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Posted by Fytton on Fri Oct 22 10:47:36 2004, in response to Re: London's five-year plan, posted by Max Roberts on Fri Oct 22 10:32:56 2004. "2) Thameslink 2000 ....... Also, a full service from London Bridge via Thameslink during peak hours should be a priority."Absolutely true. But that is precisely where Thameslink 2000's problem lies - the lack of capacity, and conflicting movements, over the section between Blackfriars and New Cross Gate, through Metropolitan Junction, Borough Market Junction, London Bridge station, and the junctions between the ex-South Eastern and ex-Brighton main lines south of London Bridge. Various expensive grade-separation projects are needed, and it's very difficult to find room for the crucial one at Borough Market Junction. For some reason we're not allowed to knock down Southwark Cathedral..... "4) The Northern Heights project needs to be reactivated from Highgate to Moorgate. Plenty of capacity for this once Thameslink 2000 is activated, and the projected overcrowding on the Northern Line City and High Barnet branches would be eradicated." Is the trackbed from East Finchley through Highgate (high level) to Finsbury Park still intact, or has any of it been built over? Here the main problem would be the crossing over the East Coast Main Line at Finsbury Park. The original 1935-40 plan envisaged high-level platforms above the main line ones at Finsbury Park station, and that is probably what would need to be tried again. Not an ideal interchange with the Piccadilly and Victoria line platforms, though, which are underground below the main lines at that point. (London's Broadway Junction ENY begins to emerge....) Admittedly, the alternative interchange with the Victoria Line at Highbury and Islington is good, a cross-platform one. Doesn't answer the point that the employment centre of gravity of London has been drifting westwards for many years, reducing the relevat level of need for travel to The City and increasing it towards The West End. |
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