Transport for London is continuing to upgrade a tube station in London, it has been announced.

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin made a visit to Victoria tube station yesterday, 07 January, to see progress being made on £700 million worth of upgrades.

The project is due to be completed in 2018 and aims to ease congestion at the station, while also improving accessibility.

In addition, a new underground northern ticket hall at the junction of Bressenden Place and Victoria Street will open later in 2016.

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Other features include:

• A larger southern ticket hall

• Nine new escalators

• A new interchange tunnel connecting the two ticket halls

• New lifts increasing step free access.

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: "A transformed Victoria will be a world-class hub ensuring quicker, easier journeys for passengers in London and the millions of people across the south of England who travel into the station.

"Carrying out this immense project while millions of people a week pass through this station is an impressive feat of engineering and showcases exactly the sort of high-level skills helping transform our transport network across the country."

(LM/JP)