Historical version 1 of Jubilee Line Extension (view current version)
The Jubilee Line Extension opened in late 1999, serving 11 new stations between Stratford and Green Park, enabling trains to run from Stanmore through to Stratford via Docklands. It crosses the River Thames 4 times.
The extension was opened in stages. The first stage was the section from Stratford to North Greenwich in East London. This opened to serve the Millennium Dome. The second stage from there to | Waterloo opened on Fri 17 Sep 1999, with trains reversing at Bermondsey until the platforms at Waterloo were ready for passengers. London Bridge and Southwark were also opened slightly after the other stations.
Trains operated the whole section from Sat 20 Nov but Westminster station was not ready for some time after this.
The Jubilee Line extension was one of London's biggest engineering projects to date and cost over �3.5 billion, making it one of the most expensive projects in the world at over �4 million per metre of its 16km length.
One of the unusual features of the extension is that all the new stations have platform edge doors which prevent wind from the piston effect of trains blowing through the station.
(from Tubeprune)The architecture of the new stations has been critically acclaimed with several designed by Sir Norman Foster.
(from Tubeprune)The extension serves the following stations:
- [Westminster Station | Westminster]
- [Waterloo Station | Waterloo]
- [Southwark Station | Southwark]
- [London Bridge Station | London Bridge]
- [Bermondsey Station | Bermondsey]
- [Canada Water Station | Canada Water]
- [Canary Wharf Station | Canary Wharf]
- [North Greenwich Station | North Greenwich]
- [Canning Town Station | Canning Town]
- [West Ham Station | West Ham]
- [Stratford Station | Stratford]