First of the new platforms will open Monday 18 June, with the other to
follow in the Autumn.

http://developments.dlr.co.uk/enhanc...d/whatnext.asp

Regards

"Harry G" wrote in message
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First of the new platforms will open Monday 18 June, with the other to
follow in the Autumn.

http://developments.dlr.co.uk/enhanc...d/whatnext.asp


Its running about 2 months behind schedule, which is quite unusual for a DLR
project...

Paul

On 6 Jun, 18:25, "Paul Scott" wrote:
"Harry G" wrote in message

ps.com...

First of the new platforms will open Monday 18 June, with the other to
follow in the Autumn.

http://developments.dlr.co.uk/enhanc...d/whatnext.asp

Its running about 2 months behind schedule, which is quite unusual for a DLR
project...

Odd to think about the present DLR platform - it stood unused for 50
years, got brought into use 20 years ago, and now is to be abandoned.

In article om, Harry
G writes
First of the new platforms will open Monday 18 June, with the other to
follow in the Autumn.

I went past it this morning. It would appear that they've installed
points in the line so that trains can be routed into the southern
platform. Once that's in use, the track into the existing platform will
be slewed to meet that in the northern of the new platforms.

In diagrammatic form:

Now:

-----------\
###New### \
--------- \
\
---------------*-------- to Pudding Mill Lane
###Old###

After the new one opens:

-----------\
###New### \
----------\ \
\ \
--------- \--*-------- to Pudding Mill Lane
###Old###

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On 6 Jun, 18:25, "Paul Scott" wrote:
"Harry G" wrote in message

oups.com...

First of the new platforms will open Monday 18 June, with the other to
follow in the Autumn.
http://developments.dlr.co.uk/enhanc...d/whatnext.asp
Its running about 2 months behind schedule, which is quite unusual for a DLR
project...

Odd to think about the present DLR platform - it stood unused for 50
years, got brought into use 20 years ago, and now is to be abandoned.

Probably says more about the usefullness (lack of) of a short bay
platform facing towards London in Stratford. How many trains terminate
there from that direction, DLR asside?

Robin

On Jun 8, 1:40 pm, "R.C. Payne" wrote:
wrote:
On 6 Jun, 18:25, "Paul Scott" wrote:
"Harry G" wrote in message

oups.com...

First of the new platforms will open Monday 18 June, with the other to
follow in the Autumn.
http://developments.dlr.co.uk/enhanc...d/whatnext.asp
Its running about 2 months behind schedule, which is quite unusual for a DLR
project...

Odd to think about the present DLR platform - it stood unused for 50
years, got brought into use 20 years ago, and now is to be abandoned.

Probably says more about the usefullness (lack of) of a short bay
platform facing towards London in Stratford. How many trains terminate
there from that direction, DLR asside?

Robin

The Great Eastern Railway (later LNER) ran passenger services from
Fenchurch St. to Stratford via Bow Road for many years. The two bay
platforms were intended for this but never used since these trains
were axed in the late 1940s, and Bow Road station closed, before the
Stratford reconstruction was completed. The line via Bow Road is
still there but used only for diversions/engineering etc.

The DLR bay will not be completely disused - the track area will be
filled in and occupied by the ramps to a new footbridge crossing the
Westbound Central Line to the new DLR platforms. Obviously this
cannot be put in place until the existing DLR platform closes.

On 8 Jun, 18:02, umpston wrote:

The Great Eastern Railway (later LNER) ran passenger services from
Fenchurch St. to Stratford via Bow Road for many years. The two bay
platforms were intended for this but never used since these trains
were axed in the late 1940s, and Bow Road station closed, before the
Stratford reconstruction was completed.

Was track ever installed in platform 7? I don't remember ever seeing
any, but the platforms were never re-nmbered to eliminate the unused
ones, indeed, in more recent times platform 10a was created to avoid
re-numbering existing ones. The only old platform at Stratford that
had its number 'reclaimed', and used elsewhere.

Stratford is the only station with more than two platforms I can think
of where the lowest (1) and highest (15) numbered platforms are next
to each other.

Also, it must surely be the only station where four consecutivly
numbered platforms, 2-5, have four different elextrification systems,
at least for a few more days. Of course, it also had two other
systems in the past.

How are the new DLR platforms going to be numbered?

"Stephen Furley" wrote in message
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On 8 Jun, 18:02, umpston wrote:

The Great Eastern Railway (later LNER) ran passenger services from
Fenchurch St. to Stratford via Bow Road for many years. The two bay
platforms were intended for this but never used since these trains
were axed in the late 1940s, and Bow Road station closed, before the
Stratford reconstruction was completed.

Stratford is the only station with more than two platforms I can think
of where the lowest (1) and highest (15) numbered platforms are next
to each other.

How about Edinburgh Waverley, where 1 and 20 are together?

Also, it must surely be the only station where four consecutivly
numbered platforms, 2-5, have four different elextrification systems,
at least for a few more days. Of course, it also had two other
systems in the past.

How are the new DLR platforms going to be numbered?


I would suggest 4A and 4B if I was a betting man, as the whole station
needs renumbering, but it would probably make sense to wait until all the
alterations to provide new NLL platforms and the new westbound Central line
platform are completed.

Paul S

"Paul Scott" wrote in message
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"Stephen Furley" wrote in message
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How are the new DLR platforms going to be numbered?


I would suggest 4A and 4B if I was a betting man, as the whole station
needs renumbering, but it would probably make sense to wait until all the
alterations to provide new NLL platforms and the new westbound Central
line platform are completed.


On second thoughts, don't place any bets, the platforms are already shown as
4A and 4B on TfL's drawings of the Stratford upgrades...

Paul

So the new station opened today (only first platform obviously). I
must say I'm quite impressed, mostly by the size of the thing - it is
much wider then it looked like from aside :-)

Now I have to pass two stairs to get to the westbound Central line
though :-|