London Bridge Redevelopment December 2015 Status

All photographs on this page and the report are by Colin Price

(above) 465038 leading 465036 through platform 4 working 13:36 Charing Cross - Sevenoaks on 18th December. Futher removal of the old footbridge is evident. From January 4th the Charing Cross trains will run through the new alignment behind the hoardings and the tracks in this picture will be taken out of use.

(below) 465024 leading an up Cannon Street service and 465022 on 13.02 Gravesend - Charing Cross on 18th December. The Charing Cross lines will be slewed over back where the approaching Charing Cross train is and join the track work on the right. The last connection between Cannon Street and Charing Cross lines (in the foreground) will be severed with North Kent East Junction and New Cross becoming the last opportunity for inbound trains to cross.

(above) 375901 working 13:45 Charing Cross - Hastings passes 375618 on 12.31 Hastings - Charing Cross on 18th December. To the right can be seen a temporary connection off the old Up Passenger loop onto the new alignment through what will be platforms 8 and 9. The temporary track allowed various works trains in to lay track and ballast the new viaduct over Borough Market. Also visible hooded over is a signal which will be on the Down Charing Cross line and controlled from Three Bridges after the New Year. Three Bridges will take over from Charing Cross down to this signal which will be where the new signalling fringes (for the time being at least) with London Bridge box.

(below) On 23rd December, 375907 and 375911 depart Waterloo East working 13:15 Charing Cross - Hastings. The old London Bridge signalling is still in situ for another day (the last train out was 19:45 Charing Cross - Hastings on Christmas Eve) with the new signalling waiting to be commissioned. The new gantry the train is passing also has Three Bridges signals on. These were observed illuminated on 29th December, while some of the new signalling on the Borough Market viaduct was illuminated by 22nd December.

All the Christmas/New Year civil engineering and permanent way work is due to be finished by early on 2nd January, when various test trains are scheduled to start running testing the new signalling in and out of Charing Cross.

Earlier aspects of the re-development of London Bridge Station:

• LONDON BRIDGE OCTOBER 2015 STATUS
• LONDON BRIDGE SEPTEMBER 2015 STATUS
• LONDON BRIDGE - WHAT A DIFFERENCE 363 DAYS MAKES!
• LONDON BRIDGE JUNE 2015 STATUS
• LONDON BRIDGE MAY 2015 STATUS
• LONDON BRIDGE MARCH 2015 STATUS
• LONDON BRIDGE FEBRUARY 2015 STATUS
• LONDON BRIDGE AFTER 10TH JANUARY 2015
• LONDON BRIDGE PRIOR TO 10TH JANUARY 2015
• EARLIER ASPECTS OF LONDON BRIDGE REDEVELOPMENT