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Re: 93 NEW PHOTOS of the London Underground and National Rail (Was: Cockfosters) |
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Posted by Max Roberts on Mon Jan 8 11:00:16 2007, in response to Re: 93 NEW PHOTOS of the London Underground and National Rail (Was: Cockfosters), posted by Rail Blue on Mon Jan 8 10:24:30 2007. Remaining Met services:I would keep a service running into Baker Street and terminating in order to cater for well-established (and heavy) traffic flows, for example a viaable combination might be (1) Uxbridge-Baker Street (2) Watford-Harrow & Wealdstone-Preston Road-Morden (3) Watford-Harrow-on-the-Hill-Preston Road-Morden Busy Northern Line in North London: Its not impossibly busy, but capacity would also be provided by Moorgate-Finsbury Park-Highgate-Alexandar Palace/Edgware services. By getting rid of Bank services, it should be possible to run the branches more reliably, which in itself adds capacity. And in the south: Its the only realistic route BUT its still not a very good one, and would probably attract less traffic than the Croydon branch, with all the problems for reliability that this results in. Problem is that even with a blank cheque it is hard to identify a useful route south of Streatham. Its interesting to speculate on whether the railway lines took the best routes in terms of eventual housing density and traffic potential. If I was starting railways in this area from scratch, I would have one follow the 159 route to Thornton Heath and then on to Croydon, and the other follow the 68 route through Upper Norwood. Forget about Chelney, its only slightly less stupid than Crossrail. In my fantasy, it runs from Morden South to Fulham Broadway, and in the North East to Hainault and Collier Row-Harold Hill (or should that be the other way round). You are right about South of Croydon, plenty of dense housing. I think that you could justify a tube service to Purley, and yes, with turning facilities at Coulsdon North if necessary. |
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