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Tottenham Court Road Station

Tottenham Court Road Underground station is being completely redeveloped as part of TfL’s programme to transform the Tube. The £1bn transformation of Tottenham Court Road will be the biggest transport investment in the West End for decades, providing congestion relief, delivering a bigger ticket hall, additional escalators, step-free access, and interchange with Crossrail services.

Built over a century ago as two separate Tube stations, Tottenham Court Road was not designed to cope with the almost 150,000 passenger journeys that are now made through the station every day. With the expected rise in passenger numbers interchanging between London Underground services and Crossrail in 2018, the existing station is being upgraded to meet the expected rise in demand for this key central London station for years to come.

In addition to the new upgrade of the existing station Crossrail are building a new ticket hall at Dean Street which will provide access to the western end of the Crossrail platforms, almost 25 metres below Soho.

Gallery - artists impression of Tottenham Court Road station

Progress and next steps:

London Underground and Crossrail are working closely to deliver the station’s transformation. Work on the eastern ticket hall is already well under way. London Underground's contractor, Vinci BAM Nuttall JV, has completed the piling for a new Northern Line escalator box and Charing Cross Road has now been diverted around the back of Centre Point to create a worksite large enough to construct the new ticket hall under Charing Cross Road.

Adjacent to the Northern Line tunnels and Charing Cross Road, the new escalator shaft is nearly 30m-deep and will provide a much needed additional access to the Northern Line.

Work to replace the extensive utilities beneath Oxford Street was completed in November 2010 ahead of schedule. Some of the utilites dated back to the early 1800s and it was vital to replace or strengthen each major utility prior to tunnelling works.

During June and July 2011, 11 large plunge columns have been constructed at Tottenham Court Road. The largest piling rig operating in Europe was used in the project to sink the deepest piles ever constructed in the UK. The columns will eventually support a new private development above the station, on the west side of Charing Cross Road.

For Crossrail's western ticket hall, all the buildings required have been succesfully demolished in the area bounded by Dean Street, Diadem Court, Great Chapel Street and Oxford Street. Balfour Beatty Morgan Vinci Joint Venture (BBMV) has been appointed as the contractor to build the station box for the western ticket hall and has commenced the piling operations. BBMV have constructed 39 bored piles on site to support the station and the private development above. They are also well under way with the construction of the ticket hall box structure using a method called diapgragm wall piling.

The station platform tunnels will be bored out by tunnel boring machine (TBM). The two TBMs for the western drive will be launched from Royal Oak in Spring 2012. The two TBMs are likely to reach the Tottenham Court Road area by late 2012/early 2013.

London Underground's station upgrade is expected to be completed in 2016. Crossrail services are expected to start operating in 2018.

Grout Shafts

Balfour Ferrovial Keir Joint Venture (BFK) have started utility diversions in Soho Square to facilitate the construction of four grout shaft in the roadways. Compensation Grout Shafts are used to protect buildings from the potential effects of ground settlement during tunnelling. BFK held an exhibition in Soho Square on 18 August 2011 to explain the works that will be undertaken for the grout shafts. The exhibition panels can be downloaded here: Download Soho Square Grout Shaft Exhibition August 2011

Utility works for the grout shaft in Sheraton Street has been completed and the shaft is currently under construction with a sixth shaft planned in Goslett Yard in due course.

Information

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Further information about the upgrade of the existing Tottenham Court Road London Underground station are available at www.tfl.gov.uk/tcr