Old Red Lion - Kennington
 

There's a pub on Kennington Park Road called The Old Red Lion. A
little to the north of Kennington tube station. Not far, just a train
length or so.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll...03449&t=h&z=18

I drove past it the other day, and next door - a yard - had a large
hoarding round it. Marked "london underground", or similar.

Now kennington tube station is having some work done to it.

But there's no evidence of a link to these hoardings from platform
level. It could be connected to the old passages - before they rebuilt
kennington for the other northern line branch - hidden away one floor
under the lifts, and on the train side of one of the platforms.

Except, the thing is, the platforms at kennington are to the south of
the station, and the station is more or less at the northern end of
them.

So what is the hoarding for?

Old Red Lion - Kennington
 

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lonelytraveller writes

There's a pub on Kennington Park Road called The Old Red Lion. A
little to the north of Kennington tube station. Not far, just a train
length or so.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll...pn=0.00167,0.0
03449&t=h&z=18

I drove past it the other day, and next door - a yard - had a large
hoarding round it. Marked "london underground", or similar.

Now kennington tube station is having some work done to it.

But there's no evidence of a link to these hoardings from platform
level. It could be connected to the old passages - before they rebuilt
kennington for the other northern line branch - hidden away one floor
under the lifts, and on the train side of one of the platforms.

Except, the thing is, the platforms at kennington are to the south of
the station, and the station is more or less at the northern end of
them.

So what is the hoarding for?

If it's the site with the old single-storey substation (50-52 Kennington
Park Road), TfL were granted planning by last year for "the construction
of a 2 storey detached building in part-vacant site for use as
signalling station in conjunction with London Underground Railway
Network".

http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/publi...=KKRH9GBO0GL00

In other words, its for the Northern Line resignalling, due to be
finished next year.
--
Paul Terry

Old Red Lion - Kennington
 

On 4 Feb, 09:11, Paul Terry wrote:
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lonelytraveller writes



There's a pub on Kennington Park Road called The Old Red Lion. A
little to the north of Kennington tube station. Not far, just a train
length or so.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll...pn=0.00167,0.0
03449&t=h&z=18

I drove past it the other day, and next door - a yard - had a large
hoarding round it. Marked "london underground", or similar.

Now kennington tube station is having some work done to it.

But there's no evidence of a link to these hoardings from platform
level. It could be connected to the old passages - before they rebuilt
kennington for the other northern line branch - hidden away one floor
under the lifts, and on the train side of one of the platforms.

Except, the thing is, the platforms at kennington are to the south of
the station, and the station is more or less at the northern end of
them.

So what is the hoarding for?

If it's the site with the old single-storey substation (50-52 Kennington
Park Road), TfL were granted planning by last year for "the construction
of a 2 storey detached building in part-vacant site for use as
signalling station in conjunction with London Underground Railway
Network".

http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/publi...cation/applica...

In other words, its for the Northern Line resignalling, due to be
finished next year.
--
Paul Terry

Ah right, thanks, that seems to fit. Except, why is it above ground?
Wouldn't a signalling station need to a physical connection to the
northern line?

Old Red Lion - Kennington
 

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lonelytraveller writes

Ah right, thanks, that seems to fit. Except, why is it above ground?
Wouldn't a signalling station need to a physical connection to the
northern line?

It only needs electrical connections. I don't know quite what they have
in mind, because signalling for each tube line is run from a central
control room - in the case of the Northern, that is currently in Cobourg
Street (from where the Victoria line is also run). Cobourg Street is due
to close once resignalling is complete, at which point the Northern line
control centre moves to Highgate. I don't know what they have in mind
for Kennington - it could just be an unstaffed relay room, or perhaps a
secondary control centre in case of problems at Highgate.
--
Paul Terry