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An exhibition about railway architecture is coming to Euston Station this summer, as part of the London Festival of Architecture. The exhibition display will showcase Network Rail’s Design Guidance Series – a suite...

The 19th-century fossil hunter, Mary Anning is being commemorated in a series of new collectable coins from the Royal Mint and Natural History Museum. (c) Royal Mint Mary Anning was a palaeontologist who became known...

A huge monument to the original English settlers of the USA stands proud overlooking the Thames, and is surprisingly unlikely for you to casually walk past. The Virginia Quay Settlers Monument marks the spot, roughly,...

A TfL scheme that has reduced the number of roadworks on main roads is to be extended to pavements as well. Introduced in 2012, TfL’s Lane Rental scheme requires utility firms to pay to dig up the roads managed by...

A petition has been set up on the official Parliament website calling for an extra Bank Holiday this summer. The date chosen, 21st June 2021 is not just the longest day of the year but marks the theoretical date that...

Luton Airport is currently building a new light rail link, and they’ve released a flythrough of the construction so far. At the moment, the link between the airport and the nearest railway station, Luton Airport...

That famous statue of a naked man thinking is coming to London, as part of an exhibition about the man who made it, Auguste Rodin. Well, a plaster version of it – for this is an exhibition that shies away from the...

A run-down open-air stage in the middle of Crystal Palace that was popular between the 1960s and 90s is about to be restored to a working performance space again. Apart from some of the biggest names in music of the...

In the mid-nineteenth century, the great age of railway building, Charles Dickens could not but be aware of their transformative impact on society. So he wrote about it often. A new book has collected together many of...

If you’re able to travel by tube train, look out for poems on the Underground by, and about the Romantic poet, John Keats, who died 200 years ago today. Two station displays have also been unveiled in Hampstead, where...

Four of London’s older theatres are currently on a risk register with their long term future uncertain. While there’s been much comment about the effects of the pandemic on the people who work in the theatres, the...

This is another of the posh mews that were once shabby stables, and it can be found just around the corner from South Kensington tube station. Once fields, this part of London known as Old Brompton remained largely...

A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news… Reopening the Piccadilly line’s disused York Road tube station London Underground Redbridge station closed all week due to staff shortages Essex Live Elizabeth...

Plans for a new concert hall in the City of London have been cancelled as the City decides to revamp the Barbican Centre instead. The new concert hall, the Centre for Music had been planned to sit on the site currently...

A large swathe of land between Finchley Road and West Hampstead could be filled with flats, and the O2 shopping centre demolished if plans go ahead. At the moment, the land has the large O2 shopping centre at the...

A rather shabby footbridge that acts as the entrance to Harringay station is about to be repaired and upgraded. Anyone who uses it will know that it’s hardly a welcoming entrance to the station, being narrow and...

From the end of next month, the rail operator, c2c will stop selling Oyster cards and won’t process top-ups for existing customers through their ticket offices. Their ticket machines will still process top-ups for...

The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square is straining to cope with double the number of visitors it was designed for, and it looking for a 200th-anniversary upgrade. National Gallery and Sainsbury Wing (c) National...