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Delivering Thameslink Major Project Report DELIVERING THAMESLINK MAJOR PROJECT UNDER CONSTRUCTION REPORT THE £5.5BN SCHEME IS UNDERWAY. THE ROUTE, THE MAJOR STATIONS AND 09|2010 THE BENEFITS EXPLAINED Delivering Thameslink Routes Capital work to the North via St Pancras: Bedford, Cambridge, King’s Lynn, Luton Airport Parkway brings national and Peterborough Farringdon Rd connections Farringdon 1 Station Overview Smithfields Market by Jackie Whitelaw 1 FARRINGDON Charterhouse St W Smithfield Farringdon is set to be a new transport hub once Crossrail is built and the Thameslink By the summer of 2012, Farringdon Rd improvements bring more before the Olympic Games, passengers to this strategic station on the edge of the City. London will have a new Platforms are be ing extended landmark. Stretching across within an existing rail cutting littered with obstacles, the Thames will be the including historic brick arches glass canopy of the new and the old River Fleet. A new Blackfriars station, ticket hall will be shared with Fleet St Crossrail, and existing Grade providing for the first time a II-listed buildings refurbished. graphic: © www.paulweston.info graphic: national rail station that Section Subterranean links the river’s north and south banks. “We are working extremely The new station forms a key part of the hard on innovative design at London Bridge to avoid Millennium Thameslink Programme, the Blackfriars Foot Bridge government funded £5.5bn upgrade cost and disruption” Station of one of the rail network’s busiest Simon Kirby, Network Rail routes. Rolling stock and, crucially, this programme is improving the frequency Blackfriars 2 and capacity of services running Road Bridge River T hames north-south through the heart of the That’s thanks to the station’s future Blackfriars capital from Bedford to Brighton. role as the crossover point with Rail Bridge Southwark It is one of the most important civil Crossrail, with work already underway Bridge engineering projects in the country and to accommodate the station and South Bank for Network Rail it is very much a tunnelling needs of the new east-west flagship project, a scheme that will route across the capital. have a massive impact on the capacity But it is London Bridge that is the Blackfriars Rd Tate Modern and flexibility of the rail network. lynchpin. This is where the pieces of the 2 BLACKFRIARS The Thameslink Programme is being puzzle come together, where the delivered in stages. Currently platforms biggest bottlenecks need to be The first station to span the along the northern part of the route unlocked and where the potential for Thames will be housed within an Southwark Street are being lengthened to cater for trains growth is absolutely enormous. iconic glass structure that is set Southwark Bridge Rd increasing from 8-car to 12-car. Over 42M people use the station to become a new London Blackfriars station is not only being that sits on a viaduct every year. And landmark. A 120-year-old bridge lengthened – out over the river – it’s Southern, Southeastern and is being widened on both sides to enable new dedicated also being cleverly widened to cope Thameslink operator First Capital Thameslink tracks to be installed Union Street with the extra passengers expected. Connect are all competing to squeeze and platforms built to Farringdon – where the Thameslink their services onto the limited number accommodate 12-car trains. and London Underground platforms sit of tracks. So busy is the station, in fact, For the first time there will be side by side – is being turned into what that at peak times Thameslink services station entrances on both sides will be one of the capital’s most have to be diverted around it. of the river. important interchanges. Network Rail’s dramatic plans for 2 NCE in association with Network Rail 9 | 2010 THAMESLINK SERVICES FUTURE LONDON CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS Current Possible future routes Peterborough King’s Cross St. Pancras Cambridge Bedford Farringdon Landmark: Blackfriars station will be the first station to span the Thames Luton Airport City Parkway Thameslink Hatfield Cricklewood Finsbury Park Blackfriars King’s Cross Farringdon Blackfriars London Bridge Lewisham London Bridge Norwood Jn Bromley South Wimbledon Swanley E Croydon Sevenoaks Gatwick Ashford Elephant Tonbridge & Castle Guilford Horsham East Grinstead Brighton Glamorous: The new Borough High Street bridge is an eyecatching design 3 BOROUGH 4 LONDON BRIDGE London Bridge promise to make life Thameslink – it accounts for a VIADUCT better for passengers and locals alike significant part of the budget set aside Work is set to begin in 2012 to – creating dedicated through tracks for for London Bridge – thereby disrupting A 300m long viaduct is being increase capacity at London Thameslink trains, providing more services only once but getting double threaded through a maze of Bridge