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Stanmore gets an upgrade
Stanmore Underground station begins a refurbishment this month.
Passengers can look forward to resurfaced platforms and a retiled entrance and ticket hall.
There'll be new CCTV cameras, Help points and public address system, and induction loops for hearing-impaired people as well as other innovations to make the station easier to navigate for partially sighted passengers.
The upgrade will be completed in 2009 with some weekend track closures, to allow the work to take place, scheduled to begin this November.
Bus documentary double
Screenings of Little Stage, Big Platform, are taking place at the London Transport Museum, telling the stories of five London bus conductors working between 1959 and 2005.
Meet 'Battling Betty' - the first female Trade's Union rep and an unofficial agony aunt for bus passengers.
There's also a dapper Barbadian who's a big hit ladies man, 18-year-old Scott who has to put the brakes on his romance with jealous driver Frank, a harmonica-tooting blues fan, and a bickering couple known as the 'Munsters of the Bus World'.
The night is a double which includes a screening of the 1970 British Transport documentary, The Nine Road.
The films are followed by a Little Stage, Big Platform Q&A session with Duke Baysee, one of the featured bus conductors, and the director.
The screenings form part of the Last Stop exhibition (until 27 July), a celebration of the iconic Routemaster bus and are taking place at the London Transport Museum.
To find out more, and to book, call 020 7565 7298.
Tunnel marks centenary
At 4,860 feet long and 27 foot in diameter the Rotherhithe tunnel was once the largest tunnel in the world.
Today the tunnel, which provides a vital link between the boroughs of Southwark and Tower Hamlets, will celebrate one hundred years.
Originally designed by Maurice Fitzmaurice for horse-drawn vehicles, the tunnel is now used by around 34,000 vehicles every day and it remains a vital link between north and south.
Transport for London engineers work tirelessly to ensure that it can cope safely with the constant pressures associated with today's volume of traffic - 13 times greater than it originally carried.
