contract is let for the upgrade of Bond Street station
• The first of 191 air-conditioned S Stock trains enters passenger service

For more information see: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/3119.aspx (most times) Note: Oldest news items at bottom of list

Articles

• Four were promoted to featured article status in August; plus two were promoted in September
• Infrastructure of the Brill Tramway was promoted in August and Aldwych tube station in September to Good Article status.
• Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield is currently a featured article status candidate
• A series of articles related to Brill Tramway were promoted to featured topic status in October
• There are currently 2,656 project articles; all have been assessed for quality and importance. If you see a new article on a project topic which is not rated, please add the banner to the talk page and assess it.

Portal

• Please vote on potential selected articles, images and biographies for the Portal
• You can suggest a Did You Know? for the Portal

Requests

• User:WhisperToMe (talk · contribs) has requested photos of the Compass Centre at Heathrow, especially if the BAA logo is included if possible.
• New usage data has been published by TfL for the London Underground for 2009. These could be added to station article infoboxes
• Tyw7 has requested help with improving Docklands Light Railway rolling stock
• MRSC has requested help with improving North and West London Light Railway and West London Orbital
• File:Thames tunnels.svg (below) requires updating (leave a note here explaining what needs doing)

Other

• Discussions within the project included participation in the project, the usefulness of Category:Transport architecture in London, unopened stations in London, reorganising the District Line's RDT, a brief celebration of four years of the project and some of the articles have been selected for Wikipedia 0.8 release.
• In other project related discussions included the unopened stations, identifying train vehicles and a request for taking photos of the Compass Centre

Members

• Newest members: Redrose64 (talk · contribs) joined in August and Sgreen93 (talk · contribs) joined in September
• Number of active participants is 75

Editorial

• Editor: Simply south (talk)
• All suggestions to improve the newsletter are welcome at feedback page or User talk:Simply south

Featured topic

• Wikipedia:Featured topics/Brill Tramway

Recently promoted to Featured Article or Featured List

• Wotton (Metropolitan Railway) railway station, 1 August 2010
• Brill Tramway, 14 August 2010
• Underground Electric Railways Company of London, 16 August 2010
• Wandsworth Bridge, 26 August 2010
• Wood Siding railway station, 10 September 2010
• Quainton Road railway station, 25 September 2010

Recently assessed as Good Articles

• Infrastructure of the Brill Tramway, 1 August 2010
• Aldwych tube station, 1 September 2010

Featured Article candidates (here)

• Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield

Good Article candidates (here)

• Charles Holden

Most visited pages

• For a list of the most Project's most visited pages, see Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages

This month's gallery of images (selected by User:DavidCane)

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