chr1s wrote:
MMl is now in its final location on the west side outside the Barlow Shed.
CTRL (HS1) is in process of final tracking gauging and electrification
check, and signal testing.
STP played host to a Eurostar train for the first time this week, so it
seems like the final months are going by quite nicely.
Kent services as CTRL.
Kent services will not operate until December 2009, by which time the
new fleet of Javelins should be ready. As it stands, the first Javelin
is currently being built in Japan (I think) and will reach UK soil in
August.
Kings Cross GNER/FCC plans submitted to Camden for approval of redesign
of station front and west side, with removal of unauthorised front
structure departure area, proposed completion 2015.
When did they push the date back? I thought they were aiming to finish
Kings Cross months before the Olympics in 2012.
Thameslink 2000, fitting out of new station on westside of St Pancras
underground.
This is generally true, although funding for the fit-out is actually
coming out of the CTRL pot. Thameslink 2000 itself has not received
funding approval yet, although a final decision on this is apparently
due sometime this summer when the HLOS and SoFA are due to be
published. Even then the project will take about 8 years of implement.
Concurrent completion of Northern ticket Hall by September
2007 but like early 2008.
As others have already stated, the NTH won't be available until late 2009.
LUL, phase one and two completed,
Phase 2 is ongoing - see comment above.
the new south ticketing area step free
access to Metropolitan, Circle and H&C lines completed.
As of 8 October 2006 this has been the case with the Western Ticket Hall.
In progress tunnelling and fitting new pedestrian subways to enable
two independent routes of access to all areas - this I am informed
will need to be completed before there is licence to operate CTRL and
Thameslink new station.
Please elaborate further. Speaking of tunneling, alwaystouchout.com
claims that a direct link will be built between the WTH and the new
Thameslink station under St Pancras. If Dave Arquati is reading this,
I'd also like him to confirm if there will be a direct (presumably
ticketless) link, seeing as I've never seen other websites mention this,
or seen any evidence from the WTH itself.
All platforms with the complex to be step free access. I think
there are six new lift installations to be installed for this purpose.
In spite of this, MIPs who interchange between deep-level and
sub-surface lines at KXSP will still have to go through two sets of
gates, unless they risk the escalators and steps between the Tube and
Western Ticket Halls.
The Pentonville access route will be lost and closed for access when the
other work is completed, but an emergency de training facility will be
maintained for both LUL and Thameslink into Pentonville Road direct.
That's a shame - in order for the Pentonville site to serve LUL
passengers as an entrance/exit facility after the closure of KCM, money
is required, and apparently LUL would require such funds from the DfT as
they don't have enough funds for this conversion themselves.