Network Rail launched modernisation works on Waterloo station, being considered “one of the most significant and complex engineering projects.”
1,000 engineers and trackside staff will be working to build extensions onto platforms 1 – 4, and to modify platforms 5 – 8, so that longer, modern trains can run from December 2017.
The work in August is all part of the EUR 885 million Waterloo & South West Upgrade, which will ultimately provide space for 45,000 extra passengers every morning and every evening – equivalent to the capacity of the Oval and the O2 Arena combined – to and from Waterloo.
“This is an important day for the rail network as we reach a crucial stage in one of the most complex and significant engineering projects ever delivered at Waterloo, our nation’s busiest station. From the end of this year our passengers will be able to enjoy a much more comfortable journey into this station, with longer, modern trains,” Becky Lumlock, route managing director at Network Rail said.
Across the network, the Waterloo and South West Upgrade will bring longer platforms for longer trains, 30 brand new trains, providing 150 extra carriages, between London Waterloo and Windsor, new technology to make trains more efficient and improve punctuality and improvements to depots and maintenance facilities to look after the network’s biggest ever fleet of trains.
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