Blackfriars Station Beset By Delays

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blackfriars_3.jpg The completion date for the new, Thames-spanning station at Blackfriars has been pushed back by four months. Network Rail blamed the delay on additional repair work over Blackfriars bridge, which involves incorporating the adjacent, disused piers into a new cross-river structure. The cost of the project is also spiralling: a source at contractor Balfour Beatty, speaking to Building magazine, said that the final project cost had yet to be agreed, with the overspend currently rumoured to be around the £100 million mark. Blackfriars, which closed in early 2009, is now due to re-open in spring 2012, perilously close to the Olympic Games.

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  • http://undefined Graham

    Hmmm – where to start with this one?

    OK – Blackfriars Station hasn’t closed at all for Thameslink services during the build (the Tube station has but will reopen before the end of 2011)

    The cost is not ‘spiralling’ and is within the original Programme budget

    The new station will be ready for 12 car trains by the end of 2011 as planned with finishing works carrying on until the Spring of 2012.

    That change in final completion came as a direct result of additional repair and renovation work that was required on the bridge structure but it hasn’t got in the way of passengers getting their 12 car station on time which is clearly THE most important thing.

  • http://undefined cobo04

    Use this station daily for work (like work right next door to it), all is well with the Thameslink service (well, as well as things are with FCC), the building work goes on with big holes appearing under the station and a nice box covering over the Circle/District lines which have been unearthed. Nothing has been done to the unused pillars so not sure what will, seems from speaking with the FCC station staff that all that will happen is that the Thameslink and terminal lines are to swap over to take the bend out of the Thameslink lines and the hazard of the lines crossing as they did until the terminus was closed and dug up. So dispite there being little to no platform shelter, the trains stop at the ‘wrong end’ of the platform to the exit into Queen Victoria Street, all is going well.

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