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Tube strikes for next week have been cancelled – but the future strikes are still on
Could London eventually approve its own transport projects without Whitehall delays?
Tickets Alert: Tours of Dorneywood House and its gardens
Lifeline for London’s largest city farm as Mudchute lease agreed
Mind the bap! Morgan Freeman lends his loaf to Baker Street tube station
TfL launches a new map of London Underground artworks
Little Holland House: The arts and crafts home open to visitors once a month
Tickets for a quid to see Romeo & Juliet at the Harold Pinter Theatre
Early hours visits to see the Natural History Museum’s dinosaurs
LEGO on the rails: SWR train renamed to celebrate Legoland Windsor’s 30th anniversary
From Oscar Wilde to Moll Cutpurse: London’s most colourful defendants in a new exhibition
London City Airport wants to allow larger planes to use the airport
Inside the giant machine digging HS2’s railway tunnels to Euston station
Tickets Alert: The Household Division Beating Retreat
Cutty Sark DLR station reopening date confirmed as works finish ahead of schedule
David Hockney’s digital ‘tapestry’ wraps around the Serpentine Gallery
Major refurbishment planned for Clapham Junction station’s footbridge
London’s Alleys: Church Yard Walk, Paddington, W2
Step into Friends, House of the Dragon and more at free HBO Max pop-up in Piccadilly Circus
Giant TBM starts digging tube-train sized tunnel beneath the Thames
Looted from a royal palace: The medieval jug now on display in London
Save up to 50% on West End hits with this week’s theatre offers
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Go behind the scenes at London Transport Museum’s vast Acton depot this April
Platform 37: Google names its huge King’s Cross HQ as staff prepare to move in
200 Years of UCL: A small exhibition packed with big discoveries
Wheel good news: Thameslink bikes help fund skills for adults with learning disabilities
Free Friday performances at the Royal Opera House
London’s Pocket Parks: Bixley Field, Southall, UB2
London councils to share £95m for safer roads and new cycle routes
Where to see cherry blossom in London this spring
Euston station to shut for six days over Easter as £30m rail upgrade works take place
That dressing gown? It’s wood. Inside London’s strangest materials exhibition
Official announcement: It’s time to end the tyranny of officially
Tube strikes planned from March to May in row over four-day working week
Wandsworth Town station upgrade begins, with lifts and new entrance
Barbican turns east to rethink the Cold War on screen
Rarely seen Stubbs horse painting gallops into the National Gallery
Tickets Alert: Take your old things to the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow
London Transport Museum adding new exhibitions galleries
Mind the tap: Stansted Airport starts accepting London’s contactless travel tickets
Why Mother’s Day used to be about churches, not mums
TfL taps our largest nuclear fusion reactor to power the London Underground
Designers revealed for London Museum’s underground collection store
Suffragette medal awarded to Pankhurst’s nurse goes on display
The Last Collar: Rare survivor from Charles Dickens’s wardrobe goes on display
London’s Alleys: Roberts Alley, South Ealing, W5
Public access to the Foulness military firing range reopens next month
Tickets Alert: Easter tours of the House of Commons’ Speaker’s House
Tracey Emin’s Tate Modern blockbuster is packed with people – and discomfort
The church with anti-aircraft guns: Kilburn’s unusual naval relics removed
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Tickets Alert: Open days at the Postal Museum’s overflow warehouse
Mayor steps in after Barnet Council blocks homes next to High Barnet tube station
Kew’s Victorian Palm House set for £60m overhaul after lottery funding boost
The posters that helped topple communism go on display in Westminster
West London Orbital railway plans take another step forward
Chance to catch a London Overground train to Battersea Park station
London hire bikes named after inspirational women cyclists for International Women’s Day
British Museum ditching its gas boilers in move to low-carbon heat pumps
So bad it’s legendary: Plan 9 from Outer Space gets a 35mm revival in London
The architect who built like a playwright: Vanbrugh at Soane’s Museum
More people now qualify for discounted train travel as Disabled Persons Railcard expands
Expecto Merchandum: Giant Harry Potter shop coming to Oxford Street
The curious case of the red corbel on Risinghill Street
Barbican’s £231m renewal gets green light – with year-long closure planned
Shell shocked: Strawberry Hill plans to rebuild Horace Walpole’s lost garden seat
Mind the Art: Tube stations transformed into atmospheric paintings
London Overground trains are calling at London Bridge station this Saturday
Kentish Town’s disused cinema to be restored as a community space and work hub
Lost tiles and ghost poster frames revealed at Oval tube station
Battersea Power Station is offering free Chimney Lift trips to shoppers
Tickets Alert: See 100 Grand Prix cars at Brooklands for a centenary spectacle
New exhibition explores how early printing developed into readable books
Piccadilly line’s new £3.4bn trains hit another delay as testing slips
Fare dodgers targeted as train ticket refund rules are tightened
London’s Alleys: Bridle Mews, High Barnet, EN5
You can now have afternoon tea in the Old Bailey
Tickets Alert: Attend the Lady Mayor’s lecture at the Guildhall
Gold, Gods and a Pricey Pharaoh: Ramses exhibition will worry your wallet
New DLR trains not expected to return to service until this Summer
Adverts are returning to Euston station’s big screen
Save up to 50% on West End hits with this week’s theatre offers
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UK’s second-tallest residential tower planned for last big Vauxhall site
Green light given to pedestrianise Oxford Street as traffic sees red
The Royal Mews collection of horse-drawn carriages is reopening
Go-Ahead’s 1,000th electric bus boosts London’s zero-emission fleet
British Museum announces Bayeux Tapestry ticket sales dates
Southwark’s “Owl and the Pussy-Cat” house could be restored and opened to the public
Charing Cross station to be hit by three-week summer closure warns Southeastern
Why you end up following a stranger through a busy railway station
Bromley’s historic archives to get bigger home in Priory Gardens
Could rising contactless fares push commuters back to season tickets?
