please empty your brain below
Crossrail? Yeah, lets stick with that name.

Working Class Hero | 11.04.16 - 6:31 a.m. | #

WCH Yeh, I'm with you on that, think it's quite an apt name.

2016 Lea Bridge Road? Er, that's it.

Lorenzo Hermoso | 11.04.16 - 7:16 a.m. | #

Still hoping for New Bermondsey/Surrey Canal Road in 2017...

commonliner | 11.04.16 - 7:19 a.m. | #

I'd have added New Bermondsey if I'd found any convincing evidence of an opening date.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 11.04.16 - 7:23 a.m. | #

Being pedantic.....
In 2018 we are due to see Crossrail operate Heathrow to Paddington first then later in 2018 Paddington to Abbey Wood will commence. But they'll be separate services using different platforms at Paddington. There won't be through trains from Heathrow to Abbey Wood in 2018.

IslandDweller | 11.04.16 - 8:00 a.m. | #

There will be one station opening in 2017 - and in an area of Zone 1 notably remote from any existing station........
http://postalmuseum.org/

(not a TFL station, of course, and the only destination available from this new station will be "return to sender".)

timbo | 11.04.16 - 10:09 a.m. | #

"2013: (nothing)
2014: (nothing)
2015: Overground takes over Greater Anglia lines, TfL Rail takes over Shenfield line
2016: (nothing)
2017: (nothing)"

The 2015 changes were merely a change of operator, with no new services, lines, or stations, so that's really five consecutive years of "nothing"

| 11.04.16 - 10:16 a.m. | #

The Gospel Oak to Barking Line gets converted from two-car diesels to four-car electrics in 2018, possibly earlier if they can borrow someone else's electric trains for a while. That's a fairly big deal.

Graham | 11.04.16 - 10:49 a.m. | #

Technically the Bermondsey Diveunder will open later this year. I know it's not a new 'line' as such, but it's a significant new piece of line infrastructure that should provide a dedicated Thameslink line from Blackfriars to just before NCG.

dg writes: Also, not TfL.

Sykobee | 11.04.16 - 12:22 p.m. | #

With luck, 2018 will see the Overground reaching out into Kent for the first time, taking over the Metro network from the unlamented Southeastern.

Gerry | 11.04.16 - 3:47 p.m. | #

@anonymous 10:16 nothing new may be opening for 5 years but what is happening in 2018 is going to be pretty significant and surely makes up for the fallow period.

Whiff | 11.04.16 - 3:57 p.m. | #

Would be interesting to know which of these (and the future bits) were Ken's doing, and which were Boris - from memory even Crossrail was Ken, with only the Northern Line extension being something Boris can take the credit for..

richard | 11.04.16 - 4:33 p.m. | #

Two we'd like to see, and have often been called for, but will probably never happen;-

Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace rebuilt.
Camberwell reopened.

Martin L | 11.04.16 - 4:45 p.m. | #

"Would be interesting to know which of these (and the future bits) were Ken's doing, and which were Boris - from memory even Crossrail was Ken, "

The Crossrail Act 2008 was passed less than three months after BoJo took office. It had taken three years to get through Parliament

The East London line conversion was already under way in 2008, although if Wikipedia is to be believed the Clapham Junction extension was not authorised until 2009 (but certainly appeared in publicity as early as 2006)

As for the cycle scheme, that was first proposed (by Livingstone) during the 2008 mayoral campaign. Johnson can, however, take the credit for actually implementing it
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/livingstone-plan-for-street-corner-cycle-hire-stands-781025.html

That leaves Croxley (authorised in 2011, and not actually in the mayor's fiefdom), the cable car, the cycle superhighways, and the Northern Line extension.

Oh, and a thousand mobile saunas

timbo | 11.04.16 - 5:07 p.m. | #

Not sure when but the rest of the old Eurostar platforms at Waterloo are supposed to be re-opening, hopefully before 2020.

dg writes: Also not TfL.

John | 11.04.16 - 5:24 p.m. | #

I offer a 4c comment:
2013 Kingscote to East Grinstead
Not Tfl, not even London, but charming and very welcome.

Tunnel Bore | 11.04.16 - 5:47 p.m. | #

@John
Indeed not TfL, but the answer to your question appears to be some time next year
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8718

timbo | 11.04.16 - 5:50 p.m. | #

...And after 2021 hopefully the Bakerloo line gets extended to Hayes/Beck. Junction. If it does, it will be at least 2030. What about Old Oak Common as well?

LOL WOT? | 11.04.16 - 5:58 p.m. | #

And I just realised that OOC will plan to open at 2026.

LOL WOT? | 11.04.16 - 6:19 p.m. | #

@Whiff

2018/19 will be very significant.
1. The London terminus I commute into will finally be able to take 10-car trains.
2. The tube line I use from that terminus to get to work will open a new entrance closer to my office.
3. Within five minutes walk of my place of work it will be possible to catch direct trains to Gatwick*, Heathrow, and the city where my son lives.
4. One stop down the line, I will be able to change for a direct train to the city where my father lives.

So is it worth all the building work going on around me to achieve this? Well, it would be - except that I am due to retire in 2018.

*All right, you can already, if you call the tortuous route via Tulse Hill "direct"

timbo | 13.04.16 - 1:42 p.m. | #











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