LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Tube system to extend to Docklands

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

16 Nov 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:03:05

Description

Margaret Shiels reports on the go-ahead being given to a Jubilee Line Underground extension to the Docklands area, partly financed by developers. Includes interviews with Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson and Rufus Barnes of London Regional Passengers Committee who says they would have liked to have seen Central London get priority to relieve congestion. For Update programme.

Contributors

Cecil Parkinson; Rufus Barnes; Margaret Shiels

Keywords

London; Public transport; London Underground; Underground railway networks; Private finance; Update (radio programme); Commuters

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