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Featured local business - Clubtek

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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...

They Roll Among Us

Nov

2014

“Oh, don't mind Humpty. He's inhaled a hell of a lot of super-glue.”- Jack of Fables@BrockleyCentral They do exist! #5thCar pic.twitter.com/GBNdCiuNNt— Peter T (@Chimpman) November 25, 2014The fabled fifth East London Line carriage is here. London Overground confirms that "the first of the five-car trains is now in service between Highbury & Islington and West ...

Longer East London Line trains are here!

Nov

2014

TfL's just-in-time delivery means that extra capacity on the East London Line should just about offset the extra space taken up by passengers' winter coats this Christmas. Monkeyboy sent us this release and these photos from the launch of the longer trains yesterday, which confirmed that five-carriage service will start next week. TfL says:A special preview ...

London Overground 2026

Sep

2014

City Metric has found another new TfL map, this one showing how the London Overground network will be expanded by 2026. The site explains:The map shows all the bits of the rail network whose operators will be answerable to the city’s government, rather than the national Department for Transport. That includes the existing Overground network; ...

East London Line drives Brockley house prices

Sep

2014

Prices of homes near the East London Line have risen faster than the London average, with houses near Brockley Station experiencing the second-fastest rise along the overground route, according to research by Hamilton International, reported in today's City AM. The paper says:Homes within a 10 minute walk of an overground station have outdone the rest ...

Brockley train service to be disrupted next month

Jul

2014

This will be fun. TfL issues this advice for people travelling from Brockley station:From Saturday 23 until Sunday 31 August, services at London Bridge mainline rail station will be affected while engineering work is carried out by Network Rail. This is part of the Thameslink Programme to increase capacity and improve connections. London Bridge Tube ...

East London Line expansion update

Jun

2014

London Reconnections has an interesting report on progress to expand capacity on the East London Line by converting the trains from four carriages to five.The plan is to do the expansion work at the New Cross Gate depot, enabling them to convert them at a rate of one train every two days. With that "aggressive" ...

East London Line: The Future

Jan

2014

BCer Monkeyboy has spotted this treat in Rail Technology Magazine, an interview with Huw Edwards, head of programme delivery at London Overground. Edwards says that all those rail replacement bus services we've had to put up with mean that they have been able to compress the project timeline from 3 years to 18 months, as ...

TfL plans for DLR, Overground and Bakerloo extensions in Lewisham

Dec

2013

BCer Monkeyboy has sent us a copy of the latest TfL Business Plan. In the section called "Unlocking the Future Growth of London", the document highlights Lewisham as a borough where future capacity is required and alludes to the possible extensions of Overground, Bakerloo and DLR services in the borough:We are continuing to assess ways ...

Storm disrupts Brockley transport services

Oct

2013

@BBCLondonNews Tree down in Brockley. pic.twitter.com/6vvuZQE3iL— Michelle Price (@michelleaprice) October 28, 2013At least they're being realistic. National Rail Enquiries reports that due to this evening's anticipated storms, there will be no Overground services and possibly no Southeastern trains tomorrow morning before 9am. Southern is also expected to be operating a reduced timetable."After this, it is ...

The Economist on East London Line

Oct

2013

Last post based on an Economist article for a while, we promise, but a few people tipped us off about this one and it's relevant to London's "great inversion", as well as our daily commutes.Last week, the magazine focused on the London Overground's impact on areas along its route and claims the TfL-run model is ...