Tickets Alert: Guided tours of the Richmond Theatre
Visiting the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Bethnal Green
Barking Eurohub set for £15m upgrade to finally unlock rail freight to Europe
Banqueting House to fully reopen in August following major restoration
TfL approves up to 43 new rapid EV chargers across the capital
Tickets Alert: Southbank Centre resumes its backstage tours
Londoners invited to grill the Mayor at People’s Question Time in March
Boxes, tape and secrets: A conspiracy exhibition that hides its meaning too well
The obscure HS1 train ticket rule that lets you start at Elephant & Castle
Dartford Junction reopens following £10m reliability upgrade
Tickets Alert: Climb up inside the Old Royal Naval College domes
Camden’s iconic Black Cap gay pub to reopen in March 2026
Relief for Stansted Airport travellers as contactless train ticketing arrives in March
TfL warns of widespread rail and Tube disruption throughout March
Royal Docks plans would add floating parkland and residential boat berths
London’s Alleys: Ship Tavern Passage, City of London, EC3
Tickets Alert: Half price tickets to see Zippos Circus
Four free exhibitions at the V&A South Kensington
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Free tickets to visit the Barbican’s heated greenhouse conservatory
Dot by Dot, Sea by Sea: Seurat’s painting glow at the Courtauld
Tate tries to turn an advertising campaign into a Cultural Event
How Londoners tracked death figures to survive the Great Plague of 1665
Oscar Wilde’s trial dock set for public access following restoration work
Cheap and free entry to London venues for National Lottery Open Week
New exhibition explores how an English merchant and his Chinese colleagues changed botanical art
London’s pedicab cowboys face a new sheriff as TfL clamps down on rip-off fares
Plans unveiled to reopen Royal London Hospital Museum after five-year closure
Royal Mail steams ahead with Hornby centenary postage stamps
Tickets Alert: Free open evening at St Paul’s Cathedral
Star Trek beams into the Science Museum with films, props and late-night events
Who really made Dickens? New exhibition credits the women he depended on
Northern line upgrade could bring a new train depot to a former horse hospital
Newham to get its museum back after 30 years with new heritage centre
Unfinished Mozart manuscript going on display in Mayfair museum
Tickets Alert: Chevening House garden’s 2026 open day
Morph, Wallace and evil penguins: Inside Aardman at Young V&A
London’s Alleys: Martin Lane, City of London, EC4
Tickets Alert: Animal Dissection Live!
The City of London adds its 114th Livery Company — and it’s for HR
We’ll Meet Again – in the Museum: Dame Vera Lynn’s letters to be displayed at IWM
Shop windows tell the story of London’s revolutionary illustrated newspapers
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Victorian drinking fountain returns to Princes Circus – but the water’s been turned off
Ding ding! TfL auctioning off five authentic 1960s Routemasters
Drawing out Freud: The National Portrait Gallery looks beyond the oils
Pyx and Ceremony: London hosts one of England’s oldest legal rituals
Southbank’s skate undercroft turns 50 with a new exhibition celebrating its concrete legacy
Passenger numbers surge, but the railways still can’t fill the revenue gap
Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour 2026 tickets ballot now open
Visiting the Household Cavalry Museum
London’s Pocket Parks: Pat Hickson Garden, Southwark, SE16
Controversial Liverpool Street station redevelopment gets planning approval
The “Hogwarts Express” will be at the Epping Ongar Railway through April
Queer Britain gets a refresh but makes a small museum feel even smaller
From ticket hall to toilet roll: Morden tube station’s new loos take first flush
At last, the Concrete Crown: Southbank Centre gets Grade II heritage listing
Bakerloo line upgrade pulls out of the depot as TfL starts the hunt for suppliers
Rare pendant linked to Henry VIII to go on UK tour after rescue appeal
Several weekend closures of Liverpool Street station through March
Seahorses, seals and sharks spotted in Thames as conservation boosts Thames habitats
A medieval Persian allegory takes flight in a London gallery
Warning of four day closure on parts of the Metropolitan and Chiltern Railway next week
TfL testing a new modular design bus shelter for London
Amersham’s fairground organ museum is starting to offer tours
London’s Alleys: Alderman Stairs, Wapping, E1
Photos from NASA’s manned space missions go on display in London
Discount sale on tickets to see I’m Sorry, Prime Minister
Arch over the trainshed: A different way to fund Liverpool Street station’s upgrade
Why the Mendini exhibition made me feel like I shouldn’t be there
London Museum staff vote for strike action in pay dispute
Euston station rail passengers facing delays on Avanti and LNR services today
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With tunnels under way, attention turns back to HS2’s missing Euston station
Balham rail bridge gets deep clean and new lighting scheme
Paddington could host TfL’s first sensory-friendly “quiet space” for travellers
Derelict shops in Aldgate to be redeveloped as horse stables for the police
Mind the Gap… and Wipe Your Feet: Tube moquette doormats go on sale
Flying drones and robot dogs being used to move medial samples between NHS hospitals
London’s Pocket Parks: Essex Road Gardens, Barking, IG11
London Cable Car isn’t always expensive – here’s how to ride for under £2
West End streets could become a vast new public plaza under latest plans
From cassocks to coins: A brief history of Archbishops in Lambeth Palace’s library
The year Hyde Park was sold to propety developers for housing
