Major London train station to get multi-million revamp – with works starting next year

A MAJOR London conduit presumption is acceptable to get a multi-million lb revamp adjacent year.

Transport for London (Tfl) confirmed the changes to the Elephant and Castle London Underground presumption connected Monday.

Tfl said they volition hugely summation the station's capacity, adhd successful a caller presumption box, tunnels and step-free access.

The tunnels volition besides supply step-free entree to the Northern enactment for the precise archetypal time.

Elephant and Castle conduit presumption operates connected the Northern and Bakerloo lines of the London Underground.

They are expected to tally for 135 metres and nexus its caller presumption container with Northern enactment platforms.

Work connected the presumption container commenced backmost successful 2022 and a passageway declaration has been awarded to engineering steadfast Dragados UK.

Delancey, who developed the Elephant & Castle buying centre site, is acceptable to physique the presumption box.

The changes person been brought connected by an expected surge successful users of the Elephant and Castle conduit station.

Station usage is expected to emergence by 24-50 per cent according to TfL statistics.

Excavating enactment successful the tunnels volition commencement successful 2025 and hopes for completion by 2027.

Deputy Mayor for Transport, Seb Dance, said: "I'm delighted TfL has present appointed a tunnelling contractor truthful enactment tin proceed connected the captious Elephant and Castle Tube presumption upgrade.

"[This] volition springiness the presumption measurement escaped entree for the archetypal clip and present a caller Northern enactment entranceway and summons hall.

"These important upgrades volition not lone amended lawsuit journeys done the presumption but volition besides enactment the transportation of thousands of caller jobs and caller homes successful Elephant and Castle, supporting the Mayor's purpose for a fairer, greener London for everyone." 

Stuart Harvey, TfL's Chief Capital Officer, added: "Work is progressing good connected the large upgrade of Elephant and Castle Tube station.

"The assignment of a tunnelling contractor [is] a important measurement guardant successful delivering an expanded presumption acceptable to service this increasing assemblage for galore decades to come.

"When completed, the caller entranceway and summons hallway volition supply step-free entree from thoroughfare to level level connected the Northern enactment and summation presumption capableness by implicit 30 per cent.

"Further successful the future, and taxable to TfL securing the indispensable funding, the program is for this caller entranceway to besides service Bakerloo enactment customers arsenic portion of the planned Bakerloo Line Extension."