RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted December 30, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2016 I travelled over the new down line on the Bermondsey flyover for the first time today. That should provide some much-needed increased capacity from London Bridge. Not sure when the up line will be ready; not for a fair while I guess, due to the lack of track! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium phil-b259 Posted December 30, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2016 I travelled over the new down line on the Bermondsey flyover for the first time today. That should provide some much-needed increased capacity from London Bridge. Not sure when the up line will be ready; not for a fair while I guess, due to the lack of track! I am a little unsure as to what 'up' line you are referring to here. The other section of track that has been laid through the dive-under will be used by Charing Cross services (admiadly in the up direction) and has nothing to do with Brighton services. In fact with the commissioning of the down line through the dive under the low level approches are now in their final configuration and will not be expanded any more. Somewhere on the internet there was a document outlining the next key stages - IIRC the aforementioned Charing Cross line may come into use around Easter when the Cannon Street tracks will be realocated to their final position at London Bridge (though still with services not stopping) thus releasing the forth Charing Cross platform for service and the future Thameslink platform sites to be finished. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Hamblin Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 There were no tracks on the 'over' bit of the dive under before Christmas - I think this will eventually carry the two dedicated Thameslink Up and Down lines (official designation?). IIRC the Charing Cross dive under lines should come into service during the August 2017 blockade, from a recent article in Modern Railways. Regards, Dan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted December 30, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2016 It is the 'over' bit I am thinking of in terms of up lines. The train I travelled on today, the 15:42 to Brighton, used the new section; passing beneath the flyover, climbing the incline over the TFL chord to the South London line and joining the down slow lines towards East Croydon just north of New Cross Gate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher125 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 NR have uploaded a cabride of the new Down line through the Bermondsey diveunder: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Yesterday (16/01/17) ......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dan Hamblin Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 New P&C on the East side of London Bridge station for the future Cannon Street lines and the hoardings between them and the consruction site has been removed as well - can't be too long before tracks get laid through platforms 1 to 4. Regards, Dan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lurker Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Last time I walked down Tooley Street there was still a great big gap where they have removed arches and are rebuilding over it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted March 7, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 7, 2017 66089 and 66017 were top-n-tailing on the the up line on the new Bermondsey flyover this morning. Maybe not the first train on it, but the first I have seen in my morning commute. The up line has only been laid over the last week or so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertcwp Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Last time I walked down Tooley Street there was still a great big gap where they have removed arches and are rebuilding over it. Tooley Street last week: 20170302_133516am by Robert Carroll, on Flickr 20170302_133717am by Robert Carroll, on Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 I really must go and have a look at this; I worked on reconstructing the Thames Tunnel shaft works at Tooley St in 1991, and the JLE at London Bridge in 1995-6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Hamblin Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 Looks like track is being laid through platform 1 as well. A GBRf Class 66 was sitting on the new track at the East end of the platform with a rake of ballast wagons. Ballast had been dropped between platforms 1 and 2 and the track for 1 could be seen extending between the platforms from the previous rail head. Regards, Dan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted March 9, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2017 66770, still there this morning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertcwp Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 I believe that Cannon Street trains will switch to using the tracks through platforms 1 and 2 after the Easter blockade, but will not stop at London Bridge as there will be no means of access to the platforms. Charing Cross trains gain access to platform 6 after the August blockade, when they will also switch to the diveunder (if not before). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dan Hamblin Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Track now laid through platform 1 and some of platform 2, with 66770 sitting outside with what looks like a rail delivery train. Also a Freightliner Class 66 and ballast wagons waiting on the West side of the 'over' part of the diveunder. Switching the Cannon Street non-stop trains to platforms 1 and 2 makes sense as it would allow completion of the West end of platform 5, which has been stopped short of the new concrete fire exit to allow the Down Cannon Street line to be slewed across to join with the tracks from Cannon Street. This would then allow a start to be made on laying the Thameslink dedicated tracks. Regards, Dan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 At the moment the "Deptford" flyunder is laid but without third rail and they have started to lay the "Thameslink" flyover. There isn't enough space where the flyover lands for all existing and future tracks so I'm guessing the Deptford will become the temporary up CX. That means they can finish the flyover. Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Track now visible on the YouTube time lapse videos. Construction of the new Tooley St. entrance and station facade has also begun.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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