See the shortlist for the annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition
RNIB urges accessibility overhaul as Great British Railways is developed
Watford is getting its own localised Monopoly board game
Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth to turn blue with bronze sculpture by Tschabalala Self
Free outdoor exhibition turns parks, shopping centres and churches into open-air galleries
How engineers turned a former Tube train into a battery powered prototype
1930s Art Deco offices to be converted into a new hotel
New heat network plans to tap the Thames to warm London’s South Bank
Barbican plans to bring its long-closed Sculpture Court back into public use
Tickets Alert: Take a tour of the historic Lincoln’s Inn
Five rare Lucknow swords go on display at the Wallace Collection
Great British Railways gets its first long-distance trains as LNER reveals Class 897 interiors
London Alleys: Buckingham Mews, Victoria, SW1
Get tickets to visit the House of Dreams
From this Sunday: London Northwestern and West Midlands trains become publicly owned
BAFTA’s restaurant is open to the public for breakfasts
Samurai, but not as you know them: British Museum exhibition rewrites the warrior myth
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Thunderbirds and Space:1999 exhibition gets mission extension
West London commuters get boost with more Elizabeth line trains from this spring
Nine blue plaques, hanging on a wall — Nine blue plaques for London in 2026
Peckham Rye station to get £5m makeover while waiting for step-free rebuild
Forgotten Mughal Banaras revealed in free London photo exhibition
London Transport Museum to get £12m makeover ahead of its 50th birthday
London’s Pocket Parks: Coronation Gardens, Southfields, SW18
Tickets Alert: London Concours luxury car exhibition
Lost stretch of London’s Roman Wall could reappear in the pavement outside Guildhall
Train operator Lumo awarded its own officially registered Scottish tartan
World’s oldest gasholder to be restored and opened to the public
Why the most interesting things in museums are sometimes the ones that aren’t there
Euston, we have lift-off as HS2 starts tunnelling towards central London
London Overground strike called by RMT for next month
Courtauld Gallery recieves £10 million gift to fund expansion of its art galleries
TfL eyes major upgrade so Tube can accept National Rail barcode tickets
A crumbling head and every English word: the Mithraeum’s latest puzzling artwork
Tickets Alert: Free entry to the London Wetland Centre’s nature reserve
Trumpers Crossing Halte – the west London railway station that closed 100 years ago
Another delay for east London’s Beam Park station as business case is reworked
The world’s most meme-famous painting is heading to Tate Britain
Tickets Alert: Open days at Whitehall’s Banqueting House
From Tudor treason to coded classifieds: the National Archives puts love on trial
London’s Alleys: Chatter Alley, East Molesey, KT8
Save up to 60% on West End hits with this week’s theatre offers
A 2026 calendar of City of London ceremonies
Tickets on sale now for Kew Garden’s Henry Moore exhibition
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Londoners can abseil off a Premier League stadium for a lifesaving cause
£2m heritage funding will make London’s papyrus archive easier to visit
Oyster cards could be loaded onto smartphones under new TfL deal
Tickets Alert: Visit the UK’s largest particle accelerator – the Diamond Light Source
Government pledges £1.5bn to fix crumbling museums and cultural buildings
Canary Wharf lights up after dark as its free Winter Lights trail begins
Railway engineering works close lines, but unlock a little-used bit of track near Twickenham
HS2 prepares to bore its final tunnels as Euston TBM launch date confirmed
Not the good guys: Exhibition confronts Britain’s colonial wars
Closed for a decade – part of the Thames riverside path has reopened at last
London bus route 472 scrapped as SL11 Superloop launches with a week of free travel
London’s new Chinese embassy will include a free museum displaying the ruins of a medieval abbey
Tickets Alert: See the snowdrops at the GBBO film set
Patients, Paintings and Protest: A candid mental health exhibition in south London
Hoard of coins buried on eve of the Battle of Hastings revealed in record-breaking treasure report
Tron on the Tube: London Underground’s new trains are being tested on the Piccadilly line
Dredging the past: Hanwell’s historic canal side ponds being repaired
HS2 completes construction of its longest tunnels beneath the Chilterns
Major engineering works halt London–Peterborough trains on weekends
‘Blimey, never knew that’: the British Museum’s Hawai’i exhibition surprises
London’s Alleys: Ann’s Place, Whitechapel, E1
Tickets Alert: Railway 200 tours of three London stations
Pikes at the Palace: English civil war re-enactors to march through London
From Skylons to brick-walls – see the next generation of jewellery designers
Lifts approved for some London stations – but others lose out as DfT scales back plans
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Mayor to push London council tax precept above £500 to fund policing and rail plans
Tickets Alert: 200th anniversary tours of London Zoo
Imber Bus confirms its 2026 date for a surreal ride through Salisbury Plain
Strawberry Hill’s new exhibition chases a lost dagger with a questionable past
Archaeologists uncover Victorian children’s schoolwork in east London
Half price entry to Dr Johnson’s House on Friday afternoons
Tickets Alert: 2026 tours of privately owned Longford Castle
Urban Rewilding: Beavers could return to a south London park
Ticket checks ramped up on the DLR in fare evasion crackdown
Man arrested over £260,000 graffiti spree on Northern line trains