station – the main space with reprofiled platforms and the benefit. existing buildings in one of bottleneck on the entire with a brand new concourse integrated “It’s vital of course, particularly in London’s most historic areas, Thameslink route. The station with the beautiful new ‘Shard of Glass’ the current climate, that we deliver on in order to double track capacity will be completely rebuilt with skyscraper currently being constructed value for money for the last phase of on the line out of London new track layouts to allow more right beside the current station. the Thameslink programme,” Kirby Bridge. The new structure trains to pass right through the The new station will relieve pressure says. “We are working extremely hard straddles the busy Borough station rather than terminating Market, and includes a 70m there. The new station will on the London Underground network on innovative design at London Bridge trapezoidal girder bridge over a benefit not just Thameslink too, in particular the Northern Line, as to avoid cost and disruption.” major arterial road that users, but all passengers. Thameslink services expand in Benefits of Thameslink will not be ark will be slid into position in 2011. numbers, and to new destinations confined to the central and south Bridge both north and south of the capital. All eastern part of the rail network. New of this providing a huge boost to the rolling stock for the 12 car/up to 24 Cannon Street London economy in London and far beyond – trains per hour (in each direction) Rail Bridge Bridge and it’s the economic case that’s the service will free up other modern trains King William St key: “The issue from the economic that can be re-used around the point of view is that Thameslink doesn’t country. deliver its business case without the The investment at London Bridge increased frequency of trains delivered falls into the next stage of funding for by the work at London Bridge,” explains the project after 2012 – known as Key Tooley Street Network Rail investment projects Output2 (KO2). director Simon Kirby. Network Rail is keen to stress the 3 Added to this, the signalling at importance of KO2. Kirby states: “We London London Bridge will be life expired by believe that continuing with KO2 Borough Borough High St 4 Bridge Viaduct Station 2021 and will need to be replaced. should remain a priority for investment That would be no easy task and would even in the current economic climate involve picking apart the station in the since this delivers considerable benefit next few years to bring equipment up for both rail users and for the economy. to the South: to modern regulations by that date. While we recognise that difficult Ashford, Brighton, Network Rail has opted to include choices will need to be made, the and Hastings the re-signalling in the next stage of importance of this sort of investment NCE in association with Network Rail 3 Delivering Thameslink 9 | 2010 has recently been reinforced in comments from the wider business community.” Those comments include statements from influential business lobby London First, which has stated: “To maintain London’s economic growth and competitiveness, it is vital that … Network Rail’s investment programmes are maintained.” This, they said, included very definitely, Thameslink. And in June new Transport Secretary Phillip Hammond agreed. “Crossrail and Thameslink can be growth generators, not only for London, but for the South East and the whole of the UK,” he said. First Capital Connect – the company that operates the Thameslink trains – is very clear about the benefits the upgraded route will bring. Its project director David Statham explains: “At the moment we can’t stop at London Bridge during the peak hour and a half because of congestion on the Time savers: Up to 24 trains an hour will depart from London’s redeveloped Blackfriars Station lines and at the station. By the time the London Bridge part of the project is Thameslink: Background Thameslink: Key Outputs finished there will be 18 Thameslink trains an hour stopping at the station, Thameslink is one of the busiest and a second branch serving the Key Output 0: Fifteen, eight-car the vast majority 12-car. It’s going to be a rail routes in the UK and currently Wimbledon loop. trains an hour through the core huge relief for the Northern Line.” carries 90M passengers a year. There are 50 stations on the central section from St Pancras to For customers there will be obvious 225km long route, which provides Blackfriars. Works include the closure advantages. “When work at Blackfriars The £5.5bn investment plan to a north-south link through central of Blackfriars station bay platforms is finished we can offer an extra 2,000 increase capacity and frequency of London and connects some of and the closure of the Moorgate seats on our trains on a service that services has been underway since the country’s busiest transport branch.
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