DECEMBER 19 saw the start of Tube train trials on the two-mile (3.2km) Northern Line extension from Kennington to Battersea Power Station.
The first test journeys followed other milestones earlier in 2020 that saw the power supply connected to the rails and the signalling software commissioned, while a batterypowered engineering train was the first to travel through the tunnels in summer 2019.
The extension is due to be completed this autumn, with work now concentrated on fitting out the two new stations at Nine Elms and Battersea. It will be the first addition to the Northern line since the extension to Morden in 1926, and London Underground’s first major extension since the Jubilee Line in the late 1990s.
The new line is part of a wider regeneration of the area that is hoped to create 25,000 new jobs and see more than 20,000 new homes built.