Wellington Arch at 200: The monument that lost a statue and gained a tunnel
TfL launches hunt for women who inspired Londoners to start cycling
Tickets Alert: Open days to visit Pope’s Grotto
Friends, foes and six-foot canvases: Turner and Constable face off at Tate Britain
Tickets Alert: Tours of UK construction sites
How London finally cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground
London Trams depot becomes TfL’s first fossil-fuel-free operating site
An Organ on the Run: The Hammersmith school organ with a hidden past
Eleven miles of costumes: Take a tour the vast Angels Costumes warehouse
The Ivy launches £19.17 two-course menu across its London restaurants
London’s Alleys: Wesleyan Place, Kentish Town, NW5
Tickets Alert: Attend the Garter Day ceremony in Windsor Castle
Fans, Frigates and Flirtation: Jane Austen’s world in Greenwich exhibitions
TfL signs Otis to keep the Tube’s escalators moving until the 2040s
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Billiards without Beer: The time London tried to cure itself of the booze
Storm Goretti starts affecting train services in/out of London
Barking railway footbridge reopens, ending three years of detours for local residents
London’s Butchers Hall confirms dates for next Carvery Lunches
Too hot to Handel: Pipe organs reveal the truth about warming churches
London’s Pocket Parks: Katherine Buchan Meadow, Hanwell, W7
Tickets Alert: Sandhurst military academy’s tours for 2026
South Bermondsey station reopens after its platform was replaced over Christmas
Jubilee line embankment works to begin near Queensbury, lasting until summer 2027
Steel and rhyme, Still on time: 40 years of Poems on the Underground
Berkeley Square swaps Nightingales for Dinosaurs as a Triceratops arrives
After a decade of delay, Earl’s Court finally gets planning permission for 4,000 homes
Frameless unveils new annual ticket as a budget-friendly option for repeat visits
Award-winning theatre set designs go on show at the National Theatre
Winter sale on Eurostar train trips to mainland Europe
New book reveals the overlooked modern architecture of Britain’s Big Four railways
Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the weird rules of Quantum Physics
Work to upgrade Pontoon Dock DLR station to start later this year
Tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show 2026 now on sale
Southbank Centre launches its 75th anniversary with £7.50 exhibitions tickets
Ministers give steer to ‘Futureproof’ Euston’s HS2 station, newly released minutes reveal
Waterloo–Clapham Junction trains return after 11-day Christmas engineering blockade
London’s Alleys: Gardener’s Lane, City of London, EC4
Tickets Alert: Tours of the richly decorated Moor Park Mansion
Lewisham asks public for ideas to rescue and reopen the Ladywell Playtower
‘Jewel in the Strand’ project backed by £4.6m grant for St Mary Le Strand church
Where to watch the 2026 total solar eclipse
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Great British Rail Sale launches with savings of 50% on off-peak and advance fares
Another year, another pile of words: The stories that made me smile in 2025
Winter sale on GWR train tickets starts this Friday
Train firms slapped for “cheapest ticket” claims after regulator ruling
Museum of musical instruments to be reimagined as part of £30m refurbishment
TfL raises ‘existential’ concerns over track access under Great British Railways
Gunnersbury Park Museum closing for a month of refurbishment work
DLR delivers: Cutty Sark station gets new escalators via the tracks
Winter sale on West End theatre tickets for plays, pantos and musicals
London’s Alleys: Murray Terrace, Hampstead, NW3
HS2 railway shifts from excavation to civil works amid cost and schedule rethink
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Fancy a slice of Paris? London’s oldest French restaurant is selling its wall art
The e-scooter isn’t new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago
Mummers, wassail and folklore: Bankside marks Twelfth Night with free riverside revels
Old trains, new wheels: Southeastern’s train wheels heads to Crewe for a major refresh
From soggy piles to wooden beams: Inside Colindale’s new timber tube station
National Portrait Gallery buys rare photographs of Ada Lovelace for the nation
London’s Alleys: Ransom Walk, Charlton, SE7
Christmas and New Year rail travel in London: Day-by-day guide to closures and reduced services
Winter sale on tickets to Starlight Express
Where does Black Tom toll the Devil’s Knell? Welcome to the King William College quiz
The ancient Trial of the Pyx is moving to Mansion House in 2026
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Santander Cycles to get self-charging e-bikes and new smartphone app
The Union flag that led Nelson’s fleet at Trafalgar may be saved for UK museum
January bargain: Heath Robinson Museum drops £8 ticket for pay-what-you-can Fridays
Step-free access work at Wandsworth Town station to start in February 2026
Discounted tickets to Pinocchio at Shakespeare’s Globe
London’s Pocket Parks: Milkwood Community Park, Herne Hill, SE24
Half price entry to Hampton Court Palace
Plans unveiled for a covered Soho alley through former Twentieth Century Fox HQ
From 1925 onwards: the Tidal Thames News archive is now online
From pigeon droppings to public art: Clapham Junction underpass gets a dramatic makeover
Tickets Alert: Tours of Buckingham Palace’s private east wing
An unusual London Overground trip is possible during Betwixmas
Weekend rail closures will disrupt Gatwick and Brighton train journeys in early 2026
Free light and sound show to fill City of London’s historic sites
A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London
Buttons, blood and bright red tunics: Inside the revamped Guards Museum
Chance to travel over a rarely used railway track in East London
