Reflected In The New Pudding Mill Lane Station
I took these pictures today of passing trains reflected in the new Pudding Mill Lane station.
It’s only a few months off being finished.
I had to laugh as a London guide was telling his charges it is the new Crossrail station.
Pudding Mill Lane Station – 20th August 2013
This set of pictures shows how fast Crossrail and the new Pudding Mill Lane station are progressing, when it is compared with pictures of just over a month ago.
The two tunnelling machines; Jessica and Ellie are soon to be on their way, or might have even left yet on their journey to Stepney Green.
The new station is looking like it will be one of the grandest on the Docklands Light Railway. According to this piece in Wikipedia, it will be completed this year.
As it will be one of the major stations for the Olympic Park and probably the closest to the stadium, I think we’ll start to see pressure to change the name or at least add a tag to Pudding Mill Lane like for West Ham United Stadium. After all there is a precedent at Gillespie Road station.
Pudding Mill Lane Station – 17th July 2013
From Stratford I moved on to the area around Pudding Mill Lane station to see progress on both the new station and Crossrail.
The pictures show that things are moving on quite well.
Note.
1. According to this entry in Wikipedia, the new station should be finished in 2013.
2. The current station will have to be demolished to allow work to proceed on Crossrail.
3. There is no sign of the tunnelling machines at Pudding Mill Lane, which will drive from there to Stepney Green.
Pudding Mill Lane Station – 6th May 2013
I passed through Pudding Mill Lane station on the DLR this morning and the new station is progressing.
Note that you can now see the lift towers.
Marshgate Lane Revealed
This is the first time, I’ve been on Pudding Mill Lane station and could get a reasonably clear view of where Marshgate Lane goes under the Greenway and the Northern Outfall Sewer into the Olympic Park.
Marsh Gate Lane Revealed
As I said here, it was a complicated and expensive job. Also,because of European Union rules, it had to be open to all EU companies. It was a fixed price contract and it was won by the Germans. Rumours abound that Marshgate Lane lived up to its name and they didn’t make the profit they expected.
Pudding Mill Lane Station – 18th September 2012
I went to Pudding Mill Lane DLR station to see how things were progressing with CrossRail and the construction of the new station.
A senior person in the DLR told me, that it will be two years before the new station is fully open. But then it will be a double-track line all the way past the station on the way to Bow Church station.
Pudding Mill Lane Station – 4th May 2012
Pudding Mill Lane station on the DLR is unique in that the platforms can’t take full length trains and the track is only single on the Canary Wharf side of the station. This picture shows the new station being constructed.
The New Pudding Mill Lane DLR Station
Completion date is given as 2013. Towards Stratford, the viaduct that will carry the track is now visible.
The New Viaduct at Pudding Mill Lane DLR Station
The station will be a great improvement on the one it replaces.
Crossrail and Pudding Mill Lane
Crossrail is also getting in on the act, just to the south-west of the Olympic site. It will emerge by the Pudding Mill Lane station on the DLR. These are some pictures I took yesterday.
Unfortunately, the angles from the station doesn’t allow any decent pictures of the construction of the Crossrail portal to be taken.
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