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Posted by Rail Blue on Thu Oct 28 21:13:45 2004, in response to Re: London's five-year plan, posted by Max Roberts on Fri Oct 22 07:10:52 2004. ELL looks like a bit of a hopeless case in trying to find a role for it. Ironically, it is in a part of London which is already full of orbital routes. A cheap extension to Dalston would have put a few extra stations on the map, but in a part of London that is short of radial links. Throwing more money at the problem doesn't seem to help in any way. Its not even obvious how the DLR could absorb the line.Easy - make it a DLR loop (existing line to Bank, then Liverpool St, Shoreditch, Hoxton, Haggerston, Dalston, Hackney Cen, Homerton, Hackney Wick, Stratford Intl, then the proposed DLR route to Canning Town). This would double the capacity between Canning Town and the City, making BOTH Dagenham Dock and Thamesmead (via the TGB) possible. And everyone gets a ride into the City, and everyone is happy. Next challenge: a West End terminal for the DLR. Maybe a Chelsea-Hackney tube should be pushed higher up the list of priorities. Trouble is, finding a temporary southern destination, because the Victoria-Kings Cross section will be expensive, and you really don't want to discharge all of these passengers at Kings Cross, where it is already mayhem. The Southern bit is easy. It would take over the District to Wimbledon. There, you'd want to get it outside the South-Western tracks (basically a dive-under for the SB - this might mean taking the Sutton loop platform, so that line might need incorporating too). There are six tracks through Raynes Park station, so it'd take the outer two. The destinations would therefore be Chessington and Epsom (Leatherhead, Guildford, Dorking, Horsham etc). Why King's Cross? It'd be far better to run on a Fleet Line type alignment from Charing X to the City, then it could either terminate or go to Shenfield (which is becoming rather a "Morningotn Crescent"). A temporary London terminus is already there at Charing X. |
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