28 NOVEMBER 2011

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Article from BTNews 28 NOVEMBER 2011

Tube station re-opens

Northern Line regulars, and users of the London Underground, will be pleased to learn that both the north and south platforms have re-opened today at Tottenham Court Road station.

They have been closed since April, a team of over 100 people working around the clock to complete the critical structural works, involving the installation of over 1,000 tonnes of new steel tunnel sections.  The work is part of a major package to install new access routes, staircases and lifts by 2016, station capacity dramatically increasing.

The £500m station upgrade is part of the Tube upgrade plan to ease congestion, improve accessibility and provide direct interchange with Crossrail services when they arrive in 2018.

When Tottenham Court Road station was built over 100 years ago, it was not designed to be used by the 147,000 people that now use it daily, or the 200,000 plus daily travellers expected when Crossrail comes to the station in 2018.  When complete the size of the ticket hall will be six times that of the present one. www.tfl.gov.uk/tubeupgradeplan 

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