NLL/WLL platform lengthening contract awarded.

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Transport for London (TfL) today appointed leading construction and civil engineering firm Dyer and Butler as the contractor to lengthen and modify some of the station platforms on the Clapham Junction/Richmond to Stratford London Overground route.

The work is part of a huge upgrade programme to deliver an additional 25 per cent capacity to meet increasing demand on the capital's fastest growing railway.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/29132.aspx

One aspect of the WLL work (touched on recently in other threads) is the statement that NR are already extending the WLL platforms for SN's WLL services, with a May 2014 deadline. (I assume this is to full 8 car length 'in one hit', there'd be no point in doing five car initially and extending again later, and of course SN are already expected to run at least one 8 car service from May...)

The TfL press release also gives an update on the timescales for all the platform lengthening including the ELL:

December 2013 - March 2014
Highbury & Islington and Canonbury (East London line platforms), Surrey Quays
February - April 2014
Dalson Junction, Hoxton and Haggerston
February - July 2014
South Acton, Acton Central, Willesden Junction and Wandsworth Road
April - June 2014
Shoreditch High Street, Shadwell, Canada Water, Clapham Junction and Wapping
May - November 2014
Kensal Rise, Brondesbury Park, Brondesbury, West Hampstead, Finchley Road & Frognal, Hampstead Heath, Gospel Oak, Kentish Town West
September 2014 - April 2015
Camden Road, Caledonian Road & Barnsbury, Highbury & Islington (North London line platforms), Canonbury (North London line platforms), Dalston Kingsland, Homerton