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Posted by Rail Blue on Tue Jan 16 08:01:00 2007, in response to Re: West London Line & West Coast Main Line (Was: Cockfosters), posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 16 05:32:52 2007. If the government was really serious about tackling the London Housing shortage, they would take underperforming lines such as this, and relax planning restrictions within a 1 mile radius of every station.They'd also need a withholding tax (like the French have) or you'll have to wait for the grannies in their detached bungalows, people who'd rather hold onto their land for the horses, and the EU-subsidised farmers to die off. But ultimately development around the outer end of the Tattenham Corner branch would backfire. For arrivals at London termini between 0800 and 0859, Tattenham Corner has the following trains and journey times: 2tph Victoria 53-55 mins 2tph London Bridge 56-57 mins And they're not evenly spaced either - the gaps are: (19) VC 17 LB 8 VC 16 LB (10) Conversely, at Epsom you have in the same interval: 6tph Waterloo 36-39 mins 3tph Victoria 38-42 mins 2tph London Bridge 45-47 mins So people will still drive into Epsom for the faster, more frequent service. The problem is that the buses south from Epsom (166, 318, 460, 621, E5 (Langley Vale branch)) are extremely infrequent, and only the 166 accepts travelcards: 166 - 1bph west of Banstead (how nice of them to turn the other 2bph there) 318 - 5bpd all off-peak Mon Wed Fri only (can someone design a more useless bus service?) 460 - 2bph at 20/40 intervals (you couldn't make this stuff up!), one of which runs into Walton-on-the-Hill and back out again; this route is a detached segment of the Green Line route 406, the TfL portion of which at least runs an even 2bph. 621 - 1bpd off-peak Fri only E5 (Langley Vale branch) - roughly 1bph into Epsom in the am peak, roughly ½bph otherwise, last bus back from Epsom at the uselessly early time of 1845 Somewhere I've got an Excel file of how to sort out the buses around Epsom so that they're actually useable. |
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