Tube upgrade schedule
There's a new brochure (well I think new, it's undated) on TfL's website that gives an overview of what the "Transforming the Tube" programme amounts to. There's a whole chunk of information hidden in the timeline that I thought I'd repeat here.
Completion of line upgrades (new signalling and trains):
- Mid 2007: Waterloo & City Line
- Mid 2009: Jubilee Line
- Late 2011: Victoria Line
- End 2011: Northern Line
- Mid-2014: Piccadilly Line
- Early2014: Circle Line
- Early 2015: Metropolitan Line
- Mid 2016: Hammersmith & City Line
- Mid 2018: District Line
- End 2020: Bakerloo Line
Power & cooling works completion (don't know what this is exactly):
- Mid 2007: Waterloo & City Line
- Mid 2009: Jubilee Line
- Mid 2010: Central Line
- Late 2010: Northern Line
- Late 2011: Victoria Line
- End 2011: Hammersmith & City Line
- Early 2012: Metropolitan Line
- Mid 2014: Circle Line
- Mid 2014: Piccadilly Line
- Mid 2018: District Line The Bakerloo Line isn't mentioned.
Major station upgrades (rebuilds and/or step-free access):
- Early 2007: North Greenwich (extra escalators)
- End 2007: Covent Garden
- Early 2009: White City (mainly Shepherd's Bush Central Line)
- Mid 2009: King's Cross St. Pancras
- Late 2010: West Ham
- Mid 2011: Paddington
- Late 2011: Vauxhall
- End 2011: Green Park
- Mid 2012: Highbury & Islington
- Late 2012: Finsbury Park
- Early 2014: Bond Street
- Late 2014: Victoria
- Late 2015: Tottenham Court Road
- 2020: Bank
Step free access totals:
- End 2006: 45 stations
- End 2007: 51 stations
- End 2008: 62 stations
- End 2009: 73 stations
- End 2010: 84 stations
- End 2011: 92 stations
- End 2012: 94 stations
Stations refurbishment totals:
- Early 2007: 71 complete
- Early 2008: 117 complete
- Early 2009: 149 complete
- Early 2010: 179 complete
- Early 2011: 225 complete
- Early 2011: 241 complete
- Early 2013: 247 complete
The timeline also covers Heathrow T5 (empty running starts this month, opens in March), the upgrade of the ex-Silverlink stations (completed end 2011), and some depot upgrades.
2 comments:
I think that parts of it could be out-of-date now, given the demise of Metronet mk1 and consequential likely repackaging (and slimming-down) of refurbishment contracts by TfL or whoever takes them over.
THC
I'm confused about why they are doing work at North Greenwich station. It was only opened a little over 8 years ago - you'd expect that they'd have designed the station cope with any additional capacity.
Slightly related, I can't work out why there's so much escalator refurbishment at the Jubilee line escalators at Waterloo. Again I assume they are only a little over 8 years old, but two different ones have been closed over the last 6 months!
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