Farringdon footbridge work flying along

Network Rail’s contractors have been making good progress installing a new passenger footbridge at Farringdon station.

Britain’s biggest mobile crane – capable of lifting 800-tonnes – was brought in to lower into place the final prefabricated section this last weekend after two earlier successful crane lifts in January and February.

The footbridge will be open in time for the closure of the Thameslink route branch line to Barbican and Moorgate.

The bridge has two spans instead of one to better cope with the number of people expected to interchange between Thameslink route trains on one side of the station and the Tube, which still runs to Barbican and Moorgate, on the other.

Easy does it: A section of the preassembled footbridge is brought in by crane