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Posted by Rail Blue on Tue Sep 12 07:16:56 2006, in response to Re: London Overground, posted by David Fairthorne on Tue Sep 12 00:25:08 2006. The Victoria line, being crowded, needs the most frequent service, which can be attained by a single route (with no branches) and all trains stopping at all stations.Just like they attained 30tph on the Piccadilly Line with two western branches, one of which has to interleave with the District Line. We're not talking the sorts of hyper-frequencies that require no branches. The Victoria line extension should completely capture the Chatham main line as far as Shortlands Shortlands is a bit of a nowhere location, but it does have a spare pair of tracks beyond it (as far as Swanley). you would need some relatively major works at Herne Hill Well, an extra tube station is relatively major I suppose. According to the stats file, Brixton main line station has very low ridership That is based on tickets sold to/from Brixton. Transferring passengers would have bought tickets to London U1 or Travelcards. The stats for Brixton therefore represent: 1) people working in the immediate vicinity of Brixton station 2) people buying tickets at Brixton station (including anyone coming from a bus who doesn't have a Travelcard yet) The busiest stations on the route are Bromley South and Orpington in that order. No surprises there then. I bet that Beckenham Junction features quite highly too. |
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