London Underground - LU

2025 Sep 11
5:30pm BST

Steve's summertime talk

Talk synopsis

The Society's Annual General Meeting will be followed by a talk on the Evolution of the European Train Control System (ETCS). The Digital Railway initiative is undertaking the deployment of the European Rail Traffic Management System across the UK network in the coming decades. Since the start of the Cambrian project in 2006, the industry has made great steps in refining ETCS technology and understanding its deployment.

Speakers
Steve Wilson
2025 Nov 11
5:30pm GMT

Steve's wintertime talk

Talk synopsis

The largest part of London Underground is not in fact - underground. 

How does LU cope with conditions of ice, snow, fog, leaf-fall and the other difficulties of operating a surface railway in wintertime?

Speakers
Steve Wilson
2025 Aug 26
5:30pm BST

Restoration of Q-Stock

Talk synopsis

London Transport Museum is restoring a 1930s District line train into operational condition. The work is done by volunteers at the Museum Depot.

Restoring into operational condition is a fine balancing act between authenticity, originality and modern safety requirements. The challenges are varied, and include for example different operating current, unavailable materials, questions of which paint to use, which moquette pattern is correct, and variations over the train cars’ long service life.

Speakers
Katariina Mauranen
2025 Aug 14
10:00am BST

Greenwich Power Station

Scope

Greenwich Power Station is London Underground’s single remaining source of non-National Grid electricity. It is used as a standby power station available as a back-up electricity supply for the London Underground. Originally a coal-fired power station, Greenwich was built between 1902 and 1910 in order to supply electricity to the London Tram Network. Today electricity is generated by eight Rolls Royce Avon gas turbine engines which were installed between 1967 and 1972.