Showing posts with label Covent Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Covent Garden. Show all posts

Monday, 14 January 2008

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
Absent is the Central Line, which is considered already upgraded.

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
Several of these are otherwise unannounced. I'll see what I can dig up.

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
There are 268 since the East London Line closed, of which London Underground manage 248 by my reckoning (or 259 including the recently transferred Silverlink stations).

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.