Paul Corfield wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:07:27 -0700 (PDT), 1506
wrote:

On Jul 23, 8:59 am, "Paul Scott"
wrote:
Amongst all the transport announcements yesterday and today,
approval has been given for the Victoria underground station
upgrades:

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/twa/dl/vic...ionupgrade.pdf

With the inspectors report he

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/twa/ir/vic...ionupgrade.pdf

Hope of interest

Paul S

IIR It is not so very long since Victoria Station was last upgraded.
Again, IIRC, that was a new link between the District & Circle, and
Victoria Lines.

It was a long while back (late 80s / early 90s?) and provided only
marginal relief to a couple of staircases off the eastbound District
Line platform.

Early 90s according to the latter report.

Victoria is a nightmare station to use and while a
£500m scheme is jolly nice I fear that the really important solution
- an extra Vic Line platform - is probably never going to arrive.

Has that been planned in detail Paul? Presumably it would effectively allow
a doubling of platformed time for trains in the peak direction only, whilst
maintaining the full service frequency. So to allow use in both peaks with
the simplest track layout one of the existing platforms would have to become
a bidirectional central road.

Paul S