Excellent Tiling At Moorgate Station
These pictures show the renewed tiling on the Northern Line platforms and tunnels at Moorgate station, as the station gets ready for Crossrail.
My only thought is that compared to some London Underground tiling, is that it is rather unadventurous.
Google Grabs The Best Site In London For Its Massive Groundscraper
This Google Map the site where the massive groundscraper is being built.
Note.
- Kings Cross station, which is on the right of the map, has extensive connections to the North-East of England and Scotland.
- St. Pancras station, which is on the left of the map, has extensive connections to the Midlands and Belgium, France and the Netherlands, with more services to come including Germany, Switzerland and Western France.
- Thameslink runs North-South beneath St. Pancras station, has extensive connections to Bedfordshire, Herfordshire, Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
- There are also six Underground Lines.
- Gatwick and Luton Airports have direct connections and City, Heathrow and Southend Airports only need a step-free change.
- Improvements in the next few years could mean that HS2 and all of London’s five airports will have a fast direct connection to the area.
In the middle of all these railway lines, sits Google’s groundscraper, which shows as a white structure towards the top of the map.
These pictures show the area between the two stations, the under-construction groundscraper and the new blocks.
And these pictures show the progress on the site.
There is not much that is visible yet!
More Pictures!
But the building will be more visible soon! For those who can’t wait, this article from the Daily Mail has a lot of visualisations.
The New Bridge At Tottenham Hale Station – 22nd October 2018
The new footbridge at Tottenham Hale station is being constructed.
It looks like the station should be finished by the middle of next year.
How To Build A Station In Nine Months
This document on the Network Rail web site is entitled Highlights Of The Great North Rail Project.
There is this section which is entitled We Build A Railway Station In Just Nine Months.
It’s about the building of Maghull North station.
This is said.
Network Rail undertook the scheme on behalf of Merseytravel, appointing contractor Buckingham Group.
How did we deliver the station so quickly and carry out most of the works while keeping the railway line open? A head start, line access and a tight summer deadline.
Robert Grey, a project manager of infrastructure projects at Network Rail, said: “Nine months is quite short for a station… The restricting factor is the access. We had quite a bit of flexibility there. We had access for long weekends and a 12-day possession of the line after Christmas… Without those we’d still be there now.”
I also put it down to the Liverpudlian attitude, which in my experience seems to accept disruption to their lives without complaining too much and then joke about it, when it’s all over.
I was in Liverpool during the bus strike of 1968. where Liverpudlians just walked.
Some of this attitude would be of great help in sorting the problem of the Steventon Bridge in Oxfordshire. I wrote about this bridge at the end of The Stone Arch Railway Bridges Of Scotland.
Crossrail-Spoil Wetland Provides Haven For Wildlife
The title of this post is the same as that of this article on the BBC.
This is the first two paragraphs.
A £70m project to create a wetland twice the size of the City of London is nearly finished with wildlife thriving in new lagoons, marsh and fields.
New wetland on Wallasea Island, off the Essex coast, was created from tunnel spoil from London’s Crossrail project.
Wallasea Island shows that large construction projects don’t have to be all about steel and concrete.
Steelworm At Whitechapel Station
I took this picture at Whitechapel station.
It looks like steel’s equivalent of woodworm has been at work!
Progress On The Northern Line Extension Shafts
This article on IanVisits is entitled London Railway Upgrades – A Progress Report.
This is said about the Northern Line Extension.
The enclosure over the Kennington Green shaft, which protected nearby residents from noise, dust and light pollution from the tunnelling works has been removed, enabling construction of the new headhouse and subway.
This Google Map shows the location of the two shafts at Kennington Green and Kennington Park.
Note the two barn-like green buildings, one of which is labelled Kennington Green.
These pictures, which were taken today, show the site of Kennington Green shaft.
And these show the site of the Kennington Park shaft.
Note.
- The Kennington Green site appears to be nearer to completion, than the Kennington Park site.
- They are asking the public to vote on the options for the brick cladding for the headhouse.
It would appear that the headhouse at Kennington Park will be incorporated in a public building.
Oostende Station – 16th May 2018
I caught the train back to Brussels from the building site that is Oostende station.
I’v been to various stations in the last ten years or so, that are being rebuilt, including Berlin Hbf, Liverpool Lime Street. London Bridge and Stuttgart Hbf.
But not gave out the air that was shown at Oostende station.
- Information was non-existent.
- Floors were uneven and a hazard.
- Safety seemed a bit random.
- The toilets were tucked away from the station and run by a drogon, who demanded fees for something that looked very dubious.
It very much gave the impression that passengers were not very important.
Is this the best that Belgian Railways can do?
Hackney Wick Station – 12th May 2018
The builders now seem to be on the home straight at Hackney Wick station.
The fitting out is well underway on the platforms and it appears that the ground level works are progressing.
Because of today’s weather, I didn’t really want to have a look at ground level.
Building A Station Without Closing The Railway Line
After the initial closure at Easter 2017, to install the subway, which I wrote about in A Tough Way To Spend Easter, I’m pretty certain, there has not been a major closure of the line and work to build the station has continued, whilst trains have continued to run on the railway and stop at the platforms for passengers.
I suspect that project managers have learned a lot from this project.
Photos From The Disused Tunnels Now Helping The Bank Tube Station Upgrade
The title of this post is the same as that of this informing article on Ian Visits.
The title probably, says it all and Ian describes how London always seem to have a spare tunnel, where it is needed.
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