Crossrail 2 Crossrail 2 is a new proposed railway linking the national rail networks in Surrey and Hertfordshire via an underground tunnel through London. The new railway links at key locations throughout the city centre, including Tottenham Court Road, Euston St. Pancras, Victoria, Clapham Junction and Wimbledon. This would improve access to and from London across the wider South East and significantly reduce congestion on existing services. Crossrail 2 would transform travel in the region, improve connectivity throughout the UK. Serving stations throughout the South East, linking south west and north east London, as well as destinations across Surrey and Hertfordshire. Crossrail 2 would benefit towns and cities across the South East such as Cambridge, Portsmouth, Woking and
Southampton by freeing up mainline rail routes and reducing congestion into Waterloo and Liverpool Street. Towns and cities across the region would benefit from faster or more frequent journeys into London on both Crossrail 2 trains and National Rail services into other mainline stations. Crossrail 2 would help relieve congestion on busy routes into central London and support economic development in and around the capital, specifically targeting some key opportunity areas, such as the Upper Lea Valley, Victoria and Euston and St Pancras. It would create better connections across the South East and the whole country, with a new Euston / St Pancras station providing direct access to the new High Speed 2 line, Thameslink and Eurostar services.
Northern Line extension to Battersea Power Station The Northern line extension will improve transport links and public spaces in the area and is essential to support the transformation of Vauxhall, Nine Elms and Battersea, a designated regeneration area on the South Bank. Up to 25,000 jobs and 20,000 new homes could be created. An independent report on the economic impact of the extension has shown it could generate substantial benefits to the area. Main tunnelling takes place in 2017, with stations fitted out in 2019. Testing and commissioning extension in 2020.
The Driving New Fleet Of The London Underground
Futuristic images of what London’s tube trains might look like have been revealed They include features that are set to make journeys more comfortable and reliable for passengers. The 250 sleek new trains will be driverless, similar to the current Docklands Light Railway trains, and will grace the Bakerloo, Central, Piccadilly and Waterloo and City lines as soon as 2025. The new trains will be high capacity, air conditioned and have walk-through carriages. This will make them similar to the new batch of carriages recently introduced on the Circle, District and Hammersmith and City lines.
At first, drivers will take control of the new trains, which have been designed by London’s Priestman Goode, but the plan is to make them fully autonomous.