London re-shapes around new rail schemes

15 May 2013

Metroland saw housing development fund the Metropolitan Railway

Crossrail stations will be on a larger scale while surface buildings like Canary Wharf will be urban landmarks.

Platforms will be wider and easier to move around in than anything previously seen in London.

HS2’s latest proposals for rebuilding Euston with new westward extension – but would a new underground station be better?

D espite having historically one of the most comprehensive of the world’s urban and commuter rail systems, London has been playing catch up to Paris, and indeed other cities with S-Bahn-type railways, on its rail network development. While Paris has a mature cross city rail network in the form of its five RER lines, and is now moving on to developing its Grand Paris Express network of orbital super metro lines, London is trying to do both at once, and coming from a long way...

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