London’s Underground rail network has been around for over 150 years so it will come as no surprise for most people to learn that a number of stations have undergone serious makeovers through the years. But even with the majority of stations getting updated and renovated over the last century …
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Brits need to brace-up themselves for the upcoming London bus strike which will create a major disruption in several routes. Earlier people in the UK witnessed several strikes including by the rail and Tube staff. In addition to the historic nurses strike, this will be for the first time ever …
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A round 100,000 civil servants have voted to go on strike, joining nurses, rail workers, university staff and potentially teachers in industrial action that threatens to cripple public services in the coming weeks. Workers represented by the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, backed industrial action in strike ballots called …
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If there’s one good thing about taking the Tube it’s that occasionally you get to spot a dog on the Tube. TfL’s new Elizabeth line might not actually, technically, be a Tube – it’s a railway line – but you can still get that same joy of dog-spotting. As of …
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Did you know that London once had an underground, driverless railway for its post? Known as Mail Rail, or formerly the Post Office Railway, it operated from 1927 until 2003 to move mail around between postal sorting offices. Like the London Underground but for envelopes rather than people. And now …
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