Charing Cross station marks 120 years since fatal roof collapse with new plaque
Alexandra Palace unveils UK’s highest roof climb
Public overwhelmingly says “yes please” to DLR extension into Thamesmead
Private roof garden overlooking the Bank of England is to open to the public for free
Southgate tube station to become exit-only for several months
TfL confirms there are no extra-terrestrials on the London Underground – just humans behaving badly
London’s Alleys: Margaretta Terrace, Chelsea, SW3
Watch a mainline train run along part of the London Underground
Late-night Northern line disruption as Bank branch to shut early for engineering works
Tickets Alert: Tours of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Sale on tickets to the Potted Panto at Wilton’s Music Hall
Barbican Arts Centre to close for a year for a £240m upgrade
Newham’s oldest secular building to be saved as Spotted Dog pub restoration begins
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Tube lifts learn to ‘tell on themselves’ in new TfL push for reliable step-free travel
Tickets Alert: Go on a tour of the Trinity House headquarters
Wellcome Collection cutting its opening hours as visitor habits change
Tube and Overground fares up in March, but bus and tram freeze extended until July 2026
Housing development at High Barnet tube station blocked by local council
Construction of St Paul’s new public square to start next year
See Wallace & Gromit on the big screen with live orchestra accompaniment
London’s Pocket Parks: Castlehaven Open Space, Camden, NW1
Aurora at Last: EMR’s delayed bi-mode trains finally arrive at St Pancras station
Highgate Cemetery will be open to visit between Christmas and New Year
New Overground concession aims for 18 trains per hour through core by 2027
Temporary theatre to be built on the former Marble Arch Mound site
Thamesmead’s ‘Road to Nowhere’ finally set for completion as a new bus route
Illuminated River boat ride tours add extra dates over Christmas
Unexpected repairs force TfL to shut Barons Court tube station’s platforms through 2026
Smithfield Market’s Christmas Eve meat auction is back for 2025
Southbank Centre lights up winter nights with a free illuminated art trail
LNR rolls out longer trains, delivering 20% more seats on Euston services
Red, White and Rails: The Great British Railways livery unveiled for 2026 rollout
SWR’s ‘Hotshot’ train fitted with real-time cameras to spot railway faults before they cause delays
Gunnersbury station’s step-free plans advance – but commuters still waiting for Godot
The 1.3-hour rule: Why quicker trains encourage longer-distance commutes
Royal Observatory to unveil a Mirror Moon sculpture in March
HELCH’s dropped Hs land in Dalston exhibition
Beavers and Storks returning to East London thanks to a rewilding project
London’’s Alleys: St Thomas’s Place, Hackney, E9
Tickets Alert: Discounted tickets to Open Gardens Weekend 2026
Elizabeth line to run every three minutes on Saturdays as service ramps up
Southeastern rufurbishing its 20-year old Class 376 trains
Christmas sale on tickets to see The Moustrap
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Auf Wiedersehen, Jet? Eurostar and DB revive plans for direct London–Germany trains
British Museum is promising ‘Good Vibrations’ for the Bayeux Tapestry’s trip to the London
Elizabeth line drives Liverpool Street station to nearly 100 million entries and exits
From BHS to Gothic revival: Oxford Street tower lined up for cathedral-inspired rebuild
Look on His Works: Ramesses the Great exhibition is coming to London
TfL bids to take over Moorgate mainline with plan to increase Great Northern services
Disused telephone box becomes solar-powered herb garden
TfL Go adds real-time line alerts and improved train info in latest update
Tickets Alert: Luxmuralis light and sound show to fill a central London church
Stansted Airport’s contactless train ticketing delayed as Greater Anglia hits software snag
Royal Docks chosen as future site for London’s Smithfield and Billingsgate markets
London’s Pocket Parks: Canalside Square, Islington, N1
The King grants the Mayor of London permission to use the GLC’s historic coat of arms
Strand townhouses saved as Courtauld unveils plans to reunite institute and gallery
Government to broaden railcard train travel access for disabled travellers
Mayor of London urged to restart Crossrail 2 – and seek new tax powers to fund it
Hyakkō reveals the art of imperfection in Japan House’s label-light exhibition
A little noticed statue of St George and the Dragon in the City of London
Carnaby Street set for heritage makeover
Borehamwood set for major new museum honouring EastEnders, Star Wars and Hitchcock
The Gingerbread City returns with real architecture baked in icing and imagination
Empty trains to Euston highlight why scrapping HS2 to Manchester makes no sense
London’s Alleys: Victoria Place, Richmond, TW9
Christmas themed tours of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre
British Museum could gain a traffic-free entrance under new Holborn neighbourhood proposals
Honest Burgers to hand out 3,200 free meals across London this Wednesday
Saatchi Gallery marks 40 years with an oil lake, a spinning car and a riot of contemporary art
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Barbican to unveil giant plant-covered clay pavilion next spring
New DLR station back on track as long-delayed housing scheme finally moves forward
A Very Wes World: Design Museum’s pastel-hued dive into Anderson’s cinematic universe
JP Morgan revives £3 billion skyscraper plan for Canary Wharf after 20 years on ice
Oasis tour merchanise pop-up store opening in Piccadilly Circus
Taking a first look at the restored Banqueting House
There’s a Harry Potter themed Christmas Tree in King’s Cross station
