Custom House DLR Escalators

Hello. I see these regularly. I think it has taken about two years of work so far at the Custom House station to get to this stage, maybe they will manage to cut the plastic off them by the end of the year.

I heard they were paid for by the Olympics because some things will be held in the Excel building there. Of course, the Custom House station is about to be all knocked down and rebuilt for the Crossrail, I don't know how these escalators fit in with that work or if they will have to be taken out again.

I do remember a few years ago when Selfridges shop in Oxford Street put in six floors of escalators over one weekend.

I would have thought that they were replacing existing escalators, no?

Bear in mind that when working on an active railway, you are extremely limited on what you can do. You wouldn't want building materials to fall on to the tracks and derail a train. Also, at this site they can't even do any work in the 2 hours per night of system shutdown due to it being a residential area.

The Western entrance had to be rebuilt first, along with the extensions for the 3 car project, otherwise the station would simply have been closed for the work to be carried out. Not particularly helpful for a major exhibition centre really.

It does worry me that people keep thinking that you just drop ready-made new bits into the railway, plug them in then leave them. It isn't like buying a new kettle.

Wouldn't it have made sense to have had the escalators at the other end on the new section? that seems less of a walk for people going to Excel.

Will Custom House station stay the same as it is now once Cross Rail work starts? from what I understood the entrance to the station will be in a totally different place across the road from the current site! (where a former pub now stands).

Dan

The DLR station will stay the same, but the former NLL station will be rebuilt with an island platform. Plans and drawings are on the crossrail site www.crossrail.co.uk/route/stations/custom-house/#content

Sorry yes true it is about the same.... I just thought the old exit would be subject to changes with Crossrail.

Dan

The new escalators at Custom House station went into service last week .
Less than a week later they have already packed up .
There are signs up asking the public to use them as a walking stairway due to a fault.
As each escalator cost over a million pound to install, one would have thought that they would have lasted a little bit longer than a week