Work to lengthen London Overground trains from four carriages to five has been completed, increasing passenger capacity by 25%. The longer trains will operate on key routes such as the East London, West London, North London and Euston to Watford routes. This project will help meet the increasing demand for the highly popular rail service and provide room for an extra 170 passengers per train.
The increase from four to five-carriage trains is part of Transport for London’s £320 million programme to boost capacity on the network, and the introduction of the longer trains, which began in November 2014, has now been completed on time and on budget.
Transport for London’s Director of London Overground, Mike Stubbs, said: “Over the whole network, we now carry 176 million passengers a year, which is six times the number we carried when we took over this railway in 2007. The extra carriages that we have now introduced are enabling us to continue to provide our customers with the high quality of safe, reliable and frequent services that they need and expect.”
London Overground will be able to carry more passengers on the Gospel Oak to Barking route once the line is electrified, and its diesel trains are replaced with electric trains, in 2018.
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