Sunday 18 May 2008

Shepherd's Bush Overground: wall moving

3 weeks into the work at Shepherd's Bush to move that wall and they've started repositioning the wall segments in what looks like their final position:
They can't be much more than a few feet further back, but it looks like it doubles the available space behind the yellow line.

Meanwhile they've demolished the top half of the wall by the station building (see last week), and dug a big hole behind the bottom half:
Still that post supporting the footbridge to be dealt with.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wonder if they will relocate the lamp standards so that they are against the wall? Looking at existing narrow platforms elsewhere recently, there seems no real attempt to keep posts of any type (such as stop markers, running in boards, LT roundels, signal telephones) as far back as possible, makes you think about the problems the blind and partially sighted must have...

Anonymous said...

0/10 for site security - look at that grafitti!

You'd think the contractors could afford an old boy in a portacabin on minimum wage with a plentiful supply of cocoa to keep an eye on the place outside working hours.

Good job they weren't up to anything more sinister on London's transport system. Then again, the CTRL works at Maiden Lane seem similarly insecure.

Anonymous said...

Perhaps it's graffiti from before the cladding when on originally?

There'll probably be another long delay now while they bring in an archaeologist to make sure...