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The "New Works Programme, 1935 – 1940" was the major investment programme delivered by the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB), commonly known as London Transport, which had been created in 1933 to coordinate underground train, tram, trolleybus and bus services in the capital and the surrounding areas. The programme was to develop many aspects of the public transport services run by the LPTB and the suburban rail services of the Great Western Railway (GWR) and London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). The investment was largely backed by government assistance as well as by the issuing of financial bonds and was estimated to cost £42,286,000 in 1936〔LPTB submission to Parliament, 〕(approximately £ today). ==London Underground== The Programme saw major reconstructions of many central area Underground stations, with escalators being installed to replace lifts as well as extensions of several tube lines, and connection to and electrification of a number of suburban lines. These included: *Metropolitan line (''The majority of projects were initially planned by the Metropolitan Railway, the owner of the line prior to absorption into the LPTB in 1933.'') * *provision of additional parallel tracks between and * *electrification of the tracks from Rickmansworth to and * *installation of colourlight signals on the line between Rickmansworth and Aylesbury and platform extensions for stations on this stretch of the line *Bakerloo line * *new tunnels to form a branch from to where they connected with and took over the realigned slow tracks of the Metropolitan line to and the branch * *new Bakerloo line stations at and between and Baker Street to replace three closing stations on the Metropolitan line. *Northern line (The Northern Heights Plan) * *transfer of the Metropolitan line's Great Northern & City (GN&C) branch to Northern line operation * *connection of the GN&C branch at to the LNER's line to Edgware, High Barnet and Alexandra Palace * *construction of new tunnels from (then Highgate) to and to connect to the and branches. * *extension from Edgware to *Central line * * relining of the tunnels and lengthening of station platforms between and to increase speeds and allow longer trains * * replacement of the line's non-standard track power supply with the Underground's normal fourth rail system * * western extension from to connect to and take over the GWR's suburban line to * * eastern extension from Liverpool Street via to connect to and take over the LNER's lines to , and *Rolling stock * *design and construction of a new fleet of trains, the 1938 stock, to operate on the Central line and Northern line extensions. * *Further Conversion of existing locomotive hauled "Dreadnaught" coaches to Electric Working for the newly electrified Metropolitan Mainline to Aylesbury. Extra "T" stock driving motor coaches had been constructed to allow for this. This scheme was abandoned and later new stock was designed. When rolled out, this was to be the A60 stock. * *Design and construction of a new fleet of trains for the Hammersmith and City Line,the "O" stock * *Provision of similar new trains for the Metropolitan line to Uxbridge, the "P" stock, * *Conversion of existing hand worked door stock to air-door operation and the construction of some new stock for the District line, the "Q" stock programme. *Infrastructure * *improvements to the power supply system from Lots Road Power Station * *improvements to and rebuilding of many busy central area stations including the installation of escalators to replace lifts 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Works Programme」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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