Architects pitch alternative Liverpool Street station “Arch” to rival Network Rail’s “tower”
Government shuts VAT loophole that used by some taxi firms to lower their tax bill
Smoke and sirens at Fenchurch Street as c2c stages fire evacuation drill
Edwin Austin Abbey’s huge Pennsylvania Capitol mural makes a rare return to the UK
Photos of the new Colindale station ahead of its opening
Final design for the British Museum’s new security sheds submitted for approval
Buy your mince pies and Christmas hampers from Brixton prison
Step-free access at Mill Hill Broadway station moves forward after years of delays
Once hidden behind a curtain, Caravaggio’s Cupid goes on free display at the Wallace Collection
Cracking good fun: Wallace & Gromit are coming to Young V&A next year
The hidden chemical attack that forced the Northern line’s extraordinary repair
London’s cycling trips hit 1.5 million a day as ridership surges 43% since 2019
New mural unviled at Brixton tube station
14 gift ideas for Londonphilles this Christmas
Strawberries, Pimms and a side of tennis: Wimbledon’s tennis museum serves up a food-themed exhibition
London’s Alleys: Budds Alley, Twickenham
Chase replacing Google on Tube readers as TfL unveils new ‘Official Payment Partner’
England’s rail fares to be frozen in 2026 — well some of them will be
Could Batman encourage more people to offer their seats on trains?
Trafalgar Square’s Christmas tree chopped down earlier today in an Oslo forest
Pantos, musicals and plays go on sale as West End unveils early Black Friday deals
You can see a working Quantum Computer in IBM’s London office
Mayor shows plans to reroute buses and reclaim Oxford Street for pedestrians
Tickets Alert: UCL’s 200th anniversary light show in central London
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A Twin Peaks installation leads BFI’s month-long David Lynch celebration
Southeast London railway becomes UK’s first to use new low-carbon track
St Mary le Strand’s ‘shimmering’ art screen turns out to be painted fabric over scaffolding
More dates announced to visit Railway 200’s travelling exhibition train
DLR extension to Thamesmead set to be approved in the Budget statement
New Thames Tideway ‘bulges’ open as public spaces atop London’s super sewer
Tickets Alert: Winter canal trips through the Islington tunnel
Archaeologists find prehistoric tools and lost Medieval Hall under Houses of Parliament
Lost for Decades: Alice in Wonderland illustrator’s heritage plaque rediscovered
LT Museum’s new exhibition charts 100 years of Art Deco
London’s Pocket Parks: St Paul’s Churchyard, Covent Garden
£18m overhaul approved to rescue Highgate Cemetery from ‘romantic decay’
Design competition showcases four proposals to reinvent Clapham’s railway bridge
Replacement of 20-year-old gates gives glimpse inside drained Regent’s Canal lock
Swap socks for sculptures: The best Museum Memberships for Christmas gifts
Camden to lead major Euston area regeneration plan
Harrods to remove Al-Fayed’s Egyptian themed escalators
Stansted Airport to accept London’s contactless tickets as 50 more train stations upgraded
London’s Alleys: Argyle Passage, N17
London’s new Museum of Shakespeare delays its opening date to 2026
Lambeth’s Covid Memorial Wall to be preserved as a monument to the pandemic
Churchill Arms’ Christmas lights spark street-spilling crowds and a last-second bus dash
Westminster council issuing £100 fines for badly parked hire bikes and pedicabs
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The City’s historic Simpsons Tavern chophouse to reopen after long legal battle
Fulham Broadway Tube station’s glass canopy gets long-awaited repair
Dazzling light trail brings 3D projections to the Old Royal Naval College
Cycle-to-Work perks could shrink while TfL hire bikes remain a little-known option for commuters
Southwark tube station gains heritage protection for its striking late-20th-century design
Tiles, Training, and Taste: The Victorian vision behind the V&A’s ceramic staircase
Safety probe launched after new DLR train overshoots platform
Tickets Alert: Almshouse tours by candlelight
A reminder to visit the Post Building’s free public roof garden
Plans unveiled to reopen the London Fire Brigade’s museum
Amphibious bus tours to return to the Thames with new electric vehicles
Birds feast and boats rest as the Thames is lowered for the annual Richmond Draw-Off
Tickets Alert: See inside the Barts Pathology Museum
Free exhibition bringing Harland Miller’s typographic art to the Design Museum
Over 1,000 hire bikes removed by Kensington and Chelsea council
A ghostly horse haunts Fitzrovia Chapel in Ben Edge’s exhibition of folklore tradition
Tickets Alert: Christmas open day at Lambeth Palace
Clapham Junction’s grimy underpass gets a bright new look with first art panels installed
Elizabeth line shut through central London this weekend – no trains to Heathrow
The Disney Castle has landed at Selfridges
Ever Oslo wins Norway’s vote to light up Trafalgar Square this Christmas
Triple Trouble: When three art giants combine to create one giant yawn
London’s Alleys: British Grove, W4
Restoration of Burton’s Mausoleum starts with aim to reopen the tomb for visits
Tickets Alert: Banqueting House is reopening to the public
Tickets Alert: Tours of Westminster School
From bombsite to Backstage: Old Vic opens its £17 million extension building
TfL begins supplier search for £1.6bn DLR link to Thamesmead
Horizon 22 – London’s highest free viewing gallery switches to Monday ticket releases
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Save the date: Class 455 train farewell tour in December
Your artwork could light up Battersea Power Station this Christmas
Is that Silver Nemesis on St Pancras station’s rotating Christmas tree?
