Project Background New Blackfriars Station The iconic new Blackfriars station is the first station to span the Thames. Client It offers passengers longer trains and more frequent services, easier UK Department for Transport connections to the London Underground and step-free access to both Location banks of the Thames. London, UK The station is an integral part of the £7 billion Thameslink railway Start Date through the heart of London. The construction of the new station 2009 presented a number of logistical challenges in re-using a historic bridge,
construction over the River Thames and keeping the railway open for End Date passengers. 2012
Duration 48 months
Contract Value £600m
Services Provided Layout & signalling performance, programme management, signalling, train control & telecoms, station development including architectural conceptual planning, track/permanent way
For more information please visit www.networkrailconsulting.com Scope of Works Key Project Outputs The scope of the project was to The key outputs of the project included: new lifts and escalators give step- construct an iconic new London station free access to all platforms iconic architectural design spanning spanning the Thames as part of the the River Thames over 4,400 photovoltaic panels – wider Thameslink Programme. enough to cover 23 tennis courts more space on trains: longer The goals of the project were – crown the roof and provide up to platforms allowed train lengths to to increase line capacity by 50 per cent of the station’s energy, increase from 8 to 12 carriages accommodating a much higher enough to make almost 80,000 cups frequency of longer trains; improve the more trains per hour: twice the of tea a day experience of passengers by building number of platforms and new the solar cells will reduce the more and bigger platforms; improve track systems mean services have station’s CO2 emissions by an accessibility and interchange with the increased from 8 trains per hour estimated 511 tonnes per year London Underground and to radically to 12 (and will go up to 24 when – equivalent to around 89,000 improve the sustainability of the Thameslink is complete in 2018) average car journeys. station in terms of C02 emissions and an enhanced London Underground consumption if grid energy. While the station was transformed, we station makes it easier for worked hard to minimise disruption so passengers to access the tube that it remains open for the millions of the only station with entrances on people who use it every day. both banks of the Thames brings people closer to landmarks such the Tate Modern and St Paul’s Cathedral
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