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Posted by Fytton on Fri Dec 15 06:00:45 2006, in response to Re: Thameslink 2020 inches closer, posted by Max Roberts on Fri Dec 15 05:50:05 2006. '..it would be necessary to dive down between Farringdon and Barbican, and between Barbican and Moorgate, so at the end of the day all that extra work would get you just one free station (Barbican).'Which is pointless! Crossrail is supposed to be an express route with a limited number of stations, all of them interchanges, so it doesn't need a Barbican stop anyway. Farringdon would be the major interchange between the two RER-style routes, the north-south Thameslink 2000 and the east-west Crossrail. Shame Farringdon isn't situated in an area where most people want to go..... 'Liverpool Street [Underground station] is a cramped station (no chance of squeezing in extra platforms above or below the current ones) leading to several flat junctions. That's where the money should be spent, reorganising services and eliminating these.' Agreed. That triangle of flat junctions between Liverpool Street, Aldgate east and Tower Hill is a major cause of delay and disruption throughout the LU subsurface lines. But we know that this isn't going to happen. What is going to happen - sooner or later - is the daft East London Line extension that **just misses** Liverpool Street (certainly), Thameslink 2000 (probably) and Crossrail (possibly). Nothing else is planned. |
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