Transport for London has completed the seven-year upgrade of Bank Underground station, which has created greater capacity, easier interchange between lines, and step-free access to the Northern Line for the first time.
Construction began on the £700 million project in 2016, and culminated with this week’s official opening of a street-level entrance onto Cannon Street, with a new ticket hall, six escalators and lifts.
This follows the unveiling of a new station entrance at the Bloomberg building in 2018, and the opening of a new southbound Northern Line platform and customer concourse in May 2022.
In October last year work was also completed on the creation of more direct interchange routes between the Northern Line and DLR, and between the Northern and Central Lines, which TfL said has “shaved up to nine minutes off journey times for some customers”.
Wayfinding has also been improved, and “a new platform hump has been installed on the northbound Northern line platform and the newly constructed southbound Northern line platform has been raised to provide level access between the train and the platform”.
TfL said that customers make more than 100,000 interchanges at the interlinked Bank and Monument stations on a typical weekday, with the two stations being served by five Underground Lines and the DLR.
Bank now has a total of 31 escalators – the most of any station on the Tube network, and the two stations combined now have five ticket halls, nine lifts and ten platforms.
