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The final part of the East London line station progress focusses on the temporary northern terminus, Dalston Junction. In 2011, this will be further extended towards Canonbury and terminate at Highbury & Islington. I thought this might have been a tricky station to get since I haven’t seen any photos on the Internet showing any signs of progress, but I did get some! Here is what is happening…
1. A view from a road bridge of Richmond Road. The tracks appear to separate as the trains enter Dalston Junction station. The bridge in the distance is Forest Road.
2. Not near the station yet, but here is what is happening at Forest Road, the road is closed but pedestrians can still walk across.
3. A view of Dalston Junction station in the distance from Roseberry Place. The road is closed at the moment.
4. Very messy but almost complete, here is the station entrance to Dalston Junction from Kingsland Road.
5. And here is the other entrance to Dalston Junction station from Dalston Lane.
6. You can clearly see the new signage from this view. The interior works seems to be more or less complete.
7. Notice how long the corridor is? This links the Dalston Lane and Kingsland Road entrances to the station ticket hall which is located to the left.
8. Here is the entire building in the distance from the other end of Roseberry Place.
9. And to the right is the station entrance at Dalston Lane.
And that is it! It is looking very likely that the East London line section between Dalston Junction and New Cross will be ready by April. We will be keeping an eye on the progress of these works, more in future blogs!
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Continuing the series of East London line station progress blogs, it’s time to move onto the next station north, Haggerston. Unlike Hoxton, I had much better luck with this station. In fact, there is plenty you can already see at the station. Most of the work has been completed and a good view from the park helped a lot. The station is in a beige colour which is different from the rest of the new stations on this section of the line. Anyway, check out the gallery…
1. The view of the beige building on the northbound side. The station is located on Lee Street.
2. This is the station entrance of Haggerston station
3. Within the closed gates, you can clearly see the ticket hall and all the new Overground signage. It appears to be finished!
4. A view from the park, you can see the viaduct the station really well from this view. The sheltered section of the station can be seen here
5. Once again, it looks similar to Hoxton and the Overground roundels have been mounted here too
6. Here is a good view of the full length of Haggerston station looking southbound
7. This is an emergency exit from Haggerston station located on Haggerston Road although a very long way!
You will have noticed that the last three stations have been on high viaducts along the route. Many of the roads have bridges which made it easy and free for me to enter one road and exit the next! The next station however is below ground…and that is Dalston Junction station which is the final blog in this series.
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The next blog in this series of East London line stations goes up north to Hoxton station. Just to let you know, that getting shots of this station wasn’t very easy. The station is located on Geffrye Street next door to the Geffrye Museum. I couldn’t get close enough, so here are the best photos I managed to take…
1. This is an emergency exit from the northbound platform at Hoxton station – it is quite a way to go for an emergency exit!
2. A view from Geffyre Street. The station is on a very high viaduct. Notice that the Overground roundel signs have already been placed.
3. Another view with the station entrance in the distance.
4. This is why I couldn’t get close enough to the station entrance at Hoxton – these work barriers!
5. Here is the southbound platform on the viaduct from Dunloe Street.
6. A better view on the other side
7. And finally, this is the emergency exit from the southbound platform at Hoxton station.
Maybe in the next few weeks, Geffrye Street will reopen allowing me to take a close up of the station entrance, but at least good progress has been made nevertheless!
The next blog in this series will look at Haggerston station!
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A few weeks ago, I had a look at some of the East London line stations in the south (Shadwell, Canada Water, Rotherhithe, Wapping and Surrey Quays). But what about the other end of the line in the north? Well, I decided to take a personal tour of these new stations to the East London line.
Interestingly, I ended up walking quite a lengthy section of the Kingsland Road from Shoreditch to Dalston (my original plan was to hop on and off a bus, but as I discovered, I wouldn’t have known where to stop off as I had to guess where the stations were located!).
Because I have taken a few photos myself, I have divided blogs by station going north as a single blog entry would be far too long!
To start off, here is the station work progress at Shoreditch High Street. During this time, Class 378 trains had been passing the line for testing purposes. Interesting seeing and hearing these trains during my travels. Here is a gallery…
1. The impressive railway bridge that crosses Shoreditch High Street.
2. Here is the impressive covered station at Shoreditch High Street
3. The old viaducts that used to go towards the once existing Broad Street main line station
4. The first look at the station, unfortunately I cannot get much further to the entrance as it is boarded up
5. The interesting concrete design that makes up the station site
6. Another look at one of the entrances to the station just located behind an old viaduct
7. What’s this? Presumably the other entrance to the station
8. A capture of the class 378 train on trail crossing the bridge
It appears the station works look more or less complete. But looking very good! The next blog in this series will be Hoxton!
