Battersea Power Station

Address: Kirtling St, Nine Elms, London SW11 8AL
Opened: 20th September 2021
Station Code: BAT
Fare Zone: 1

London Underground Line(s) Served:

Northern Line (Charing Cross Branch)

Service Pattern(s):

8 Trains Per Hour to High Barnet
2 Trains Per Hour to Mill Hill East

Interchange(s)

OSI: National Rail

Battersea Park – 450 metres
Queenstown Road – 700 metres

Station History

Approval for an Underground station as part of the Battersea Park redevelopment was granted by the Secretary of State for Transport in November 2014.

Construction of Battersea Power Station and its connection to the network, partly funded by the developers of the surrounding area began in 2015.

The station itself is a joint design and construction venture between Laing O’Rourke, Ferrovial Agroman and Grimshaw, with the latter responsible for the station entrance.

Tunnelling work to connect the station to the Northern Line at Kennington saw two tunnel-boring machines depart from the Battersea site in March 2017.

Due to the desire of the Mayor of London to ‘increase the station’s capacity to cope with a higher number of passengers than originally forecast’, the project completion was delayed until September 2021 ‘at the earliest’.

Completion of tunnelling and associated trackwork was completed in June 2019, with the station, its platforms and escalators nearing completion in February 2020. The first train ran over the new extension during the 2020 Christmas engineering period, which marked the start of signal and infrastructure testing.

Following the completion of testing, the station was opened for traffic on 20th September 2021.

Wandsworth Council have repeatedly expressed their desire for London Underground to extend the Northern Line to Clapham Junction and, although no funding or plas have yet been released, active provision for the extension was included in Battersea Power Station’s construction.