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"Sixteen photos from down under at Tottenham Court Road"
Link did no work for me at 0730am

dg writes: Should now be fixed, thanks.
Fascinating article, thanks. What are the big circular holes for that are cut into the white moulded curvy corner cladding?
Fabulous!
Thanks for going and sharing this glimpse into the future for the rest of us.

Once it's opened, people will take it for granted and few will wonder at the massive project and its management that went on behind the scenes to make it all fit together.

What a contrast to Bus Stop M and its associated failings !
I'm rather glad I made it into the Canary Wharf station about three years ago, in the days when you could Q rather than take pot luck with "fastest finger first" on EventBrite. By my reckoning TCR was gone within 20 seconds or so this year.
I managed it onto the 10:15 tour of TCR yesterday - which probably is the closest I've gotten to spotting the elusive DG...
Tried OpenHouse yesterday and was very disappointed, almost all of the venues were booked early on whilst others had hours to queue, a victim of its own success compared to three years ago when I last tried, no doubt hampered by the not so wonderful TimeOut publication, I won't be wasting my time next year sadly
The two sweet little architects at the Western Entrance seemed very bright and articulate. And who said kids today can't even write their own names? What struck me most was the immense scale of the thing; like it had been designed for another race entirely. Could they have built two Jubilee-size tube lines for the price of this, I wonder?
Oh how I miss The Astoria.
Minor correction- I believe the the platforms are long enough to take 11 car trains- which would be ~245m, a little longer than a 12-car Thameslink train

dg writes: Sorry, just going by what the station's construction chief told us.
Like most decent things in London, it's impossible to get tickets for.

dg writes: Obviously it's not impossible, given that I and two commenters got tickets. But if you weren't online during the right couple of minutes, annoyingly, you missed out.

Timeout is terrible these days, it's just "advertorials" and "promotional" stories.
This is great, thanks, really interesting. I currently travel to TCR from Greenwich, and if I'm still in the same job and flat when it opens, I'll be arriving there by Liz Line instead. I'm so desperate for the Dean Street entrance to open, so I don't have to elbow my way through the crowds on Oxford Street every night. I'm the kind of person who notices my surroundings anyway, but I promise not to take all the styling for granted! As for platform positioning for the exit - it's going to be fun the first week of the Liz Line while everyone works out where they should be, but I guess if it's quite some distance it'll be an easy way for me to rack up extra Fitbit steps if I need to, by getting it wrong!
Super read, fascinating stuff. Congrats on bagging the tickets and reporting back!
We ignored central London this year and went underground in East Sheen. Just a 10 minute queue. An air raid shelter in front of private flats. The shelter was a selling point put in by the developer. Fascinating...

http://www.environmenttrust.co.uk/air-raid-shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/e/east_sheen/index.html
@ mighty mouse

Crossrail may be going to TCR, but it's not going anywhere nearer Greenwich than Canary Wharf.

Although I see the latest Thameslink consultation suggests a direct service from Greenwich to Farringdon

@timbo

I imagine Greenwich -> West India Quay/Canary Wharf -> TCR would be a very sensible way of doing the trip (much better than Greenwich -> Cannon Street/Bank -> TCR as it is now).
Imagine the 'Northern PowerHouse' having a tranpsort link on this scale ...exactly
Great Article! Thank you for sharing :)
@grumpy

The reality is that the region covered by the Northern Powerhouse is too diffuse to need any single project on this scale, with no one centre. It needs a whole network of smaller links between the many towns that make up the conurbation.
Fast links between three or four city centres may even make things worse for places in between, such as Halifax and Warrington.

I think the link up to the St Giles Circus ticket hall is actually only 3 escalators, while the link to Dean Street is 4. This seems the wrong way round to me but I guess they hope everyone will enter/exit via Dean Street.

I'm never normally organised enough to get tickets for this sort of thing but was reading your blog at 12.03 on the day the tickets came on sale and saw you'd put a link up - so thanks for that!










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