Time savings deposited at Bank

Transport for London collected this year’s National Rail Awards Major Project of the Year for “the most complex and technically challenging” project ever delivered on the London Underground. RICHARD WILCOCK reports

Upgrading railway stations can be complex and long processes. This is even more true of a station that sits at the epicentre of one of the busiest rail networks in the world. But the success of the Bank Station Capacity Upgrade over the course of a decade shows that collaboration, patience and perseverance is alive and well in the industry. This was one of the reasons why the judges at RAIL’s National Rail Awards 2024 chose Transport for London’s entry as the winner of the Major Project of the Year award. The team at TfL started this journey in 2013, with the aim of tackling the station’s ‘rabbit warren’ system of partially connected and standalone tunnels. Passenger flow modelling and data had shown that many passengers were avoiding the station…

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