Transport for LondonModernisation works to improve Maida Vale station
Improvement works will include restoration of heritage features
Works are due to start in September 2005 and be completed in April 2007.
Metronet Rail BCV, the company responsible for the maintenance and renewal of the Bakerloo, Central, Victoria and Waterloo & City lines, will undertake the works.
The modernisation works should see disruptions to passengers' journeys kept to a minimum, as the station will remain open except during the following weekends: February 11-12, March 18-19 and April 22-23 2006.
Improvement works will include:
- restoration of heritage features
- replacement of all CCTV cameras
- the installation of customer help points
- an enhanced public address system
- tactile strips on platforms and contrasting handrails for the partially sighted
- all cabling will be concealed
- ceilings will be either replaced or decorated
- new wall tiles will be fitted throughout the station.
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- TfL is investing £10bn over the next five years to improve and expand London's transport network, over half of that in the Tube
- Metronet Rail BCV is responsible for the maintenance and renewal of the Bakerloo, Central, Victoria and Waterloo & City lines
- Maida Vale station first opened 6 June 1915
- Maida Vale station counts 5,750 daily commuters
- Maida Vale was the first London station to have all-female staff
- When it opened there were two ticket collectors, two porters, two booking clerks and two relief ticket collector-booking clerks
- The Bakerloo line runs for 23 km from Elephant & Castle in the south to Harrow & Wealdstone in the north
- The line was opened in stages between 1906 and 1915
