Design team: Mott Macdonald / Wilkinson Eyre / Urban Initiatives The diagram below, taken from our post last year, gives an idea of the spread of the new Liverpool Street Crossrail Station. The images below …
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John Bull is the Editor of London Reconnections. A transport journalist and historian, his writing often focuses on the political or strategic challenges facing London's transport network and beyond.
Crossrail Designs: Custom House
Design Team: Arup Atkins, Allies & Morrison Interestingly, Custom House is the only Crossrail Station on the central section that’ll have surface-level platforms.
Continue readingCrossrail Designs: Canary Wharf
Design Team: Canary Wharf Group / Arup / Foster & Partners / Adamsons Associates / Gillespies As the first image (which is one of my favourite of this round of Crossrail images) clearly shows, the …
Continue readingCrossrail Designs: Whitechapel
Design Team: Hyder, BDP One of the major features of the Whitechapel design is the “station bridge” this was visible in our earlier Whitechapel post as well, the images from which I have also included …
Continue readingSWT To Sell Oyster From May 2011
The DfT have announced that they have concluded a deal with SWT that will see the operator sell Oyster services from May 2011. The money to furnish the necessary changes will come from the funds …
Continue readingIn Pictures: East London Line Extension Work
Public attention and debate has largely shifted south these days with regards to construction on the ELL. There, all tenders have now been received for the ELLX2 work, with a decision on who the work …
Continue reading"New Bus For London" Mockup delivered to Acton Depot
Wrightbus’ “New Bus for London” mockup has been delivered to the Tranport Museum’s Acton depot. The model is intended to allow stakeholder feedback to be captured and the design tweaked, with the first working prototype …
Continue readingIn Pictures: The New Viaduct at Borough Market
With details of Thameslink’s fate allegedly due to manifest this week, it seems a good time to take a trip south of the river and take a look at how the work on the viaduct …
Continue readingThe 2011 Fare Tables
This week will bring the TfL Board Meeting, which often leads to a number of interesting documents (and their appendices) becoming available on the TfL website. This month, amongst those appendices, is the letter from …
Continue readingUpdated OSI List
We have updated our version of the current list of valid Out of Station Interchanges (OSI). It is now current, as of October 2010. This can be found here. Thanks to Mike for the spot. …
Continue readingTfL Submit Thames Cable Car Planning Permission Application
TfL have submitted an application for Planning Permission in relation to a cross-Thames Cable Car. The application, which can be found on the Newham Borough Council website, provides some provisional details of the scheme: Erection …
Continue readingIn Pictures: Crossrail At Tottenham Court Road West
With Crossrail having escaped the Spending Review intact, progress continues on the project. This is particularly noticable in the West End, and further details of the work there will now start to come to light, …
Continue readingCroxley Rail Link Resurfaces
All has been (unsurprisingly) quiet on the Croxley front since the then newly appointed Coalition Government first announced its Spending Review. The scheme, which would see the Metropolitan Line extended to Watford Junction via Croxley, …
Continue readingBrown-outs at TfL
Transport firm Go Ahead released a trading statement today in which they confirmed that current CEO Keith Ludeman will retire next July and be replaced by David Brown – TfL’s current Head of Surface Transport. …
Continue readingPeter Hendy’s Statement on the Spending Review
Setting our future direction – Outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review I am writing to brief you on the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), which was announced by the Chancellor in Parliament this …
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