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That reminds me, I was at Guelph Central two nights ago, and they put this gate in at the east end of the existing platform, which I found curious. It wasn't locked. Any insights?
They've shifted the stopping position of the trains west along the north platform. The gate will be accompanied by signage indicating as much.
The stopping position was moved west to enable operators to see the new signals at the Conti control point visible in the image.
They’re going to shift the platform westward as other posters have mentioned.
The north platform was extended across the bridge in the 2011 renovation, so the north side stairs have always connected directly to the platform regardless of it being relocated.
I walked across Wyndham bridge several times over the years and the north stairs were open then but can't recall when they closed it. Both south stairs were blocked off even with the platform in place then. On one of my last few trips to the station, did some shooting from the bridge platform.
If I'm around the area, I can take a look and perhaps some pictures, but I don't know too much just from looking as I'm not an expert.
This thread from Twitter is dated December 30th, 2023. Signalling work is advancing well, and the space for the new track is coming along. Since then, I am not sure how much work has occurred. I assume next steps are sub-base construction like gravel where the future track will go, and track laying itself (or maybe panel track delivery to the site). Probably lots of signalling work to do still.
It will require work for the switches at 2 separate locations unless the plan to have the north track as a through with the south being a stub which I don't seeing that happening.
Both tracks will be through tracks at West Harbour.
Not sure why they are going that far east as the 4-track interlock block is a short distance to the east of Islington with all four tracks in place with block working signals. There is enough room from the interlock to Islington to spread the tracks apart for two tracks to use the two tunnels and two of the three tracks currently under Islington Overpass. Since you already had three tracks under Islington, I found it odd that they need to build two extra tracks under the 401/409 unless they were looking at having five tracks at this point to the airport cut off with two being used for UPX only.
