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Posted by Rail Blue on Sat Dec 16 10:44:39 2006, in response to Re: Thameslink 2020 inches closer, posted by Fytton on Fri Dec 15 06:00:45 2006. What is going to happen - sooner or later - is the daft East London Line extension that **just misses** Liverpool Street (certainly)This strikes me as a really really dumb project. What would be far better would be to run trams from Bank, stop at Liverpool St, then Shoreditch, take over the ELL to New X Gate, then run on street via New Cross and Deptford Bridge to Greenwich, then maybe become the Greenwich Waterfront Transit thingy if that can ever be justified. This would actually deal with the problems of the ridership really being far too low for proper tube trains and the silly branching at the southern end. If re-opening to Dalston Junction is actually worthwhile, that would give somewhere to send the DLR from Bank. An extension to Charing X (or even Hammersmith!) would need new platforms at Bank (or more likely Cannon St) anyway, so in that eventuality the Dalston Branch could then become a self-contained shuttle using the old platforms. Thameslink 2000 (probably) Very silly project. and Crossrail (possibly). Excruciatingly silly project. |
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