RECONSTRUCTION work is well under way at Dalston station to transform it into a step-free access to the northern extension of London Overground’s modernised East London Line which is due for completion by June 2010.

This part of the line uses former North London Railway tracks from Broad Street which closed in 1985/6.

The southern extension of the line to New Cross/New Cross Gate, Crystal Palace and West Croydon should also be finished in June 2010, and it is hoped that there will be a further extension from Dalston Junction to Highbury and Islington by the following February. The East London Line extension is seen as crucial to support the regeneration of east London.