London Banter - View Single Post - Additional Jubilee and Northen trains deferred

Recliner[_3_] · October 12th 17, 10:47 AM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:21:13 +0100
David Walters wrote:
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 08:33:52 +0000 (UTC),
wrote:
On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:17:20 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Corfield wrote:
service to reach Battersea. One other factor they will have to cope with is=
the impact of the works at Bank which may slow trains down slightly due to=
the extensive tunnelling work being done. That's a short term thing but st=
ill affects the timetable.

Tunnelling at Bank? Whats this for? I thought all the crosstail tunnelling
was complete long ago.

Nothing to do with Crossrail.
https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publica...n-capacity-upg
ade

Interesting, didn't know about that. I haven't used Bank for a while but it
was always overcrowded in the rush hour on the northern line platforms. Can't
see how they can improve that short of tunnelling a new diversion tube tunnel
like they did at Angel.

Nor could they, which is why that's exactly what they're doing.