Victoria Station work complete

Gatwick Airport users, and commuters in general, at Victoria Station will be pleased to learn that the work on the three escalators which descend to the Victoria Line platforms has been completed.  They are reputed to be the second most-used escalators in the world with 21m customers hopping on and off each year.

Over a period they have been out of service in sequence, one at a time, causing huge bottlenecks and the introduction of what some called a questionable and inconvenient one-way system.  To be fair to Transport for London there was probably no way around the problem.  In any event the work has been completed three months ahead of schedule.  The full upgrade of the Victoria Station Underground complex, including the Circle/District line operation and further escalators, will not be completed until 2018. www.tfl.gov.uk

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