TfL Rail
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Basic information | |
owner | Transport for London |
Concession and duration |
TfL Rail May 31, 2015–2023 Option until 2025 |
operator | MTR Corporation (Crossrail) Ltd |
statistics | |
fleet | 44 British Class 315 66 British Class 345 5 British Class 360 |
Train stations | 23 |
Main regions | Greater London , Berkshire , Buckinghamshire and Essex |
Secondary regions | |
website | |
tfl.gov.uk/modes/tfl-rail |
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TfL Rail is the current name of a London suburban railway that runs 14 stations on the Great Eastern Main Line from Liverpool Street Station in central London to Shenfield ( Borough of Brentwood ) and parts of the Great Western Main Line between Paddington Station and Reading in one S-Bahn -Similar clock served. TfL Rail is part of the future Elizabeth Line route from Shenfield to Reading and Heathrow Airport .
The Transport for London (TfL), the company has to operate the route MTR Corporation (Crossrail) Ltd commissioned which the Chinese company MTR Corporation , headquartered in Hong Kong.
history
In June 2013, TfL announced that Arriva , MTR Corporation , Keolis / Go-Ahead-Group and National Express Group had been shortlisted to bid for the operating license of the Crossrail project under construction.
In July 2014, TfL signed a contract with MTR for a term of eight years, with an option to extend for a further two years.
The MTR Corporation (Crossrail) Ltd was founded in May 2015 as a new railway company and took over the operation of the suburban route from Liverpool Street to Shenfield from the previous operator Abellio Greater Anglia on May 31, 2015 . 44 four-part British Class 315 electric multiple units were also taken over for operation under overhead contact lines with 25 kV 50 Hz.
Tfl Rail will merge with the Elizabeth Line , which is under construction , when its central section under central London, a 13 km long tunnel, opens. It is then linked several times with the London Underground .
Since November 2019, regional operations on the route from Reading to London have been gradually taken over by the Great Western Railway .
As a third, the central section is now to go into operation in isolation as Elizabeth Line for the first time in 2021, before all sections of the route are linked with one another
Appearance
The distinguishing feature of TfL Rail is the ring with crossbars, which is also known from other London means of transport, in the case of TfL Rail all in blue. The existing Class 315 trains were repainted in white / blue and signs according to TfL design were installed at the 14 stations along the route. In contrast to this, the new class 345 railcars are painted white and purple, the color code of the future Elizabeth Line (2018 plan).
Route network
TfL Rail operates 20 miles on the Great Eastern Main Line between Liverpool Street and Shenfield and 16 miles on part of the Great Western Main Line and the Heathrow Tunnel between Paddington, Heathrow and Reading. The future Elizabeth Line will also use this route, but will run in the tunnel between Liverpool Street and Stratford to connect the existing outer branch with the newly built central section of the route.
The train stations of TfL Rail are:
Surname | Tariff zone (s) | Administrative district | Umsteige- possibility |
managed by |
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Liverpool Street - Shenfield | ||||
Liverpool Street | 1 | City of London | Network Rail | |
Stratford | 2/3 | Newham | TfL Rail | |
Maryland | 3 | |||
Forest Gate | 3 | |||
Manor Park | 3/4 | |||
Ilford | 4th | Redbridge | ||
Seven Kings | 4th | |||
Goodmayes | 4th | |||
Chadwell Heath | 5 | Barking & Dagenham | ||
Romford | 6th | Havering | ||
Gidea Park | 6th | |||
Harold Wood | 6th | |||
Brentwood | 9 | Brentwood | ||
Shenfield | C. | Abellio Greater Anglia | ||
Paddington - Heathrow / Reading | ||||
Paddington | 1 | City of Westminster | HE | Network Rail |
Acton Main Line | 3 | Ealing | TfL Rail | |
Ealing Broadway | 3 | |||
West Ealing | 3 | |||
Hanwell | 4th | |||
Southall | 4th | |||
Hayes & Harlington | 5 | Hillingdon | ||
Heathrow Central (Terminals 2 & 3) |
6th | HE | Heathrow Express | |
Heathrow Terminal 4 | 6th | |||
West Drayton | 6th | TfL Rail | ||
Iver | - | Buckinghamshire | ||
Langley | - | Slough | ||
Slough | ||||
Burnham | - | TfL Rail | ||
Taplow | - | Buckinghamshire | ||
Maidenhead | - | Windsor and Maidenhead | ||
Twyford | - | Wokingham | ||
Reading | - | Reading | Network Rail |
TfL Rail also manages a train station that is not yet used by TfL Rail.
Surname | Tariff zone (s) | Administrative district | Umsteige- possibility |
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Abbey Wood | 4th | Greenwich |
Every station is manned from the first to the last train of the day.
Rolling stock
TfL Rail initially took over 44 four-part electric railcars of the British class 315 from the years 1980–1981. They have been slightly modernized inside and adapted to the TfL design on the outside. Since June 22, 2017, individual journeys have been made with the new class 345 multiple units intended for the Elizabeth Line. Due to the limited length of the platform in Liverpool Street station, these are initially only used in seven parts (total length approx. 160 m). With the start of operations through the Crossrail tunnel, they will be expanded to nine-part units with a total length of 205 meters.
Vehicles from TfL Rail | |||||||
model series | image | Type | Top speed | Trolleys per unit | number | Construction year | in action |
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British class 315 | Railcar ( electric ) | 120 km / h | 4th | 44 | 1980-1981 | 2015 until today | |
British class 345 | Railcar ( electric ) | 145 km / h | 7 (later 9) |
66 | 2015-2018 | since June 2017 | |
British class 360 | Railcar ( electric ) | 160 km / h | 5 | 5 | 2002-2005 | since 2018 |
Web links
- TfL Rail website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/liverpool-street-romford-shenfield.pdf (English)
- ^ First Elizabeth Line train enters service in East London and Essex. Rail Technology Magazine., June 23, 2017, accessed July 11, 2017 .