23 February (Part 1) - Crossrail. First sign of temporary Abbey Wood station
Yet
another trainless weekend for Erith, Belvedere and Abbey Wood travellers,
this time a Sunday not the Saturday of recent weeks.
So far progress would appear to be of the subterranean kind with new cable and
ducts but at last an above ground structure is taking shape. Will it become a footbridge?
Is it a new booking hall?
To find out you should perhaps get yourself along to the Abbey Wood Community Centre (Knee Hill, opposite
the Lesnes eyesore)
next Wednesday between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Representatives from
Lesnes Abbey Labour Action Team have promised to drop in.
I shall ask if the plans definitely include a station footbridge at the London end of
the platforms. With twelve coach trains promised on both lines we don’t want to see everyone
crowding into one end of trains or dragging suitcases the length of 24 coaches.
Network Rail has plans of the
temporary arrangements on its website.
Click on the maps
section. It does look as though two footbridges will be provided for the
finished station.
More Crossrail images.
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