The study concludes that the rail link could deliver strong economic returns under both two-runway and three-runway expansion scenarios at Heathrow Airport, indicating its potential impact on regional connectivity.
The High Court on Monday, Judge Richard Humphreys made orders on consent striking out the cases brought by various businesses, including the owners of the Manhattan Peanuts factory on McKee Avenue in Finglas.
The main focus of the project is replacing the existing timber decking on the walkway, which has reached the end of its useful life. It will be replaced with glass-reinforced plastic panels, a more durable material designed to withstand heavy passenger use and last for many years.
The Bakerloo line trains, at over 50 years old, are by far the oldest passenger trains in use in the UK, and that means it's not really possible to simply swap in some new trains as replacements. That's because the technology in trains has changed so much over the past half-century that it would be a huge waste of an opportunity not to take advantage of the improvements.
Bork!Bork!Bork! London's Elizabeth Line is the latest thing in urban development (at least as far as the UK is concerned). So it seems appropriate that its borks should be similarly up to date, and its emoticons rotated so the intent cannot be mistaken. Sent in by an eagle-eyed Register reader, today's entry in the pantheon of bork was snapped at London's Paddington station,
It's been donkey's years since TfL first teased Londoners about a potential extension of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) to southeast London. Plans were first floated all the way back in 2010, and since then London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been drip feeding transport-deprived southeast Londoners morsels of commute-related hope. It was originally hoped that extension plans could be complete by 2026, which was then pushed back to 2028, and in August 2025 it was announced the extension could go even further than originally thought.
The Bakerloo line is currently part-suspended, with no service operating between Piccadilly Circus tube station and Elephant & Castle Tube station due to a signal failure at Lambeth North tube station. Transport for London says severe delays are affecting the rest of the line while engineers work to resolve the issue.