This from Pastor Redwonn...
What a splendid opening last Tuesday of the new East London line.
But just how quickly did operator London Overground record its first SPAD on the new railway?
Five minutes?
Five hours?
Five days?
Perhaps we should be told?
This just in from The Sleeper...
It's not every day a new Overground line opens...
At 10:00 this Thursday the Mayor of London, BoJo the Great, will re-open the extended East London line and travel by special train from Dalston Junction to Shoreditch High Street.
As BoJo will be acompanied by the great and the good of the Metropolis, as well as myriad hacks, the occasion is expected to be marked in some style.
City Hall organisers are optimistic that this can be achieved by tying former mayor Ken Livingstone across the newly laid tracks.
UPDATE: This from a mildly annoyed Mizter T...
It would be rather churlish to tie ex-Mayor Ken to the tracks given that he is the reason the East London Line Extension project actually got off the ground in the first place, along with engineering the transfer of the lines that now make up TfL's London Overground from former operator Silverlink (aka Silverstink - at least when it came to their Metro operation).
One rather doubts Boris even knew where Dalston was until a couple of years ago - he certainly can't pronounce it right, calling it "Dahlston" when it is in fact "Dawlston".
Regardless, this ain't his doing by any measure!
London Reconnections has photos of the first test train on the East London line/Railway.
Meanwhile Boris Watch unveils a nice spat between DafT and TfL on funding for the replacement South London Line service.
Great headline too: Sadiq Khan bitch-slaps Boris
This from Sim Harris...
Is anyone paying attention?
According to The Department...
Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis said, "The new East London Line will be of great benefit to rail passengers in London with more frequent trains to more destinations."
Well, fair enough.
Except, err... it will be the 'East London Railway'.
The ELL designation has been dropped.
Who failed to brief the Noble Lord or did he merely fail to listen?
Good to see that BBC Radio 4's World Tonight elected to interview Ken Livingstone on the National Express East Coast Story.
Out of thirsty Ken flowed the usual late night tosh about the evils of privatisation and the failings of Metronet - an infrastructure company.
Could that be the same Ken Livingstone who when Mayor decided to privatise the operations of the formerly publicly operated London Underground East London line?
Perhaps we should be told?
But not by the lame editors of the World Tonight.
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