TfL promised the District Line was ready for Wimbledon. It broke down the same afternoon.
The monitoring upgrade meant to prevent Parsons Green signal failures may not have been switched on
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TfL postpones District Line upgrade just weeks before Wimbledon
One engineering weekend remains, and TfL cannot say if it will be ready.
TfL and Network Rail are hiding from Londoners furious about the District Line
Last summer’s District Line meltdown left tens of thousands of Wimbledon passengers stranded, delayed, and furious. Nearly a…
The District Line is striking again. Four more dates you need to know about.
East Putney, Putney Bridge and Southfields affected from Tuesday - eight peak journeys at risk through June.
The 500-year-old landscape that survived polo, a piggery and the Blitz – is it time to ditch the car park?
Friends of Wimbledon Park has opened a public consultation on the future of Horse Close Wood. Anyone can respond.
A Southfields man joins an amdram group and finds Ibsen was writing about right now
Carlton Theatre Group opens An Enemy of the People this week - and the parallels to 2026 are hard to miss.
What Wandsworth’s council would look like if votes actually decided it
The Greens would hold 10 seats. Instead they hold none. The arithmetic behind the result.
Southfields hustings: the applause line that wasn’t true, and the truth nobody else said
One candidate got the loudest cheer of the night. Another got the facts right.
Southfields woman named Female Padel Player of the Year at awards held at the venue where she first played
Catherine Rose, British No.2, turned professional less than three years after picking up a racket for the first time.
Done in seconds: the Wimbledon Park amendment is now on the statute book
162-55 in the Lords, months of campaigning - then the Commons agreed it on the nod and moved on.