Transport for London news – Page 17
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NewsCross-city expansion gets underway
LONDON: Network Rail has begun work on the long-planned upgrade of the Thameslink cross-city route, where tendering is now in hand for major works due to commence in January. Under a two-stage programme costing a total of £5·5bn, platforms will be lengthened to accommodate 12-car trains operating at a frequency ...
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NewsLondon Crossrail gets the go-ahead
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown gave the go-ahead for London's long-awaited Crossrail project on October 5, with details of the funding package announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling four days later. The total cost was put at up to £16bn, allowing for inflation during construction and inclusive of land, ...
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MTR Laing wins London Overground
MAYOR of London Ken Livingstone announced on June 19 that 50:50 joint venture MTR Laing had been selected to operate a 107 km network of inner suburban lines under a contract to be signed on July 2. The contract will last for seven years from November 11 2007, with an ...
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NewsCross-London projects languish on the back burner
WHILE the East London Line is finally being rebuilt to provide rapid and frequent services along a corridor linking London's northern and southern suburbs, two major projects to make it simple for rail passengers to travel across London have made spectacularly little progress over the last 15 years. The Thameslink ...
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Extension takes East London Line from Underground to Overground
Due for completion in June 2010, Phase 1 of the East London Line extension programme will see one of London Underground's shortest routes become part of a new orbital link connecting the main line network north and south of the Thames
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Overground shortlist
TRANSPORT for London announced on December 15 that it had shortlisted two consortia to submit ’best and final offers’ for the contract to operate London Overground services on the North and East London lines.Four groups were invited to tender in June. Govia and MTR Laing have been chosen to go ...
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Jubilee and Northern lines lead LU signalling renewal
This year Tube Lines starts the installation of Seltrac transmission-based train control on London Underground's Jubilee Line. Roger Ford reports from the Highgate test centre on progress with the complex programme
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A rail vision for the capital
Forecasting that peak demand on the UK capital’s commuter railways is set to grow by 30% over the next 20 years, Transport for London’s Managing Director, London Rail, Ian Brown explained to Robert Preston how a package of major projects, upgrades and smaller schemes should deliver the extra capacity
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NewsCrossrail bill introduced
A BILL to authorise construction of the east-west Crossrail Line 1 under central London was introduced to Parliament on February 22. Unlike an earlier private bill that failed in May 1994, the new hybrid bill is backed by the government. Transport Secretary Alistair Darling told MPs 'the case for ...
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Alcatel wins Tube Lines resignalling
LONDON Underground infrastructure concessionaire Tube Lines announced on October 2 that it had awarded a £300m contract to Alcatel for resignalling of the Jubilee and Northern lines. Installation of SelTrac S40 communications-based train control is expected to increase ’capability’ by 22% on the Jubilee line by 2009 and 18% on ...
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Team to review Crossrail again
THE CASE for building London's long-planned east-west Crossrail Line 1 is to be reviewed by a team of experts appointed by Transport Secretary Alistair Darling. The team, headed by Network Rail Deputy Chairman Adrian Montague, will report 'around the turn of the year', he said on September 9. They will ...
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Trams to serve central London
PLANS to build two new light rail lines in the British capital were announced by Mayor of London Ken Livingstone on May 29. Following public consultation and discussions with local authorities, he approved two light rail routes and two busways. ’People have been talking about these schemes for seven years’, ...
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PPP bidders prepare for handover
INTRO: As the long and often controversial process to set up the Public-Private Partnership nears completion, Metronet and Tube Lines are preparing to take over train and infrastructure maintenance on the London Underground network by the end of this month. Each consortium is planning a package of track renewals, resignalling ...
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Crossrail rides again
THE CROSSRAIL project to build a regional metro under central London was officially launched on January 17 by Sir Christopher Benson, Chairman of Cross London Rail Links Ltd. A joint venture of the Strategic Rail Authority and Transport for London, the company has been allocated £154m of government funding for ...
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Cross-London links back on the agenda
BRITAIN’s Strategic Rail Authority and Transport for London have signed an accord to develop two more cross-London rail links. Transport Minister Lord Macdonald said on May 3 that £150m from the government’s 10-year transport plan has been allocated for ’project definition and design development work’. Both arise from the London ...
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Ads move underground
MOVING advertising images are to be projected onto the walls of London Underground stations, following the signing of a contract on April 6. Cross Track Projection (XTP) digital projection equipment will be installed in some central stations this autumn, and across the network within five years.XTP makes it possible ...
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High-speed flywheels cut energy bill
Chris Jackson reports on trials of a lightweight flywheel energy storage unit being conducted on London Underground's Piccadilly line
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Trams return to Croydon
UK: Months of frustration turned to celebrations on May 5 when the first 11 km section of Croydon Tramlink opened between the town centre loop and New Addington. Tramtrack Croydon Ltd’s Chairman Bob Dorey said it was an ‘important day’ when TCL ‘brought trams back to London’, 49 years after ...
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NewsLondon's PPP promises fresh thinking on asset management
London Underground has embarked upon a course of radical change that will see infrastructure and rolling stock managed, maintained and upgraded by the private sector under three contracts each lasting up to 30 years. Robert Preston reports on the drive to secure long-term funding through the Public-Private Partnership
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Cross-London plans delay Underground sell-off
UK: A proposal to join up suburban services east and west of London through existing metro tunnels, which has been put forward by Railtrack, owner of Britain’s national rail network, has caused the process of privatising London Underground’s physical assets to be put on hold for several weeks. In March ...