Transport bosses have offered assurances on improvement works at Putney station.

The council has been pressing Network Rail and South West Trains to complete long-awaited improvements to services and the station. Now they have given assurances the station’s new lifts will be available by September 18 and fully-operational by the end of October.

Works to relocate the stations’ ticket barriers and the installation of digital information screens should be completed within the next two weeks.

Commitment has also been given to the refurbishment of platform one’s canopy, relocation of the ticket office and work on the station’s facade, which should start in January.

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Transport spokesman, Councillor Jonathan Cook, said: “The improvement works at Putney Station feel like they’ve taken an eternity. They ground to a halt earlier in the summer, because, we were later told, there were technical issues that needed addressing.

“We left rail bosses under no illusion that we felt these delays were not acceptable. The station improvements are long overdue and should be completed without any further hold up."