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Battersea Power Station tube station

Coordinates: 51°28′46″N 0°08′31″W / 51.47950°N 0.14200°W / 51.47950; -0.14200
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Battersea Power Station London Underground
Battersea Power Station, which the station is set to serve.
Battersea Power Station is located in Greater London
Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station
Location of Battersea Power Station in Greater London
LocationBattersea
Local authorityLondon Borough of Wandsworth
Managed byLondon Underground
OwnerLondon Underground
Number of platforms2
Fare zone1
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019Not opened[1]
2020Not opened[2]
2021Increase 2.18 million[3]
2022Increase 8.65 million[4]
2023Decrease 8.40 million[5]
Key dates
2021Planned opening
Other information
Coordinates51°28′46″N 0°08′31″W / 51.47950°N 0.14200°W / 51.47950; -0.14200
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Battersea Power Station (previously proposed as Battersea) is a London Underground station under construction in Battersea, London, as part of the Northern line extension to Battersea (NLE).

Partially funded by the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station,[6] the new station will serve the redevelopment site, as well as Battersea itself. The station will be located on Battersea Park Road, close to Battersea Park railway station and a short walking distance from Queenstown Road (Battersea) railway station. It is due to open in autumn 2021.[7]

Services

The future station will be located in Zone 1, and will be served by the Northern line as part of the extension from Kennington to serve the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station. Trains from Battersea Power Station will only run via Charing Cross as the branch will be an extension off the Kennington loop.[8] The station will serve as the terminus for the new branch, although provision has been made for a possible future extension to Clapham Junction railway station.[9] The station will also serve as an out-of-station interchange with Battersea Park railway station.[10]

Design

The station will be designed and built by Ferrovial Agroman Laing O’Rourke,[11] with station entrance architecture by Grimshaw.[12] Art on the Underground has commissioned the artist Alexandre da Cunha to install a permanent piece of artwork in the ticket hall of the station: a 100-metre-long kinetic sculpture, using the obsolete technology of the rotating billboard.[13][14]

Construction

Station entrance under construction in 2020

The station was given final approval by the Secretary of State for Transport in November 2014,[15] and construction began in 2015, with completion originally scheduled for 2020.[16]

Tunnelling of the NLE began at Battersea, with the two tunnel boring machines, Helen and Amy, departing the site in March 2017 to dig the running tunnels of the extended line.[6]

In the draft edition of the TfL "Business Plan 2014", issued as part of the TfL Board papers for their meeting on 10 December 2014, the map TfL's Rail Transport Network at 2021 labelled the terminus as "Battersea Power Station", instead of just "Battersea" as had appeared on previous publications.[17] In December 2015 TfL confirmed that the name of the station will be "Battersea Power Station".[18]

In December 2018 the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced that the project will be delayed until September 2021 at the earliest, "to increase the station's capacity to cope with a higher number of passengers than originally forecast".[19]

By June 2019, major tunnelling and track works had been completed, with a engineering train running on the extension for the first time.[20] By February 2020, construction of the station was nearly complete, with platforms, escalators and the London Underground roundel installed on the station.[21]

References

  1. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Tunnelling for the Northern Line Extension to begin in March". London City Hall. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Northern line extension". Transport for London. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Northern Line extension to Battersea and Nine Elms given go-ahead". BBC News. 12 November 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  9. ^ Henderson, Jamie (23 June 2013). "Clapham Junction next for Northern Line says London Assembly member". Wandsworth Guardian. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  10. ^ "Northern Line Extension". Transport for London. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  11. ^ "Next Step for Northern Line Extension". London Borough of Wandsworth. 21 August 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  12. ^ "Battersea Station receives planning approval". Grimshaw Architects. 21 December 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  13. ^ "Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  14. ^ "Artworks announced for Battersea and Nine Elms Northern Line stations". Wandsworth Borough Council. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  15. ^ "Northern Line extension to Battersea and Nine Elms gets go ahead". London Evening Standard. 12 November 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  16. ^ "Tube on its way to Battersea as work starts on Northern line extension". Wandsworth Borough Council.
  17. ^ "Northern line extension". Transport for London.
  18. ^ "Battersea". Northern line extension. No. 5. Transport for London. December 2015. p. 2.
  19. ^ "Northern Line extension to Battersea Power Station faces 12 month delay in latest TfL setback". CityAM. 22 December 2018.
  20. ^ "Northern Line trains on track for Nine Elms". Wandsworth Borough Council. 14 June 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  21. ^ "Battersea Power Station signs unveiled at new Northern Line hub". Evening Standard. 20 February 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
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