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New design from Crossrail.

The new and re-worked design for the exterior of Ealing Broadway station looks better to me. It appears to be more 'open' and spacious than the first rather mean-looking and somehow cheap-feeling look of the frontage. I'd like to study the drawings more. I woner if there are models of this new design?

Gerry Tan ● 4320d11 Comments

Without question I would say.

Tony Colliver ● 4315d

"to the design of buildings owned by private companies!"Ealing Broadway is presumably ultimately owned by Network Rail, prop. the taxpayer.  Does it pass to TfL (prop. the taxpayer) on Crossrail completion, do we know?And yes, constant whinging about the council and pointless negativity about Crossrail can stop now, as far as I'm concerned.  We get the message, OK?

Thomas Barry ● 4316d

BTW, does anybody know if an escalator is actually more efficient than moving people up and down than stairs?

Paul James ● 4317d

Me too, but I wish people would stop blaming everything on councils, from untidy streets caused by litter louts to the design of buildings owned by private companies!

Paul James ● 4317d

Thanks Paul for posting this CrossRail link.I'm still concerned that there aren't going to be any escalators. Another entrance/exit on the Uxbridge would have been very convenient too.

Gerry Tan ● 4317d

> But that is what we have come to expect from such weak and limited imaginations of our elected brethren and some less than sparkling officers.Eh?"The new proposals for the station, designed by Bennetts Associates Architects"http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/articles/improved-ealing-broadway-station-designs-revealed

Paul James ● 4317d

Why stopping at greenford broadway and not carry on to Southall? Or even to Hayes? This is especially so considering the redevelopment of the Southall gas works ?  the south part of Greenford has already the other branch of the Central line going to Northolt and Rayners Lane as well as the BR Greenford Line that will stop at West Ealing.

Rosa Popham ● 4318d

Well the people of Ealing voted and will get what they deserve.There is no-one else to blame.The latest designs are still poor and myopic. But that is what we have come to expect from such weak and limited imaginations of our elected brethren and some less than sparkling officers.But the designs are also constrained.  With the western boroughs local population expected to rise by 50% plus over the next 15 years, it is quite likely that the District line or the Central line may well be extended underground as the main line will increasingly be utilised for the more distant destinations.Projections already indicate that the Crossrail trains even with 12 cars will be full by Slough and will not offer any more than standing room from Ealing Broadway.Timetables and capacity will be reduced on the existing Paddington services over shared line sections. So capacity could actually drop by 20% within days of the Crossrail services commencing.So it makes sense for the District line to project underground to West Ealing Hanwell and Greenford and the Central line to Norwood Green, Brentford and Kew.Thus E B Stn has to leave space for the probable sites for the lines to go Underground.The District would be a big bore tube rather than cut and cover, same as the Crossrail and central line standard tube.Haven Green would have to be the construction site for some years.For some inexplicable reason, none of this gets openly discussed but the key reason that the station development is so poor is that they know it is likely to be a temporary structure lasting no more than 25 years.

Anthony Waller ● 4320d

Well said Maritn.I despair. I don't think they get that if this is not done right this time round, it will be a generation or so before there is funds available for it to be re-visited.The capacity needs to be seriously increased with adequate infrastucture such as escalators available (lifts are proven to break down time and again). I commute every day through that station and can tell you that it is CARNAGE, especially in the evenings when you get a District, Central and main line train all arrive at the same time (happens more often than you think). Anyone else unsurprised that the worm that is Julian Bell is trying to claim credit for what the twit feels is a success ?

Bud Richards ● 4320d

Indeed it would be good to relocate the plethora of buses, bus stops and dare I say it, passengers (I am one..) from the green so that it can become a haven once more.

Philip Coe ● 4320d

Does not effect the lost opportunity for a comprehensive redeveloped transport inter-change with a pedestrian below ground (cut and cover) walk way to a new bus platform spanning the railway incorporating the current (private) car park and extending back to the bridge opposite the multi storey car park.

Martin C. Harris ● 4320d