I have been on holiday from work this week
I did go up to London yesterday for a visit to a museum and a general day out, looking that the work done so far in the blockade of the H&C lines -
LUL▸ new east bound track and aluminum conrail laid through Royal Oak, westbound old steel conrail stripped out, on the old taxi ramp the concrete decking stripped off, the old canopy over 15 /16 stripped off just leaving the steel skeleton the redundant stair way to the old Bishops Bridge Road station entrance stripped. Pile driving for the Crossrail portal was in progress between Porchester Rd Bridge (Royal Oak Stn) and Subway Jcn, work is cracking on a pace.
Platforms 13 -16 at Paddington had a very rural feel to them especially at quieter times of the day, with the change to the Circle Line and now the demolition of the remains of the old Bishops Bridge Stn that rural feeling has now gone