An agreement for the Beckton branch of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) to get three car services has been signed. Costing £18.2m the deal will see the following seven stations extended;
Royal Victoria
Custom House for Excel
Prince Regent
Beckton Park
Cyprus
Gallions Reach
Beckton
The money is coming form the following sources
£10.8m from the Olympic Delivery Authority
£2m from London Development Agency
£5.4m from the Housing and Communities Agency
The work will mean that by the Olympics, all the DLR services will be three car which will give the DLR trains the same capacity as a Circle Line train, give the network a huge boost to cope with the ever climbing passenger numbers. The first three car trains will be running on the Bank – Lewisham service from early next year.
Showing posts with label 3 Car Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3 Car Project. Show all posts
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Thursday, 1 January 2009
DLR goes advanced. Again!
Deptford Bridge (DLR)
Originally uploaded by MackenzieBlu
Just a note that the newly extended platforms at Deptford Bridge have a new look map. But whats interesting is the interchanges at Stratford and Shadwell. The new maps show Stratford being a place to interchange for the Stratford International line and Shadwell now is shown as a interchange for the Overground. This will be the truth in 18 months time in July 2010.
As for the DLR, its just 9 days until the new station at Woolwich Arsenal opening. Least the DLR managed to bring out good news where as London Overground had to cancel its move from Stratford Low Level to the main station. This could impact the time scale for the DLR's Stratford International line construction but time will tell.
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Deptford Bridge
An image from 12th October of the work at Deptford Bridge on making the eight year old station ready for three car trains come 2010.
Monday, 30 June 2008
Tower Gateway closes
As of last week the orignal city termius of the DLR closed for rebuilding as part of the three car project. I got to go and take some picture of the station before they closed it. ads you can see from this picture there is an island platform with two tracks either side. From next year it will be the other way around with a platofrom either side of a single track. This way there will be a departure and arrivals helping keep passanger flows seperate as this is only a small station.
For more images of the station go here
For more images of the station go here
Monday, 2 June 2008
Stratford International DLR Extension update
Small update here on the new DLR extension. I have some images of work in my flickr, click here to go to the folder.
West Ham -
The paving stones of the platform edge have been removed as have the track going through the station area. The track is still down north and south of the station.
Canning Town -
Paving stones here have been removed along with the track as well. The reversing track south of the station has been removed although it might be something to do with the 3 car project.
West Ham -
The paving stones of the platform edge have been removed as have the track going through the station area. The track is still down north and south of the station.
Canning Town -
Paving stones here have been removed along with the track as well. The reversing track south of the station has been removed although it might be something to do with the 3 car project.
Sunday, 23 March 2008
DLR Closures
Well I have recently come across some closure information for the DLR. Basically theres alot of work being done over the next few years to provide 3 car trains as well as too extensions and some capatity works. In 2007 there were 2 weekend closures, this year there is 24 and a futher 16 in 2009. There is also some major station closures -
Tower Gateway closed June 2008 until Aprill 2009.
Bank closed Christmas 2009- Christmas 2010.
The Tower Gateway closure is more a pain for the DLR users but closing Bank station for an entire year is going to cause chaos. The DLR will lose its major interchange station with the Tube network. I can only hope that the newly rebuilt Gateway station can cope with the extra pressure on it, but the Jubilee will be alot busier as a result.
We should also hear from the DLR over Dagenham Dock extension as the TWA act to start is due to be placed this month. Hopefully I can follow this up soon. Just to remind of the time scale this extension is due to open late 2017.
Stations getting a rebuild include Poplar, Limehouse, West India Quays and South Quays. Tho the latter two are for the 3 car project.
Oh the DLR will be creating its own Platform for Art program.
Tower Gateway closed June 2008 until Aprill 2009.
Bank closed Christmas 2009- Christmas 2010.
The Tower Gateway closure is more a pain for the DLR users but closing Bank station for an entire year is going to cause chaos. The DLR will lose its major interchange station with the Tube network. I can only hope that the newly rebuilt Gateway station can cope with the extra pressure on it, but the Jubilee will be alot busier as a result.
We should also hear from the DLR over Dagenham Dock extension as the TWA act to start is due to be placed this month. Hopefully I can follow this up soon. Just to remind of the time scale this extension is due to open late 2017.
Stations getting a rebuild include Poplar, Limehouse, West India Quays and South Quays. Tho the latter two are for the 3 car project.
Oh the DLR will be creating its own Platform for Art program.
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