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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

The wrong sort of boiling water

Jun

2016

. @BrockleyCentral in case people were wondering about ELL problems, this is ACTUAL boiling water https://t.co/SkWiWXJHuC— Peter T (@Chimpman) June 23, 2016Flooding wrecked the train service throughout South East London this morning. The ELL is going for a boil-dry solution.

East London Line night time service doubled

May

2016

TfL has doubled the number of East London Line trains running each hour between 10pm and 11.30pm.Services to and from New Cross, Crystal Palace and West Croydon have been increased from a pitiful two trains per hour per route to an acceptable four trains per hour per route.

New deal for East London Line promises later trains

Mar

2016

TfL has appointed train operator Arriva to run the entire London Overground network and has promised that as a result, East London Line trains will run later into the night.No details of the extended service have yet been provided. Arriva's contract starts in November.Gareth Powell, TfL's chief operating officer, London Rail, said: “We have worked ...

Brockley passport snub causes diplomatic incident

Nov

2015

It's one thing to obliterate women from Britain's glorious cultural history, it's quite another to rub Brockley's tube-like station off the map.The new-look UK passport has been helping journalists fill space for the last week and now the Evening Standard has spotted that the designers have used an old tube map, which cuts the East ...

ELL: Two more trains each hour from 2018

Oct

2015

TfL has confirmed plans to introduce two more East London Line trains between Dalston and Crystal Palace from 2018, which would increase the frequency of ELL trains through Brockley at peak time from eight trains per hour to ten. The scheme to deliver a 25% capacity increase on the line has been necessitated by the phenomenal growth ...

Rail strike threatens train services [Strike cancelled]

May

2015

UPDATE: The strike's off after the union got a pay dealJust in time for the bank holiday, TfL says:Network Rail unions have called 48 hours of country-wide industrial action on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 May. If the strike goes ahead, it will affect Southern rail services on Monday, Tuesday and into Wednesday morning.No Transport ...

New Bermondsey serves up new East London Line station

Feb

2015

New Bermondsey is the new name for Old Surrey Canal. The mixed use development planned around Millwall's stadium will be renamed New Bermondsey and get a new station on the East London Line route to Clapham Junction.The news was part of the announcement made by the Chancellor, which also confirmed that the East London Line ...

East London Line to go all night from 2017 [UPDATED]

Feb

2015

The BBC reports that London Overground will run 24-hour weekend services from 2017 as part of a a wider programme to boost London's night-time economy. The article says:"Weekend trains are due to start running 24-hours on the Piccadilly, Victoria, Central, Jubilee and Northern lines by the end of the year. Night-time services will be extended ...

Orange order for TfL’s tangerine dream

Jan

2015

Officer Gilpin: You ever hear the expression the simplest answer is often the correct one?Detective Boney: Actually, I have never found that to be true. - Gone GirlThe Transport Committee's statement in support of the Bakerloo Line extension also asks for some much-needed clarity in terms of the options to extend the East London Line south ...

Central Line interchange for ELL could come as part of new Shoreditch terminus

Dec

2014

Shoreditch's continued growth as a major employment cluster and the arrival of Crossrail in 2018 could provide the motivation and means for the transport authorities to create a new interchange between the East London Line and the Central Line.Citymetric reports that Network Rail has proposed a major new rail terminus at Shoreditch - the first new ...