Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/The Metropolitan/Issue 20

The Metropolitan

The WikiProject London Transport Newsletter
Issue 20 - December 2009)

November | January

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

December

ING direct will sponsor free travel on the Underground at New Year's Eve

Maida Vale tube station received the National Rail Heritage Award due to its modernisation

November

Blackwall Tunnel temporarily closed because a vehicle caught fire

A new ticket hall is installed at Kings Cross St Pancras station giving a 30 per cent increase in capacity with more entrances and escalators as well as lifts installed giving most of the remaining lines at this station step-free access for disabled passengers. The exception to this is the Northern Line with works still occurring until mid 2010.

New bridges installed at Limehouse station to provide easier interchange between DLR and National Rail services

A new campaign is launched warning Londoners of unbooked minicabs.

South Croydon railway station is to cut its power from the National Grid and instead have its CCTV and lighting powered by solar panels to be installed. This is part of an effort to go green and have a big cut in carbon emissions

The Docklands Light Railway celebrates 10 years of its Lewisham extension

Oyster Pay As You Go now accepted on Thames Clipper services

Oyster Pay As You Go to be accepted on all National Rail services in London from 2 January 2010

The TfL Lost Property Office has donated a lot of new toys to the Salvation Army to help disadvantaged children in south London

During the festive period, London Overground will be operating extra services on Saturdays to help Christmas shoppers

Bendy buses to be removed from route 38 to be replaced by double-decker buses

New traffic light timings in Camden Town on trial, giving green light to those within speed limit and red light to speeders

Coca-cola to sponsor LU busking over Christmas period

new Surface Transport and Traffic Operations Centre opened by Duke of York

Brixton Hill gyratory removed

Member News

No new members to report.

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 was promoted to good article. Well done to DavidCane. This now also on as a candidate for featured article. Otherwise this month has been again fairly quiet. 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.

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

This month's gallery of images (added by User:Sunil060902)

Stratford International station opened for Southeastern preview services on 30 November 2009.
Westbound platforms at Stratford International.
The new northern entrance and ticket hall at King's Cross St. Pancras tube station opened on 29 November 2009.
The new northern ticket hall at King's Cross St. Pancras tube station.
The footbridge linking the mainline (c2c) and DLR platforms at Limehouse station opened in late November 2009.
The new South Quay DLR station opened on 26 October 2009.
South Quay new station platforms looking west.
The bay platform at Mudchute DLR station opened in early October 2009.

From the editor

I am sorry for the previous editions for being late as well as this one due to being busy

Thank you to Sunil060902 for the gallery update

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.

Contributors to this Issue

Simply south (talk) - (Editor and Distibutor)

Sunil060902 (talk) - Guest gallery updater

Improving Wikipedia one edit at a time!

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
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

Baker Street and Waterloo Railway

Good Articles

GAC
None

A
None

Other assessment notes

Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was promoted to Good Article status in early November. Well done to all involved.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was demoted from featured article status in mid-November.

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

The percentage of article assessed remains roughly the same as in October

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

A discussion arose over the addition or removal to succession to the London Underground lines and their histories

Transport categories (and the other categories generally) were renamed for Kensington & Chelsea and Barking & Dagenham

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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