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Re: East London Line to re-open, extended, in April |
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Posted by Fytton on Tue Feb 9 07:01:05 2010, in response to Re: East London Line to re-open, extended, in April, posted by JohnL on Mon Feb 8 22:39:34 2010. 'What I would like Fytton to answer is how much of this is new track'Utterly new RoW runs only from Shoreditch (just on the Whitechapel side of the old station), over a new long skew bridge over the multiple tracks of the approach to Liverpool Street main-line station, then on a new viaduct across the site of the old Bishopsgate goods station (= freight yard, in American!) - Shoreditch High Street new station is on this viaduct - continuing with an attractive bowstring bridge over Shoreditch High Street itself, then a curving viaduct round to join on to the butt end of the old North London Line viaduct north of the site of that line's Broad Street terminus. The line then follows the old NLL RoW to Dalston Junction, which had bee trackless since the closure of the Broad Street line when the NLL trains from Richmond were diverted to their present route through Hackney to Stratford after a brief interval of running into Liverpool Street terminus. The line on from Dalston Junction station to the junction itself, allowing through running to Highbury & Islington over the NLL tracks, is being relaid now and will open to passengers in 2011. Unfortunately Dalston still gets two separate stations, as Dalston Kingsland station is on the Hackney line from the junction. At New Cross Gate station, the link from the NLL platforms to the Brighton main line, missing for many years, is going back in, to allow the through running to West Croydon and Crystal Palace which starts a little later in 2010. The future extension over the South London Line to Clapham Junction will entail relying track along another section of old RoW long without track, inclusive of a new station at Surrey Canal Road. Hopefully, before too many decades pass, they will restore a station at Brixton on the SLL - East Brixton station closed years ago - to provide connections to the southern terminus of the Victoria Line. |
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