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Posted by Fytton on Tue Sep 12 06:29:12 2006, in response to Re: London Overground, posted by David Fairthorne on Mon Sep 11 23:44:15 2006. 2One possible route could run via Herne Hill, Tulse Hill and Streatham; a Bakerloo service in that area would perhaps be preferable to another service to Victoria. Another possible route could run via Peckham Rye to Lewisham."Getting to Loughborough Junction isn't a problem, as there are four tracks and the national rail service could make do with two. As I said before, the Bakerloo could serve reopened Walworth Road and Camberwell Green stations. Practical problems arise thereafter tjough owing to lack of spare tracks. Go round from Loughborough Jcn to Denmark Hill and Peckham Rye and you are conflicting not only with Mayor Ken's longer-term Overground proposal for an ELL branch to Clapham Junction, but also with national rail trains heading out of Victoria - and there are four tracks, but not six. Carry on down to Herne Hill instead, what heppens when you get to Herne Hill station? Double-deck it, to segregate the Bakerloo? Then on to Tulse Hill is o.k., but again you have to segregate the actual station. And where do you go after that? For non-conflicting routes it is terminate at Streatham (as you suggested, David), carry on to Wimbledon via Tooting, or swing round to Streatham Common and head for Croydon. Wimbledon via Tooting serves an area that already has the Northern and District Lines - no point in Underground investment there, though an end-on connection between the Bakerloo Streatham terminus and a Streatham-Wimbledon Tramlink might work. Round to Streatham Common and on Croydon via Norbury would be good, but that's the Victoria-Brighton main line and you haven't got any spaare tracks. Double-decking it with the Bakerloo elevated over the main line might work, but the NIMBYs would have a field day with that, not to mention the expense. |
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