"Arthur Figgis" wrote in message
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Graeme wrote:
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Neil Williams wrote:

On 18 Dec, 14:52, "Recliner" wrote:

Cue the usual speculation of outlandish schemes for express routes, DLR
extensions, etc...
Speculation aside, having been to New York the 4-track express/local
split works wonders - Manhattan is as a result far, far quicker to get
around than London, though the system has its own faults. It's a pity
London didn't go that way early on.

That said, I'm not sure you'd save a lot skip-stopping Barbican, which
is all you'd really manage. Perhaps a more effective way to speed up
the subsurface lines is for the stock to have acceleration/
deceleration like a Desiro and presumably a higher top speed to make
use of it. Will the S-stock manage that, or is the power supply not
up to it?

That said, if the infrastructure was there, a District Line that did
Earls Court-Victoria-Embankment-Blackfriars-Monument-Tower Gateway
would speed up that somewhat glacially slow service somewhat. The
western part, of course, already has express services in the form of
the Picc. A Central Line that missed out everything except the
interchanges would also be useful, same with the Picc, but I don't see
a lot of scope on other lines.


Google deep level tubes, it nearly came to pass if it hadn't been
disrupted
by an Austrian painter of limited abilty but limitless ambition.

Weren't the bits that got built, built because of him?

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

Certainly some shelters were commissioned to be on possible future routes,
but built because of the wartime need. Subterranea Britannica (? spelling)
has lots on the subject.

DW downunder