Final phase of London Bridge railway station opens

anon5422159 · January 2, 2018, 7:58am

The final section of the new concourse and the final five platforms opened for the first time, allowing Cannon Street trains to resume calling at the redeveloped station.

Work started in 2013, and it hasn’t been an easy one for passengers, beset not just with a massive building site, but also huge problems with the train network operator out of London Bridge.

Your correspondent gave up using the station for a while when commuting to South London and found alternative routes so bad was the disruption.

Now that the main works are complete, the vast new concourse, larger than the pitch at Wembley, unites all fifteen platforms for the first time. There are two new entrances on Tooley Street, which will connect the north and south sides of the station, while the completion of the five new platforms will allow Cannon Street services to once again stop at London Bridge.

The tracks through and around the station have also been entirely remodelled to modernise the infrastructure and to allow more trains to travel through central London.

Work is expected to continue on the station concourse until the spring and throughout 2018 as new shops and services are opened.

Bolgerp · January 2, 2018, 9:16am

Except the top concourse still has the hoarding in place, so I’m not sure “fully open” (as reported on a couple of news sites this morning) is accurate.

fran · January 2, 2018, 9:58am

Saw this just after I walked the long way round. Tooley Street entrances look good.

Baboonery · January 9, 2018, 6:27pm

Whoever spent 10 years rebuilding a station (much of it was shut while Southwark Towers was demolished and the Shard was built, remember, all before the ‘official’ rebuild started) and didn’t include both up and down escalators from a mammoth concourse onto platforms isn’t exactly a genius. And whoever put that departure board by the foot of the escalator/stairs up to P11/12 that ensures that you miss your train because you’re fighting through people waiting to see when theirs is going to arrive was a downright idiot. Passengers at the station have been treated appallingly throughout, with no clue as to which exit is going to be open from one day to the next. ‘It’ll be nice when it’s finished’, we heard constantly. It isn’t, really.