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.

Look ma, Crossrail 2

I was looking at the plans for the Victoria Transport Interchange* development, when I found this diagram showing where the platforms for the Chelsea-Hackney Line will be (the grey bits on the left), with interchange passageways shown and everything!

The southbound platform will be directly under Buckingham Palace Road, the northbound platform a bit off to the west, and there'll be a new entrance on the north side of Bressenden Place (a long way from Victoria station, but handy for Buckingham Palace), and an interchange passageway across to the District Line ticket hall, and another to the Victoria Line platforms.

Sadly, it's all fictional:

No detailed plans yet exist for this scheme but the Victoria Transport Interchange proposals incorporate a safeguarding zone anticipating the station being located below Buckingham Palace Road.

And the redevelopment scheme itself is looking shaky.

If you still want to take a look, the diagram is on page 18 of this 108 MB PDF, and pops up again on page 50, and there are some cross sections at the back.

(* Ignore the name - it's actually just office blocks in the area north of the station, its major effect on transport being "removal of the bus station from in front of the station and dispersal of the bus stops to the surrounding streets")

TfL October board meeting notes

Transport for London held a board meeting on Wednesday, and today they published the stack of documents (5 MB PDF) produced for it. A skim through the 286 pages reveals:

Oyster

• On October 7, TfL began replacing the now-redundant push-button Few Fare Machines with Advanced Fare Machines, which do Oyster, but don't do change. 100 are planned by January, and the full 350 by April.
• TfL's rollout of Oyster to Overground faced problems at Clapham Junction, because South West Trains are meant to be selling ITSO rather than Oyster cards. TfL ticket machines will be installed at each entrance.
• Barclaycard expect to issue 75,000 OnePulse Oyster cards by the end of the year.
• Cash fares are down to 3.5% of tube journeys and 2.3% of bus journeys.
• All the train companies have finally signed an agreement for Oyster PAYG use, which includes details of how fares money will be distributed. The Financial Services Authority have confirmed the scheme doesn't fall under e-money regulations.
• It's stated "C2C, ‘one’ and First Capital Connect" will be expanding PAYG from this January, but I think they mean Chiltern rather than FCC (see this blog's sidebar).

London Overground

• The upgrade plans for the North London Line are due to be agreed with Network Rail this month, for delivery in 2010-11. This presumably includes resignalling, 3 and 4 tracking in places and platform extensions for 4 car trains. The associated improvement in service is called "SLC2k" and is due in January 2011.
• The superstructure design for the "bridge at Liverpool Street" has been approved. I'm not sure if refers to the one over the Liverpool Street tracks by Brick Lane, or the one nearer Liverpool Street station over Shoreditch High Street.
• The 3 extra Overground trains ordered in July are said to be dual voltage and intended for the North London Line, rather than for the East London Line as stated at the time. I'm not sure which is correct.
• Stations on the Gospel Oak to Barking line will get shelters by March 2008, and initial repairs at all Overground stations will be completed by May. The full upgrade programme will run until November 2011, however.

Tube, DLR, Rail and Trams

• Approval has been given to apply for the Victoria and Archway station upgrade Transport & Works orders.
• Automatic Train Operation on the Jubilee Line is due by the end of 2009, and on the Northern by the end of 2011.
• The first new Victoria Line train is due in service by January 2009.
• Southfields, Baker Street (SSL only) and Green Park will be made step-free in time for the Olympics.
• The DLR City Airport extension is carrying 48% of the airport's passengers.
• The first new design DLR car is scheduled to be delivered on 14 December this year, a bit behind schedule. It's already running on a test track in Germany.
• Train and platform lengthening are planned for many London National Rail lines (details are in the minutes).
• TfL has now officially disbanded the West London Tram team, and appear not to be leaving open the possibility of restarting the scheme.
• Funding for the Crystal Palace Tramlink extension appears hazy.

Tfl Board Meeting, 27 June 2007

The minutes from TfL's June 27 board meeting have been published. Of note:

• The Hackney Downs - Hackney Central interchange looks to be going ahead, though the only timescale given is sometime before the Olympics.
• Archway station will be made step-free 2009-2012, with a new passageway leading from the ticket hall to a lift shaft between the platforms.
• There are detailed diagrams of the Victoria station upgrade.
• TfL want to make Ilford, Bromley South, Ealing Broadway, Edmonton
  Green, Dalston Kingsland, West Croydon, Worcester Park, Gospel Oak, Hampstead Heath and Camden Road step-free, with the DfT paying the bill.
• The number of Oyster outlets will soon increase from 2,200 to 4,000.
• Oyster fares for London Overground are still being worked out, and there may be discounts initially.
• The East London Line extension, DLR upgrades, Stratford station upgrade and so on are all on schedule.

Victoria tube station upgrade

TfL have released some more details of the expansion of Victoria Tube station, especially this hi-res image of the plans. Compared to the previous image, the enlargement of the existing ticket hall at the mainline station end is much more extensive. I'm not sure what's going on with the escalators numbered 12, which the label says run "between South Ticket Hall and street level" but in the diagram appear to go from the ticket hall downwards.