The Northern line extension opened today

At 5:28am this morning, the first paying passengers caught their first train on the Northern line extension at Battersea.The extension, which has been under construction since November 2015, links the new developments at Battersea Power Station with the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line, with an intermediate station at Nine Elms. To reduce crowding at Kennington as more people will be swapping between the Bank and Charing Cross branches, four additional side passages were built.
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