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Commuters are set to miss out on Transport for London’s (TfL) planned improvements to the District Line, it has been claimed.

TfL has proposed increasing the number of Wimbledon trains during the morning rush hour, providing capacity for more than 4,000 extra passengers from December this year. It also hoped to bring in another train to Ealing Broadway during the evening, benefiting more than 800 people.

But commuters in Richmond claimed TfL’s plans left them out in the cold and it desperately needed to improve their stretch of the District Line as well. 

21:18, 11 Jul 2011 by Matthew Rees

A man has died after being struck by a train at a level crossing. The incident happened at 6.50am on Tuesday 5 July at the level crossing at Summer Road in Thames Ditton.

Paramedics from the South East Coast Ambulance Service attended, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene. A spokesman for British Transport Police (BTP) said the incident was not being treated as suspicious.

13:48, 07 Jul 2011 by Matthew Rees