Elizabeth Line's Tottenham Court Road Station Opens

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Bond Street's Elizabeth Line Station Finally Opens

  Bond Street Station, Mayfair, City of Westminster, London, UKTransport for London

  

  Starts 10/24/2022CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE3.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the first Elizabeth line services arrived at the station at 05.47" on Monday, 24th October.

  London's Bond Street station opened to Elizabeth Line services, closing out the last and most delayed piece of the Crossrail project.

  £19B

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• Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Jubilee Line Platforms Open at Westminster Underground

  Westminster Underground Station, London, United Kingdom

  

  Starts 12/22/1999CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE26.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Jubilee line platforms were opened on 22 December 1999."

  The deep-level Jubilee line platforms at Westminster Underground opened, completing London's £3.5bn Jubilee Line Extension after engineers dug a 39-metre station box beside the Thames without disturbing Big Ben's foundations.

  £3.5B

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Great Portland Estates Completes 18 Hanover Square

  18 Hanover Square, Mayfair, London, UKGreat Portland Estates

  

  Starts 12/31/2020ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCE5.7 years agoEstimated: the 17 September 2020 practical completion Buildington^[3] records is for the neighbouring Grade II* listed 20 Hanover Square, not 18 Hanover Square. GPE's^[2] release of 12 May 2021 says the final office letting came 'less than six months after practical completion', putting 18 Hanover Square's completion after mid-November 2020, so the pin takes the end of that quarter. No source gives the day.

  Great Portland Estates finishes its four-building Hanover Square scheme in Mayfair, built directly above the new Bond Street Elizabeth Line station's eastern ticket hall.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  London's Docklands Light Railway Opens

  Poplar, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, United Kingdom

  

  Starts 08/31/1987CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE39.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "opened on 31 August 1987 with 11 trains servicing 15 stations".

  The driverless Docklands Light Railway opens to passengers, giving London's redeveloping docklands a low-cost automated metro built largely on disused rail viaducts.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Metro's D Line Subway Extension Opens Its First Three Stations

  Wilshire/La Cienega station, Wilshire Blvd at La Cienega Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

  

  Starts 05/08/2026CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE138 days agoMetro's^[1] own project page says of Section 1, "This Opened on May 8, 2026."

  LA Metro opened Section 1 of the D Line subway extension, carrying the Wilshire Boulevard subway 3.9 miles west of Wilshire/Western to new stations at La Brea, Fairfax and La Cienega. It is the line's first extension since 1996 and the first of three sections Metro wants running before the 2028 Olympics.

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Circus West Village, Phase One of Battersea Power Station, Completes

  Circus West Village, Battersea Power Station, Electric Boulevard, Nine Elms, London SW11 8DD, United Kingdom

  

  Starts 09/30/2017ESTIMATED67% CONFIDENCE9.0 years agoEstimated: SimpsonHaugh's^[2] project data gives completion as September 2017 (Buro Happold^[3] gives only the year), and no day is published, so the month's last day stands in.

  Circus West Village, the first completed phase of London's Battersea Power Station regeneration designed by SimpsonHaugh and built by Carillion, wrapped up as the scheme's opening residential and retail quarter.

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• Transport09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Sydney Metro West Opens

  Sydney MetroParramatta, New South Wales

  Starts 12/31/2032DELAYED4 years late63% CONFIDENCEin 6.3 yearsSydney Metro’s^[2] own project overview targets "an opening date of 2032", a year rather than a day, so it sits at the end of that year.

  A driverless metro doubling rail capacity between Parramatta and the Sydney CBD. Estimated date.

  A$27B

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Eglinton Crosstown West Extension Opens to Renforth

  Renforth Drive at Eglinton Avenue West, Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaMetrolinx

  

  Starts 12/31/2031DELAYED8 years late40% CONFIDENCEin 5.3 yearsThe article says only that "The extension is expected to open in 2031", a year rather than a fixed day, so the pin sits on the last day of that year.^[1]

  The 9.2-kilometre westward extension of Line 5 Eglinton adds seven stations - four underground, two elevated and one in an open trench - ending at a trenched terminal at Renforth beside the eastern end of the Mississauga Transitway. Construction was estimated in 2026 at CA$3.97 billion, up from CA$2.47 billion a decade earlier.

  C$4B

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• Transport09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Auckland City Rail Link Opens

  Auckland, New Zealand

  

  Starts 11/01/2026SCHEDULED81% CONFIDENCEin 39 daysGiven as scheduled, per en.wikipedia.org^[1]: "…kland Transport and KiwiRail.[13] It is scheduled to open on 13 September 2026.[14] Initial proposal…"

  Twin 3.45 km tunnels turning Britomart from a dead-end terminus into a through station, doubling rail capacity. Estimated date.

  NZ$5.5B

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Sungei Bedok Opens, Joining the Thomson-East Coast and Downtown Lines

  Sungei Bedok, SingaporeLand Transport Authority

  

  Starts 12/31/2026DELAYED2 years late40% CONFIDENCEin 99 daysThe article says the station "is now expected to commence passenger service in 2026", with LTA narrowing that to the second half of the year, so the day here stands for that window.^[1]

  Sungei Bedok opens as the terminus of Thomson-East Coast Line Stage 5 and of the Downtown Line 3 extension, making it the interchange between the two lines. It sits above the East Coast Integrated Depot, the world's first depot stacking three rail lines and a bus depot on one site, and opens alongside Bedok South and Xilin stations.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  East Indian Railway Opens the New Howrah Station Building

  Howrah Junction railway station, Howrah, West Bengal 711101, IndiaBengal-Nagpur Railway

  

  Starts 12/01/1905CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE120.8 years agoFIBIwiki's history of the station states the new building "was brought into service on 1 December 1905," a specific documented date independent of the documentary.^[1]

  The East Indian Railway brought its new Howrah terminus, designed by Halsey Ricardo, into service across the Hooghly from Kolkata, replacing the original 1854 station building. Its North Wing's six platforms were built to absorb traffic that had grown sharply since the Bengal-Nagpur Railway opened its Calcutta Extension Line into Howrah in 1900.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Four Rebuilt Red Line Stations Open on Chicago's North Side

  Lawrence to Bryn Mawr, Uptown and Edgewater, Chicago, IllinoisChicago Transit Authority

  

  Starts 07/20/2025CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoThe CTA's announcement says "four fully reconstructed Red Line stations in Edgewater and Uptown will open on Sunday, July 20, 2025".^[1]

  The Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn and Bryn Mawr stations reopened fully accessible, with elevators and escalators at main entrances, wider platforms, translucent overhead canopies and new public artwork. They sit on 1.3 miles of new track structure, bridges and viaducts built between Lawrence and Bryn Mawr under the CTA's $2.1 billion Red and Purple Modernization Phase One project.

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