London’s Pocket Parks: Arlington Square, N1
More London landmarks saved – but over 600 still at risk, warns Historic England
Book Signing Alert – The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
Railfuture urges end of dedicated Gatwick Express to boost Brighton Mainline capacity
Tickets Alert: A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College Cambridge
From the Shadows: Rare reunion of Wright of Derby masterpieces opens in London
The V&A’s new East Museum confirms opening date and debut exhibition
London’s Public Art: Father Thames by Stephen Duncan
SWR signs £66m support deal with Alstom for new Arterio trains
Tube strike threat fades as TfL agrees long-term pay deal with RMT union
Christmas jumpers from London’s venues
Tickets Alert: Early evening walks through the Mail Rail tunnels
HS2’s tunnel boring machines set to start Euston dig “fairly soon”, says Rail Minister
Deliveroo delayed? Don’t call 999, Met pleads after surge in trivial calls
Wandsworth Town station to gain step-free access and reopen long-lost north entrance
King’s Gallery to unveil the largest-ever exhibition of Queen Elizabeth II’s wardrobe
Southeastern rolls out thermal cameras on more trains to catch faults before they cause delays
Tickets Alert: The Messiah in St Paul’s Cathedral
London’s new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration to open in May 2026
TfL snaps up block of land next to Brixton tube station
Metropolitan line to remain blocked at Baker Street all week due to track fault
London’s Alleys: Greystoke Place (redux), EC4
Your guide to London’s 2025 Christmas lights switch on events
A cathedral of light: Soothing display illuminates the Painted Hall until January 2026
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Tickets Alert: A winter light trail returns to Chelsea
Contemporary art exhibition vanishes within Freud’s antique-filled museum
Tickets Alert: More dates for tours of the Royal Court Theatre
Jo Brand lends her voice to London Poppy Day across the Tube and rail network
Eurostar set for competition as Virgin Trains granted Temple Mills rail depot access rights
From Sheriff to Scandal: The remarkable life and tomb of Sir William Rawlins
Step-free access restored at Sutton station after all three lifts were replaced
Guinness confirms delayed December opening for its Covent Garden mega-pub
City of London’s state coach goes on display ahead of the Lady Mayor’s Show
Exhibition celebrates the women who shaped 150 years of Liberty’s textile designs
Government urged to back Bakerloo and DLR extensions unlocking 130,000 London homes
Plaques honour Thomas and Fanny Holcroft, the Georgian reformers once charged with treason
New Railway Atlas charts Oxford–Cambridge rebuild and Foynes Revival in 16th edition
A rare medieval scroll to protect mothers during chilldbirth has gone on display
First look inside the Derby factory building the Elizabeth line’s new trains
A field of glowing roses is coming to Chelsea
Liverpool Street station to close for 8-days over Christmas
From corner shops to demolition crews: Exhibition captures the vanishing East End of the 1970s
London’s Alleys: French Place, E1
Sundays with Dr Johnson: Historic house opens for weekend visitors
Warning: This exhibition contains classified maps. Also the word ‘Secret’ about 9,000 times
Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes tours of the Barbican’s theatre
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Audrey Hepburn’s former Mayfair home celebrated with new English Heritage Blue Plaque
Government targets 2030 for full 5G on railways, with satellite boost for rural routes
Greater Anglia offering cheap train travel tickets this autumn
V&A celebrates 125 years of women printmakers in free exhibition
Cheesy fashion show to take place in Charing Cross station’s disused Jubilee line platforms
Time Immemorial turns 750: The Medieval law that froze history at 1189
Brunel Museum lowers prices for single parents to visit
Restored, stripped, reimagined: Leighton House charts its turbulent past in centenary show
Tickets Alert: Tours of UCL’s north London telescope observatory
Eurostar is reintroducing double-decker trains to the UK
London’s Pocket Parks: Salutation Gardens, WC1
TfL Go app expands to show every London bus stop and live arrivals city-wide
Tickets Alert: Charles Dickens museum on Christmas Eve
Fabergé’s legendary Winter Egg to go on public display in London before £20 million auction
Poems on the Underground’s autumnal season of verse
Quantum Untangled? More Like art in a tangle at the Science Gallery
Search begins for engineering partner to reboot multi-billion-pound Euston station rebuild
Southeastern to roll out 3D station maps to boost accessibility across its network
Decision tonight could seal the fate of a second entrance at Woolwich’s Elizabeth line station
Original design for Hepworth’s John Lewis Winged Figure to be auctioned for the first time
Large cycle hub for 650 bikes opens at Richmond Station
New mural weaves tribute to Fitzrovia’s working women
Doof Doof at 40: EastEnders exhibition brings Walford to life in Elstree
