With the opening of Mitcham Eastfields allegedly only a month away, it's time for another visit.
Here's an overview of the site, looking south:
The station building and the northbound platform:
The liftshafts, footbridge columns, and the very end of the southbound platform:
(NB This blog does not endorse the commandeering of handy nearby tall buildings for photography purposes. Unless, of course, there's no one about)So since three weeks ago they've put up equipment rooms for the lifts as well as pillars for the footbridge to stand on - but still no bridge. The station building has gained eaves and the canopies on both platforms look finished but unpainted, and the platform edging looks complete. The empty end of the building is where the ticket office, toilets and so on will be. Either it's all going to arrive in one piece on the back of a lorry, or they have a lot of work to do.
Whatever date the current 'Rail' went to press, they were reporting that NR had '16 days' more work to do to complete the station!
ReplyDeleteThey consider this is the first of the current generation of modular station, because Greenhithe was a rebuild on an existing site.
MS