Sunday, May 30, 2021
A couple of Sundays ago I took the tube from Bow Road to Paddington, partly to reacquaint myself with the Underground while it was quiet and partly because it was somewhere new to walk home from. I thought I might do something similar this Sunday but no, the station's closed as is the entire Hammersmith & City line and the vast majority of the District line. What's more, having checked the list of forthcoming line closures, Bow Road's going to be closed for 10 of the next 12 weekends as well.
| | H&C | District |
| 29/30/31 May | closed | closed (except West Ham - Upminster) |
| 5/6 Jun | closed | closed Earl's Court - Dagenham East |
| 12/13 Jun | closed | closed Tower Hill - Barking |
| 19/20 Jun | closed | closed Tower Hill - Barking |
| 26/27 Jun | closed W'chapel-Barking | closed Tower Hill - Barking |
| 3/4 Jul | closed | closed Tower Hill - Barking |
| 10/11 Jul | closed | closed Whitechapel - Barking |
| 17/18 Jul | closed | closed Tower Hill - Upminster |
| 24/25 Jul | | |
| 31 Jul/1 Aug | closed | closed (except Barking - Upminster) |
| 7/8 Aug | | |
| 14/15 Aug | closed | closed Tower Hill - Upminster |
| 21/22 Aug | closed | closed Tower Hill - West Ham |
It's all thanks to the much delayed Four Lines Modernisation plan, stages 6 & 7, building up to testing the new signalling system east of Stepney Green on the weekend of 13/14 August. It wouldn't surprise me if there's some Crossrail works in there too. These upgrades will be great when they're finished, but that's a heck of a lot of weekends of rail replacement buses and a busier than normal Central line, which isn't ideal during a post-lockdown summer.
...and although the weekend of 7/8 August looks clear at Bow Road, an unprecedented line closure is scheduled for Wednesday 4th August to Thursday 12th August (yes you read that right). The District line will be closed between Earl's Court and Aldgate East for track replacement and the realignment of points, resulting in the closure of nine stations for nine days, so watch out for the publicity on that.
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