Battersea Power Station tube station

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Battersea Power Station
Location of Battersea Power Station in Greater London
Location Battersea
Local authority London Borough of Wandsworth
Managed by London Underground
Owner Transport for London
Number of platforms2
AccessibleYes
Fare zone 1
OSI Battersea Park National Rail logo.svg Overground roundel (no text).svg Queenstown Road National Rail logo.svg
London Underground annual entry and exit
2018Not opened [1]
2019Not opened [2]
2020Not opened [3]
2021Increase2.svg 2.18 million [4]
2022Increase2.svg 8.65 million [5]
Key dates
20 September 2021Opened
Other information
WGS84 51°28′46″N0°08′31″W / 51.47950°N 0.14200°W / 51.47950; -0.14200
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Battersea Power Station is a London Underground station in Battersea, London, which forms the terminus of the Northern line extension to Battersea.

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Partially funded by the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, [6] the station serves the redevelopment site, as well as Battersea itself. The station is located on Battersea Park Road, close to Battersea Park railway station and a short walking distance from Queenstown Road railway station, forming an out-of-station interchange with both of them. The line and station opened on 20 September 2021. [7] It is the only station on the London Underground network to include the word 'station' in its name. [8]

Services

The station is located in Zone 1, and is 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 only run via Charing Cross as the branch is an extension off the Kennington loop. [9]

The station serves as the terminus for the new branch, with a crossover junction prior to the station allowing trains to terminate in either platform. Overrun tunnels underneath Battersea Dogs & Cats Home were proposed, [10] however these were omitted to save money. [11] Provision has been made for a possible future extension to Clapham Junction railway station. [12] The station also serves as an out-of-station interchange with Battersea Park railway station. [13]

Service pattern

Connections

London Buses routes 156, 344 and 436 serve the station. [15]

Design

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Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset by Alexandre da Cunha

The station was designed and built by a joint venture between Laing O'Rourke and Ferrovial Agroman, [16] [17] with station entrance architecture by Grimshaw. [18] The station design allows for future installation of platform screen doors. [19] [20]

Art on the Underground commissioned the artist Alexandre da Cunha to install a permanent piece of artwork in the ticket hall of the station: a 100 m (330 ft) kinetic sculpture, using a rotating billboard entitled Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset. [21] [22] In October 2023, a Labyrinth by artist Mark Wallinger was installed at the station, marking 10 years of the artworks and the 160th anniversary of the London Underground. [23]

History

Construction

The station was given final approval by the Secretary of State for Transport in November 2014, [24] before construction began in 2015, with completion originally scheduled for 2020. [25] Tunnelling of the Northern line extension 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 Transport for London (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. [26] In December 2015, TfL confirmed that the name of the station will be "Battersea Power Station". [27] This means that it is the only station on the Underground to have the word "station" in its official name. There has been some confusion as to whether to construct the name as "Battersea Power (S/s)tation" or "Battersea Power Station station". [28]

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Platforms in the completed station

In December 2018, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced that the project would 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". [29]

By June 2019, major tunnelling and track works had been completed, with an engineering train running on the extension for the first time. [30] By February 2020, construction of the station was nearly complete, with platforms, escalators and the London Underground roundel installed on the station. [31] The first London Underground train ran onto the extension over the 2020 Christmas period, marking the start of the signal testing period. [32]

Opening

The station opened on 20 September 2021. [33]

In September 2022, TfL announced that over 5 million trips had been made on the extension since opening, with an average of 80,000 trips a week at Battersea Power Station. [34] Battersea Power Station noted that demand will increase further, as the site reopened as an office and retail complex in October 2022. [34] TfL estimate that demand could increase to 10 million a year by 2024/25. [35]

In November 2022, Battersea Power Station was awarded the Architects' Journal Architecture Award for Infrastructure and Transport, with the station canopy singled out for special praise by the judges. [36]

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