2009-01-13
A Victoria Line Closure Calendar
Another year, and another set of Victoria line closures are announced. Unlike the last two years, there aren’t any evening early closures; the major works needed for the new rolling stock (due to be rolled out during the next three years) are presumably done now. However, there’s still more work to come:
The work is the first part of an eight-year overhaul of the line costing hundreds of millions of pounds, which will include new signalling, trains and refurbished stations.
According to a Transport for London (TfL) survey, three quarters of the 100 Waltham Forest passengers asked said the distress caused by engineering works is “worth the long term gains” in terms of getting better quality services.
So, when are the works? TfL publish a PDF of track closures for the forthcoming closures, but they also push them to whatever feed the tubevictoria twitter bot follows. When I saw that update today, I also copied the events over to the Google calendar of closures I’ve been maintaining for a while.
However, Google don’t exactly make it easy to find out that, as well as an embeddable HTML widget, they also provide XML and ICS feeds, the latter suitable for import into Apple’s iCal, Outlook and various other web calendaring applications. So I thought I’d mention them here.
At some point, I might try and work on parsing the PDF (and its twin detailing station closures) and update a single calendar file for all lines, but for now, it’s edited manually, so please don’t rely on it.
