6 d. ago Rail minister reports himself to police after using phone while driving a bus

Lord Peter Hendy apologises after being spotted texting behind wheel of vintage Routemaster in LondonThe rail minister, Lord Peter Hendy, has reported himself to the police after he was spotted using a mobile phone while driving a vintage Routemaster bus in London during a charity tour.The former Transport for London commissioner apologised for what has been described as an “error of judgment” after a passenger saw him texting behind the wheel of the double-decker last month. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago International train fares from London could be cut by 30% – report

The analysis was commissioned by London St Pancras High Speed, which owns St Pancras station and the tracks to the Channel Tunnel.

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1 week ago Four new tube posters commissioned by the London Transport Museum

Four new tube posters commissioned by the London Transport Museum  ianVisits

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2 w. ago When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – juicy stories from the heydey of magazines

From Anna Wintour’s table manners to Oscar party hijinks, the former editor of Vanity Fair tells all There are lines in When the Going Was Good, Graydon Carter’s memoir of his swashbuckling career as an editor during the heyday of magazines, that will make any journalist laugh (bitterly) out loud. “There was a bar at the end of each corridor,” writes Carter of his first job at Time magazine in the mid-1970s, where expense accounts were huge, oversight relaxed and, “I went five years without ever turning on my oven”. At Vanity Fair, where Carter took over the editorship in 1992, “the budget had no ceiling. I could send anybody anywhere for as long as I wanted.” For a commission on the collapse of Lloyd’s of London, one Vanity Fair hack ran up expenses of $180,000 – and the piece didn’t run.These are the details most readers will come for and Carter, who at 75 remains a symbol of magazine glamour and excess – a fact somehow vested in the whimsy and extravagance of his comic-book hair ...

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3 w. ago Beautiful UK village where you can ride 'old school' trams and step back in time

Crich Tramway Village in Derbyshire is a unique open-air museum that offers a nostalgic journey into Britain's rich transport history - and it's perfect for a weekend getaway

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3 w. ago London Transit Commission board members quit, urge city to take over running bus system

London Transit Commission board members quit, urge city to take over running bus system  CBC.ca

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4 w. ago Norway’s sovereign wealth fund buys a quarter of London’s Covent Garden

Shaftesbury Capital sells stake in estate, which includes shops, market and transport museum siteBusiness live latest updatesNorway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest, has made a fresh bet on the future success of central London as the country’s investment vehicle struck a £570m deal to buy a quarter of the Covent Garden estate.Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages $1.8tn (£1.4tn) and invests government money from the oil industry, announced on Thursday that it had bought the 25% stake in the £2.7bn Covent Garden property portfolio of the landlord Shaftesbury Capital. Continue reading...

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