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Paul Corfield · September 7th 05, 09:19 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On 7 Sep 2005 01:04:19 -0700, wrote:

There was much on the news last night about the £500M revamp at
Victoria and the increse in capacity. Surely you can only increase
capacity buy increasing the frequency of trains or increasing the
carrying capacity or have I missed something.

The upgrade of Victoria station is urgently needed because it simply
cannot cope with current loadings. People are delayed getting through
all parts of the station when it is busy or worse.

The station upgrade coincides with the delivery of the line upgrade
according to the press release. This means that the higher volumes of
people being carried by the upgraded train service can actually get in
and out of Victoria and conversely, of course, that there is more train
service to carry the extra people who will be able to use Victoria
without getting delayed as the congested parts of the station will have
been rebuild or added to..

The scale of the planned construction is quite something but I am
somewhat disappointed that it seems to do very little indeed to deal
with the District / Circle parts of the station which is horribly
cramped with platforms that are too small and connecting corridors
bridges which are inappropriate. I wonder if a Phase 2 is planned to
deal with the increased service provided by the sub surface upgrade?
--
Paul C

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