Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/The Metropolitan/Issue 16

The Metropolitan

The WikiProject London Transport Newsletter
Issue 16 - August 2009)

July | September

London Transport News

July

48 hour strike disrupts main line services from Liverpool Street

The Victoria Underground station upgrade has received planning approval from the Secretary of State for Transport

East Thames Buses to be sold by TfL to London General Transport Services Limited

The First 2009 Stock train starts carrying passengers in service on the Victoria line

Visitors to Piccadilly Circus will be able to see Tube service updates on the Coca-Cola advertising board

Boris Johnson unveils the first of the new London Overground trains

June 2009

Wrexham & Shropshire has become the first train operating company to sell Oyster cards to passengers before they arrive in London.

Art on the on the Underground, London Underground's art programme, has won an international award for culture on public transport systems.

Transport for London have announced a five month improvement scheme for the A316 Richmond Circus road junction, with increased accessability for cyclists and pedestrians.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has tested London's first air-conditioned tube train.

New superhero artwork has been added to Charing Cross and Embankment tube stations.

Due to the ongoing tube strike, and the lack of Chiltern services, over 70,000 football supporters were without transport after the World Cup qualifier at Wembley Stadium.

Union RMT announced a 48 hour tube strike, which began at 18:59 on Tuesday 9 June.

The new Three Mills Lock has opened in Bromley-by-Bow.

Transport for London has announced that six bus manufacturers have qualified to bid for the contract to design and build the new bus for London.

To aid overseas travellers, London Underground has upgraded all touch screen ticket machines to 17 different languages.

Member News

Welcome to new member Tyw7 who joined on 29 July.

We currently have 72 members signed-up.

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

General

After the surge of new articles in June, July has been a quieter month with just one new featured article, Chelsea Bridge (well done again Iridescent), and one new good article, Charles Pearson. We therefore, currently have 10 Featured Articles, 1 Featured List and 10 Good Articles in the Project. Unfortunately, one former Good Article, Docklands Light Railway has been demoted to B-class. We have 110 B-class articles and it would nice to see some of those improved and taken through the Good Article review process - so come on guys, get those books out and get fact checking.

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

This month's selected image

London Underground Battery-electric locomotive L16 designed to operate over tracks where the traction current is turned off for maintenance work.

From the editor

Thanks for reading.

Contributors to this Issue

DavidCane (talk) (Guest Editor and Distributor)
Simply south (talk) (Contributor and Distibutor)

Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2006!

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Cleanup : Lists of articles needing cleanup
Expand : These top 10 favourite articles to Good Article: J. P. Morgan · Heathrow Airport · River Thames · London Bridge · London Underground · London Bridge (Lake Havasu City) · Gatwick Airport · London Congestion Charge · Tube map · Tower Bridge These top importance articles to Good Article: 7 July 2005 London bombings · Buses in London · Crossrail · London Passenger Transport Board · London Transport (brand) · London Transport Museum · Transport for London · Transport in London
Good article nominations : Oxted line
Photo : Upload your non-copyrighted London transportation images to Wikimedia Commons
Stubs : Improve a stub article
Update : London low emission zone, London congestion charge
Other :
- Suggest: A Did You Know...? fact here or an Anniversary fact here.
- Patrol: Recent changes
- Join: Become a member of WikiProject London Transport or encourage others

Assessment

Featured Articles & Lists

FAC/FLC
None

Good Articles

GAC
None

A
None

Other assessment notes

None

Other announcements

One article was promoted to Featured Article status:
- Chelsea Bridge

One article was promoted to Good Article status:
- Charles Pearson

A new timeline has been created for the London Underground listing important events in the network's history

Did you know...

...that Sir Alexander Valentine, Chairman of London Transport wrote a book encouraging Londoners to walk round the city.
...that in the 1960s Chelsea Bridge was a venue for illegal bike racing and, in 1970, a battle took place between rival motorcycle gangs.
...that before Charles Pearson campaigned for the construction of the Metropolitan Railway, he proposed a giant underground railway terminus in Farringdon?
...that a year after its death in 2006, the remains of a bottlenose whale removed from the River Thames at Battersea Bridge were put on public display in the offices of The Guardian newspaper?
...that in September 1844 a clown from Astley's Amphitheatre sailed from Vauxhall Bridge to Westminster Bridge in a washtub towed by geese?
...that the Dollis Brook Viaduct is the highest point on both the Northern Line and the London Underground above ground level, reaching 60 feet (18 m) in height?
...that the Dollis Valley Greenwalk is one of ten parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Barnet to win a £400,000 grant to improve its quality and safety?
...that Chelsea Bridge was little used at night when it first opened, because of its owners' policy of only turning the lighting on if Queen Victoria was spending the night in London?
...that Albert Bridge in London is seriously structurally unsound in part because of rotting caused by dog's urine?
...despite the many motorways serving London, only four (the M1, the M4, M11 and M25) actually enter Greater London?
...out of the 32 London Borough, six have no underground stations- all of them south of the River Thames.
...Marylebone tube station opened with the unusual name of Great Central, reflecting the main line company that ran trains out of the terminus?
...that Routemasters are still used on two heritage bus routes in London, routes 9 and 15?
...that for two years, from 1883 to 1885, the District Railway ran services along the Great Western Main Line to Windsor?

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