{"id":5487,"date":"2011-11-24T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T10:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5487"},"modified":"2011-11-23T22:51:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T22:51:25","slug":"tottenham-court-road-tube-upgrade-tfl-release-work-in-progress-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/tottenham-court-road-tube-upgrade-tfl-release-work-in-progress-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Court Road reopens on the 28th Nov. TfL lob out a work in progress video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/tottenham-court-road-tube-01.jpg\" alt=\"Tottenham Court Road tube upgrade - TfL release work in progress video\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tottenham Court Road tube station has been closed for construction work for what seems\u00a0like\u00a0an eternity, but &#8211; after one last weekend closure &#8211; it will be reopening on\u00a0Monday 28th November. Huzzah!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/tottenham-court-road-tube-02.jpg\" alt=\"Tottenham Court Road tube upgrade - TfL release work in progress video\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The station closed in April 2011 and since then over\u00a0100 people have been beavering away underground to complete the works.<\/p>\n<p>This involved removing\u00a0800 tonnes of cast iron segments from the tunnel lining and installing over 1,000 tonnes of the new steel tunnel sections.<\/p>\n<p>Work at the station won&#8217;t be completed until 2016, with construction still\u00a0underway\u00a0to\u00a0\u00a0increase capacity, extend the\u00a0size of the ticket hall by nearly six times, introduce step free access from street to platform,\u00a0provide four new or modernised entrances,\u00a0construct\u00a0new escalators and improve interchanges between platforms.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the matter of connecting with the new Crossrail ticket hall at Dean Street.<\/p>\n<p>TfL have knocked out a video showing some behind the scenes views of the work involved thus far:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"580\" height=\"325\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IaWvKS01E0Q?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/london-underground.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/tottenham-court-road-tube-video.html\" target=\"_blank\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Court Road tube station has been closed for construction work for what seems\u00a0like\u00a0an eternity, but &#8211; after one last weekend closure &#8211; it will be reopening on\u00a0Monday 28th November. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193,90],"tags":[10,145],"class_list":["post-5487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","category-railways","tag-london","tag-tube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tottenham-court-road-tube-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1qv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5487"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions\/5489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}