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The East London line station progress works are happening thick and fast and it seems to be on target for a spring opening (rather than the summer). It is recently that there has been more progress at Shadwell station. Here are a few update photos I took today…
1. Shadwell station south entrance. The station now sports the lettering that reads the station name.
2. Another view slightly back
3. Here is close up of the poster announcing a spring opening and just through the glass is the station ticket hall.
4. And the all new northern entrance looking really neat! They even resurfaced the road and all barriers removed.
I’ll be putting more station progress blogs over the course of the next two days.
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It’s been relatively quiet since the announcement of Apple’s new technology device, the iPad which was presented on 27 January 2010. The one thing that has been yet to be announced is the pricing in the UK.
But according to a technology website, it may have well been leaked. The prices that have apparently been leaked are as follows:
16Gb with Wi-Fi: £389
32Gb with Wi-Fi: £439
64Gb with Wi-Fi: £489
However, there are no leaked announced prices for the iPad with built in 3G+Wi-Fi.
According to Apple’s website, the iPad with Wi-Fi is due out in late March and the 3G model in April. No announcement of pricing has been confirmed yet, but we’ll keep you up to date on the developments. Interesting they say ‘A magical and revolutionary product at an unbelievable price’ without us knowing the price!
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Starting from Monday 1 March until Friday 5 March, London Underground are closing Aldgate station. What are they doing? Well, in summary, major engineering works are taking place during this period in preparation for the new S stock trains which will run on the Metropolitan line from this year.
As well as these works, Baker Street station is currently getting improvement works including a platform extension.
As a result of the closure, Metropolitan line trains are terminating at Moorgate which means there will be no service between Moorgate and Aldgate. The Circle line which also serves Aldgate will not be stopping at the station during the closure.
Customers have been advised to get off at Aldgate East on the Hammersmith & City and District lines and walk to Aldgate at street level (in fact, Aldgate East is only a 2 minute walk away).
In fact according to the weekend closures, Aldgate station will be closed much earlier than the published date starting from 27 February when the Metropolitan line will be closed between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Aldgate on Saturday (27 February) and between Moorgate and Aldgate on Sunday (28 February).
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25 February 2010 in
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This is news we have been all waiting for! Yesterday (23 February), the very first three-car DLR train between Bank and Lewisham ran in service. Three car trains mean an increased capacity of 50%.
This was a two and a half year project that cost £325 million to ensure that several stations got platform extensions to accommodate the extended trains.
Mayor Boris Johnson spoke to The Docklands newspaper about the new extended trains:
It’s the perfect example of the Olympic legacy already delivering real improvements for Londoners.
This £325 million boost is not only integral to preparations for ferrying spectators to the 2012 games, but it will also benefit the many thousands of people who use this popular and handy railway.
The Bank to Lewisham route is one of the busiest on the DLR and will, for now, be the only route to run three car trains. Currently, the Canning Town to Beckton route is receiving platform extensions and is due to be completed in early 2011. But three car extensions will only happen when demand is high.
A total of 55 new carriages have been added to the current DLR fleet at a cost of £100 million.
Have you been on the extended DLR train? What do you think of the increased capacity? Let me know!
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In relation to yesterday’s blog, I thought it would be good to see what exactly they have done at Baker Street. Currently platform 1 is out of use and the reason for this is because it requires platform extension. The other platforms are long enough to allow the 8 car S stock to roll into the platforms, but out of all the four platforms, platform 1 is the shortest and can just about fit an 8 car A stock train into its platform.
The works has involved actually extending the platform northwards as there is a solid wall and a buffer at the end of the platform southwards with no room to move the tracks back. Here is a small gallery of the works…
1. The extended platform 1, notice the lights in the distance. Also note that the platform has been extended for just platform 1 as it is narrow.
2. This is the other end of the platform inside the station. They have knock part of the wall down, why?
3. The buffer at the end of platform 1 with no room to push it back because of a solid wall at the end of the line
4. And here is a view of the full length of platform 1 from the south
The platform works are due to be completed by 28 February. This is the first of many projects in preparation for the new S stock that will arrive to the Metropolitan line this year.
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Work seems to be going well at Baker Street. There is currently some platform works taking place (more on a future blog). As the poster below states, the weekday services remain such that Uxbridge services are reduced during peak hours and off peak services to Amersham start at Wembley Park.
Currently platform 1 is closed at Baker Street meaning that only three platforms are in use. The previously advertised southbound services to Aldgate not stopping at Baker Street was cancelled allowing trains to serve the station. All this is in preparation for the new S stock which will be rolled out this year to the Metropolitan line replacing the current A stock.
The platform works according to the poster should be complete by 28 February in which all four platforms at Baker Street will have reopened and normal services will apply once again.
There will be further works taking place on the Metropolitan line in the next few weeks and months. As soon as I know more, I will let you all know!
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