London’s Alleys: Clipstone Mews, W1
Screaming Norwegians and brooding Swedes: Nordic art brings a chilly edge to the British Museum
London Overground restores station waiting room thats been closed for 40 years
London to get a second Dangleway as Olympic Park’s Orbit tower plans zip-wire ride
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Ealing’s most secretive neighbour: 1920s house next to the North Korean Embassy up for sale
A Yuletide of opulence: Chiswick House reimagines 18th-century Christmas revelry
New national railway clock unveiled – the first redesign since British Rail’s 1970s design manual
Old Piccadilly line trains to be cannibalised to keep Bakerloo line running
Not your average lampposts – Lee Broom’s chandelier of lights at the Royal Festival Hall
The Courtauld gallery receives the largest donation in its history
London’s Public Art: Twiggy on Bourdon Place W1
Tickets Alert: Visit the Fan Museum while it’s lit by candles
National Army Museum plans new underground expansion with new gallery and auditorium
Look, no hands! Waymo’s driverless cars set to hit London roads within weeks
Inside Selhurst: How engineers rebuilt 300 Electrostar trains without sending a single one off-site
London’s Pocket Parks, Latchmere Recreation Ground, SW11
From snails to street signs: Soho’s history revealed on a new digital map
Chiltern Railways unveils first refurbished Mark 5A trains ahead of 2026 rollout
Graveyard chills: Watch classic horror films inside a Victorian mortuary chapel
Mapping Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin’s maps go on display at the Architectural Association
Tudor treasure: Henry VIII’s gold love pendant goes on display at the British Museum
The Elizabeth line that never was: The Watford Junction extension from Old Oak Common
Tickets Alert: Visit the West India Docks Impounding Station
Bitch, Camera, Action! Cecil Beaton’s glittering vicious world at the National Portrait Gallery
Tickets Alert: Evening opening of Severndroog Castle
London’s Alleys: Leverton Place, NW5
Tickets Alert: Ballot opens for free visits to Battersea’s Sky Garden
Tickets for London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks go on sale next Friday
Arty bums for sale! National Gallery auctions off its famously well-sat sofas
Historic Bretons Manor set for restoration ahead of its 300th anniversary
Public ownership expands as Greater Anglia is nationalised on Sunday
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Tickets Alert: Free tours of a Round the World racing yacht
Suited, booted, and unmuted: Gilbert & George fill the Hayward with glossy chaos and self-portraits
Arts Council awards £1.43 million lifeline to six of London’s smaller museums
Les Misérables to return to Royal Albert Hall for a 40th anniversary concert
Hammersmith Flyover could be buried in new road tunnel under council plans
The Star Wars model that got away: A forty-year quest for a childhood dream
Pick your own pumpkin: Farms around London ready for Halloween
Grease, Grime and Wet Wipes: 125-metre “fatberg” hauled from London’s sewers
Tickets go on sale for the atmospheric Dennis Severs’ House Christmas experience
World’s largest vaccine maker to fund Science Museum gallery refurbishment
Whale buses, rocket ships and flying cars: The Cartoon Museum looks at yesterday’s tomorrow
£10m heritage grant to improve access at the Royal Observatory Greenwich
London’s public art: Norman Ackroyd’s etched landscape on a Wells Street door
England Expects: Turner’s monumental tribute to Trafalgar returns to public display
Tickets Alert: Tours of the Middle Temple Library
Beyond Florence Nightingale: Exhibition challenges the changing face of nursing
TfL’s pavement ducts helping to improve mobile phone signals
Up in Smoke: Battersea’s Lift109 viewing gallery rebranding as The Chimney Lift
Bart’s nearly 300 year old Great Hall opens to the public for free visits
Halloween-themed late night tours of Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Battersea’s tube station’s second entrance officially opened this morning
Hieroglyphs and Homeware: Sir John Soane’s Museum explores Britain’s Egyptian obsession
For the first time in 800 years, the Lord Mayor’s Show is changing its name
London’s Alleys: Bateman’s Buildings, W1
Oxford Street’s car-free day delivers mixed results – shoppers up, but for how long
Golden Hinde to celebrate 30 years in Southwark with restoration plans
Your guide to London’s 2025 fireworks and bonfire displays
Try Opera for £15: Fairy dust, Glass slippers and a fresh take on Rossini’s Cinderella
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Exclusive: GWR’s battery-powered ex-Tube train could soon carry passengers
See Hairy Styles with the Three Testicles at the Linnean Society
Southwark Cathedral will be filled with a light and sound spectacle this November
London’s Pocket Parks: Natural Dye and Wellbeing Garden, SE1
All Aboard! Free tickets for the Railway 200 exhibition train’s London return visit
Jewelled brooches brought together at Wartski for an exceptional free exhibition