The service is operated by London Tramlink, an arm of Transport for London ( TfL ).

In 1990 Croydon Council with the then London Regional Transport ( LRT ) put the project to Parliament and the Croydon Tramlink Act 1994 resulted, which gave LRT the power to build and run Tramlink.

The background to this purchase relates to the requirement that TfL ( who took over from London Regional Transport in 2000 ) compensates TCL for the consequences of any changes to the fares and ticketing policy introduced since 1996.

* Chartered Institute of Transport London

To give another example, the validity of a pass on London Regional Transport services is until the end of the " transport day " -- that is to say, until 4: 30 am on the day after the " expiry " date stamped on the pass.

The DLR is operated under a concession awarded by Transport for London to Serco Limited, part of the Serco Group.

The system is owned by Docklands Light Rail Limited, part of the London Rail division of Transport for London.

Transport links have improved significantly, with the Isle of Dogs gaining a tube connection via the Jubilee Line Extension ( opened 1999 ) and the DLR being extended to Beckton, Lewisham, London City Airport, North Woolwich and Stratford.

The term Greater London was used well before 1965, particularly to refer to the area covered by the Metropolitan Police District ( such as in the 1901 census ), the area of the Metropolitan Water Board ( favoured by the London County Council for statistics ), the London Passenger Transport Area and the area defined by the Registrar General as the Greater London Conurbation.

They became part of an integrated transport system in 1933 when the London Passenger Transport Board ( LPTB ) or London Transport was created.

Since 2003 LUL has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Transport for London ( TfL ), the statutory corporation responsible for most aspects of the transport system in Greater London, which is run by a board and a commissioner appointed by the Mayor of London.

* Frank Pick, Managing Director of the Underground Group from 1928 and Chief Executive of the London Passenger Transport Board from its creation in 1933 until 1940.

* Lord Ashfield, chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) from 1910 to 1933 and chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board ( LPTB ) from 1933 to 1947.

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*, formerly HMS Atlas, used by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, London from 1881-1904

The situation was greatly complicated by the large number of landowners involved: the PLA, the Greater London Council ( GLC ), the British Gas Corporation, five borough councils, British Rail and the Central Electricity Generating Board.

The same year she was elected to the first London School Board, an office newly opened to women ; Elizabeth's was the highest vote among all the candidates.

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After a period of unemployment, Major started working at the London Electricity Board ( where his successor as the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, also worked when he was young ) in 1963, and he decided to undertake a correspondence course in banking.

The period began with the creation of the London Passenger Transport Board, which covered the County of London and adjacent counties within a 30-mile ( 48-km ) radius.

This area later came under the control of the London Transport Executive and then the London Transport Board.

The London Passenger Transport Board ( LPTB ) was the transport authority from 1 July 1933 to 31 December 1947.

The ' roundel symbol ' designed in 1918 was adopted by London Passenger Transport Board and the London Transport brand and architectural style was perfected during this period.

The legislation creating the Greater London Council ( GLC ) was already passed in 1963 when the London Transport Board was created.

At the end of the fourth day's play the Australian Board of Control for Cricket sent the following cable to the MCC in London:

That was the new advertising angle -- something about a Lloyd's of London policy to insure the secrecy of the secret ingredient.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!

In B. M. Spinley's portrayal of the underprivileged and undereducated youth of London, a salient finding was the inability to postpone gratification, a need to satisfy impulses immediately without the pleasure of anticipation or of savoring the experience.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

He worked as a `` clothier '' in London, but was greatly concerned with religion.

Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.

He listed what he had spent for `` My own diet in London eighteen weeks, in which I was sick a month ; ;

He was in London `` searching records for our town's causes '' in 1600 with young Henry Sturley, the assistant schoolmaster.

Quiney was in London again in June, 1601, and in November, when he rode up, as Shakespeare must often have done, by way of Oxford, High Wycombe, and Uxbridge, and home through Aylesbury and Banbury.

With these and similar tales he was entertaining his English friends, all of whom he was seeing when he was not showing Blackman the sights of London and its environs.

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

The issue was acute because the exiled Polish Government in London, supported in the main by Britain, was still competing with the new Lublin Government formed behind the Red Army.

Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

This trade was subject to a tariff of 7.5 per cent after February 1835, but much was smuggled into Assiniboia with the result that the duty was reduced by 1841 to 4 per cent on the initiative of the London committee.

There was Sounder, too, also a veteran of the North Rim, and Rastus and the Rake from a pack of English fox-hounds, and a collie from a London pound, and Simba, a terrier.