Dangleway for schools

Are you a schoolteacher in the London area? Are you looking for an exciting venue for a class trip? Well, the Transport for London Safety & Citizenship team may have the answer. The Emirates Air...

Battersea Power Station

If you love Battersea Power Station, there's currently a rare opportunity to visit. Not visit properly, there's no getting inside the boiler house or turbine hall. But you can wander up close to...

Nunhead Cemetery

Nunhead Cemetery is one of London's Magnificent Seven, a ring of private burial grounds established around the edge of the capital in the 1830s. Highgate's the best known, Kensal Green's the...

Peace Pavilion, Bethnal Green

Pavilions are ten a penny these days. You can't move in London without stumbling across a pop-up structure, designed by architects, occupying some public space somewhere. These temporary creations...

I nearly

I nearly walked to work yesterday. It's Walk To Work Week this week, and I like to play my part. From home to the office is only five and a bit miles, which is perfectly doable, and it's a...

Crossrail postbag

Just for a change, let's delve into the diamond geezer readers' postbag. Or rather, let's take a look at your interesting comments from yesterday and share them with a wider audience. If you...

Crossrail 2

We've not yet got Crossrail, but how do you feel about Crossrail 2? TfL would very much like to know, so they've launched a consultation and it runs until the start of August. If built Crossrail 2...

Piccadilly: St Ann's Road

PICCADILLY: Harringay (St Ann's Road) There are several long gaps between stations on the Piccadilly line. Sometimes that's because the intermediate station was closed, as with Brompton Road (in...

Bladdered

For reasons I have never adequately understood, my bladder knows when I am almost home. It can stay dormant for hours if required, which is a useful trick, but then suddenly wakes up as my front...

Not Water Chariots

Remember Lee and Stort Boat Co. They've transformed most of their metal sign depicting the nearby mill buildings. But lo, there was the former Water Chariot low in the water, with most of its...

Fun on the Green

It's National Mills Weekend! That means windmills and watermills across the country are open for your delectation and delight. Whethere you're in Anglesey, Devon or Norfolk, there'll likely be one...

W&C evening extension

At what time do London's last tube trains run into their last stations? Last trains: Monday - Saturday Bakerloo: arrives Stonebridge Park 0053 Central: arrives Loughton 0130 Circle: arrives...

Re-class-ification

Prime Ministerial briefing paper - embargo 09/05/13 RE-CLASS-IFICATION Hi David We've had this excellent idea down at the Department, and we wondered awfully whether you might be able to squeeze it...

Amberley Museum

Day out: Amberley Museum My job today is to persuade you to visit a museum 50 miles from London. Not because I've been asked, but because I suspect you might enjoy it. As such I'll be dropping into...

Queen of Roman Road

Tonight Bow E3 hits your TV screen. You probably won't notice, because it's appearing at the same time as the opening round of The Apprentice. But switch to Channel 4 at nine, or use your favourite...

Park Royal and Twyford Abbey

PICCADILLY: Park Royal & Twyford Abbey The Piccadilly line has more than its fair share of abandoned stations. The more well known are in the centre of town (Aldwych, Down Street, Brompton Road,...

Battle of Britain Bunker

PICCADILLY: RAF Uxbridge Across the road from Uxbridge town centre, World War II was won. And if you're thinking that sounds rather too grand a claim, see what you think later... They hid Bomber...

Late spring

10H

PICCADILLY: Ten It's possible to travel through ten consecutive underground stations, all beginning with the same letter of the alphabet, without changing trains. But how? You'd not think Hounslow...

Piccadilly: Down the line

PICCADILLY: Down the line Another month, another tube line, another end-to-end journey. Except the Piccadilly allows an end-to-end and-back-again journey, for added value, if you ride around the...

Last trains

WEST END APPEAL FOR 24 HOUR TUBE screamed the headline in yesterday's Evening Standard. Their front page article referred to a report published by the West End Commission, a 12-strong thinktank set...

London Loop 1

WALK LONDON The London Loop [section 1] Erith to Old Bexley (9½ miles) I'm now halfway through my decade-long circumnavigation round the London Loop. I've been attacking its sections...

Joydens Wood

Route B12: Erith - Joydens Wood Location: London southeast Length of journey: 8 miles, 50 minutes London has some pretty obscure bus routes... unless they're your local bus route, in which case...

Peninsula waterside

As bleak urban safaris go, few come better than the western edge of the Greenwich peninsula. The wealth of Docklands rises from the other side of the Thames, but there's none of that along here....

Narrow, blocked

It pays to keep an eye on TfL Consultations microsite, because you never know what changes may be coming up next. This one popped up on Thursday. Proposed changes to bus routes in Hackney town...

Four blogs

Four blogs I've not previously mentioned thamesfacingeast: "The blog to find out about the Thames east of the City of London" ...which means a lot of grey estuarine stuff, from Greenwich-ish...

H&C: the West end

HAMMERSMITH & CITY: the West end Having walked from Hammersmith to Royal Oak, how about riding it? There are eight stations in total, each a bit different, but still very much of a type. Here are a...

...to Royal Oak

HAMMERSMITH & CITY: Walk the line I'm following the western end of the Hammersmith & City line. I'm travelling on foot, rather than by train. I'm walking four miles alongside the railway viaduct,...

From Hammersmith

HAMMERSMITH & CITY: Walk the line 125 years before the Hammersmith & City line there was the Hammersmith & City Railway. Opened in 1864, it was built as an offshoot of the Great Western Railway to...

Five minute wonder

Things are looking up again for London's cablecar*. * That's because it's no longer winter. Indeed, if you catch me saying anything positive about the cablecar in what follows, try adding the...