Transport for London has unveiled an ambition to take over the Great Northern inner suburban services between Moorgate, Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage, by including them in the Overground network. The proposal has been outlined in the draft of TfL’s latest Business Plan which will be considered by the TfL Board on 4 February.

Euston station in London is back on the high speed agenda, after the first of two tunnel boring machines began its subterranean journey from Old Oak Common to the Euston Road. This section has been mired in a controversy which was even greater than over the rest of the project, because when the previous government paused work at Euston it left a desolate worksite. The government now says the section between west and central London will be ‘essential to unlocking the project’s full economic potential.’