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Posted by Rail Blue on Fri Sep 8 08:59:19 2006, in response to Re: London Overground, posted by David Fairthorne on Thu Sep 7 15:27:44 2006. You don't say if your service plan would run all day (during the peaks and between the peaks), but I guess it would.Yes, it would. I suggest that one of the more useful routes runs from Victoria to London Bridge via Crystal Palace. All that achieves is a rather lengthy one seat ride to London Bridge from Streatham Hill. Balham has the Northern Line, and people from Sydenham inward are more likely to head for Charing Cross than Victoria. On the flip side, the route from Victoria via Crystal Palace is a sensible route to Croydon, whilst London Bridge via Crystal Palace isn't. I suppose you would discontinue the Thameslink service to Sutton, as 8 tph round that loop would be too much. Yes. I've effectively replaced the Blackfriars service with a London Bridge one at Sutton. You have added a new service from Victoria via Streatham, but I don't think that would be justified, as that area is already well served from Victoria; besides, you would probably create a bottleneck at the flat junction at Herne Hill. It gives Tulse Hill and Streatham a train to Brixton, Clapham High St, and Victoria, which is a more useful supplement to the main London Bridge service than a train to Blackfriars. It reflects the main A23 and A204 corridors quite nicely. Oh, and because of trying to get fast trains into Victoria, there are big gaps by Herne Hill. East Croydon is probably not a good place to terminate trains, especially in the peak hours, because it's too busy. Platform 5. Which, seeing as any move from the Down Fast to Platform 4 fouls the Up Slow, is really one of the few things there's spare room for at East Croydon. Before commenting on your ideas in more detail, I want to look at the latest Station Working Books, which are online as pdf files at the PRAR site http://www.prar.fsnet.co.uk/diagrams.html. They show the departure times, platform numbers, and rolling stock (with number of cars) of all trains leaving every terminus, along with where they came from and when they arrived. Okay, I may prepare a detailed scheme from them. I like Eastfields and Bellingham stations, but I see no reason to close the existing Bellingham station. Crofton Park and Giant Arches are more debatable; there are several other places where you could build interchange stations. Crofton Park wouldn't be an interchange - I'm just trying to replace the Catford Loop with more useful stations so it can be used as a fast line to Victoria. Giant Arches would allow interchange with a (St Albans -) Blackfriars - Orpington/Swanley route (for which Blackfriars *is* the best city terminus), as would high level platforms at Loughborough Junction come to think of it. But there is a key weakness in the network at that point - ever tried getting from, say, Epsom to Bromley? |
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