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London Underground launches new night tube service
29 September, 2014
GREAT BRITAIN - The mayor and London Underground (LU) announced earlier this week that 24-hour 'night tube' services at weekends will begin operation from the early hours of 12 September 2015, reducing night-time journeys by an average of 20 minutes and some by more than an hour

London Underground begins search for additional trains
22 August, 2014
GREAT BRITAIN – London Underground (LU) announced last month that it has begun a search to secure additional Jubilee and Northern Line trains. It said combining the orders would ensure value for money for customers, and that the additional trains and modern signalling system will boost capacity.

Preferred bidder for Northern Line extension named
21 July, 2014
London Underground (LU) has announced that a Ferrovial/ Laing O¹Rourke joint venture is the preferred bidder for the Northern Line Extension contract.

LU services increase as record journeys made on tube
12 June, 2014
London Underground (LU) carried more customers and ran more train during the last year than ever before, according to new figures published by Transport for London (TfL) earlier this week.

Slow progress on Ho Chi Minh City car parks
04 April, 2014
Red tape and financial difficulties have delayed the construction of several underground car parks approved by the Ho Chi Minh City government in Vietnam.

Sweeping changes for London Underground spark union fury
22 November, 2013
Transport for London (TfL) laid out a set of changes for the operation of the London Underground (LU) this morning. Notable among these are 24-hour services planned across several lines on Fridays and Saturdays, and the closure of every ticket office in the network by 2015, reportedly costing 750 jobs.

Facing the future
25 September, 2013
The population of London is expected to reach 10 million by 2030, and the future of the Underground is crucial to supporting this growth. Neil Moss, principal tunnel engineer, and Keith Bowers, profession head for tunnel engineering, both of London Underground, review possible future developments in the near future

Funding Gap
25 September, 2013
Highlights such as the Jubilee Line Extension stand out from the economic mire of the past 50 years. The second half of the 20th century was not kind to a Britain newly stripped of superpower status, or the capital’s metro, which following WW2 entered a half century of neglect and underinvestment

London Bank upgrade awarded
15 July, 2013
Transport for London¹s (TfL) Board has approved the funding to award a contract to Dragados SA, through the new Innovative Contractor Engagement (ICE) process for the Bank station capacity upgrade project, it was announced last week. TfL has notified all contract bidders of the outcome of the procurement and started the standstill period, which will end in four days time, after which TfL will formally award the contract.

Sprayed overbridges
06 June, 2013
SCL overbridges at tottenham court road. Andreas Feiersinger of dr. Sauer & partners, and Phillip Lea of Halcrow were the authors of this paper, which was presented at the March meeting of the british tunnelling Society

Bond street models
16 May, 2013
Congested Bond Street Station at the heart of London's Underground is one of the key challenges for an upgrade project. Ali Nasekhian, Thomas Schwind and Stefan Pinter of Dr Sauer explain 3D modelling for the project

Tunnel Environment
13 March, 2013
Environmental monitoring is getting an increased focus from tunnel clients, designers and contractors. Alex Conacher speaks to a variety of the parties to find out some of the main concerns, and what developments are being made in thinking and technology.

London crawling
27 August, 2012
As T&TI goes to press in its London offices, and the world watches the city prepare for the Olympics, locals are bemused at the prospect of inviting 5.3 million guests from all over the world to fight for a seat on the aging, and massively over-capacity infrastructure in the UK capital.

Shortlisted bidders for Bank Station announced
10 May, 2012

London Underground trains hit tunnel bulge
26 April, 2012

Tunnelling induced settlements in London clay
20 April, 2012
Robert Mair of Cambridge University, Jamie Standing of Imperial College and Keith Bowers of London Underground presented three papers on the effects of settlement in London Clay at a joint meeting of the BTS and British Geotechnical Association in January

Supporting Victoria
17 April, 2012
The UK’s first use of jet grouting in conjunction with shallow sprayed concrete lined tunnelling and pioneering use of building information modelling are among the many innovations on London Underground’s ultra-challenging Victoria Station Upgrade programme. Andrew Mylius of Mott MacDonald reports

China generates seismic waves under Tibet
26 October, 2011

TCR a century on: five worksites in one
18 October, 2011
Tottenham Court Road is undergoing two major development projects, for Crossrail and London Underground. The ageing station’s concrete structure has had over 100 years to set and with few records to warn of what lies beyond it, tunnellers have to be ready for anything - there are even rumours of a discarded TBM. Alex Conacher visits the site and meets with resident tunnelling bigwigs

Predicted and encountered deformations
25 August, 2011
Andreas Feiersinger of Dr. Sauer Company was the runner up in the British Tunnelling Society 2011 Harding Prize for this paper comparing deformations predicted using 3D Finite Element Analysis with those encountered on the Green Park station upgrade in London