Christmas travel: Engineering works to disrupt train services including Gatwick Express, Heathrow Express, Thameslink, Southern, Southeastern and many, many more December 18, 2015 Hoping to get away this Christmas? Well, start working on plan B because Network Rail has other ideas. This Christmas and New Year, one of the biggest-ever investment programmes is being carried out on the country's train infrastructure. New station facilities, longer platforms, extra tracks, new junctions and thousands of pieces of new equipment will be installed [...]
Longest Tube interchange: 10 Tube stations where changing lines takes longest October 9, 2015 It’s not just your imagination: You really are spending hours of your life wandering around the labyrinthine tunnels that connect the different Tube lines at Bank and Monument. But as far as long Tube interchanges go, it’s not actually London’s worst. That dubious honour goes to Paddington, where the connection between the Bakerloo and Hammersmith [...]
The UK’s busiest stations: Waterloo welcomes largest number of passengers while Stratford rockets and London Bridge declines December 16, 2015 If you feel like Waterloo station is a little busy these days, you'd be right. Once again, it has been crowned the country's busiest station, with an astonishing 99m passengers passing though its doors over the past year, new figures reveal. Stations across the countries are becoming busier than ever, and overall passenger numbers grew by 4.5 per [...]
Marks & Spencer looks to solve legal wrangle with former landlord BNP Paribas December 1, 2015 It’s not just individuals that quibble with their landlords. Marks & Spencer (M&S) is tomorrow hoping to settle a long-running dispute with former landlord BNP Paribas over rent it claims to have overpaid on its old Paddington offices. In July 2011, the high street retailer exercised a break in its leases and served notice on four floors of [...]
Travel chaos at London Waterloo, Paddington and Charing Cross stations January 23, 2015 There was travel chaos during rush hour this morning, as two of London's biggest stations were evacuated and one was hit by delays and cancellations after signalling problems. Waterloo station was reopened following an evacuation after a member of London Underground accidentally set off an alarm. The alarm sounded at 9.01am, according to the British [...]
Marks and Spencer loses appeal against former landlord BNP Paribas December 2, 2015 You know that times are tough for retailers when they are prepared to fight for every penny they could put back in the piggy-bank. Marks and Spencer (M&S) has today lost a long-running battle against its former landlord BNP Paribas after the Supreme Court dismissed its appeal to claw back £1.1m of rent it claims it overpaid. In July 2011, [...]
Tube closure, rail disruption and roadworks: Everything you need to know about the Easter bank holiday London travel disruptions at Euston, Paddington and Liverpool Street March 30, 2015 It looks like this weekend is set to be another classic London bank holiday, with miserable weather and even more miserable transport. As well as the usual weekend Tube closures and roadworks – which run from Friday until Monday – works are due to take place at many of the capital's main stations. Remember National [...]
The Long Weekend review: Thyme, Gloucestershire December 14, 2015 THE WEEKEND: Nestled deep in the Cotswolds countryside, former surgeon Caryn Hibbert has spent the last 12 years gradually buying up the 14th Southrop Manor and surrounding farm buildings to create an idyllic home away from home – first for her family and then for us, the lucky public. The result is Thyme hotel with [...]
First Great Western apologises to customers for underestimating need for services for World Cup game September 19, 2015 Train company First Great Western has issued an apology after acknowledging it did not prepare a sufficient amount of service to take customers to Cardiff for a world cup game. https://twitter.com/FGW/status/645178705980063744 Rugby fans at Paddington were attempting to travel to Cardiff to a rugby world cup match between Ireland and Canada, held at the Millennium [...]
First Great Western apologise to customers for underestimating need for services during World Cup game September 19, 2015 Train company First Great Western has issued an apology after acknowledging it did not prepare a sufficient amount of service to take customers to Cardiff for a world cup game. https://twitter.com/FGW/status/645178705980063744 Rugby fans at Paddington were attempting to travel to Cardiff to a rugby world cup match between Ireland and Canada, held at the Millennium [...]