"MIG" wrote in message
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Obviously, it makes a lot of difference whether the train is due to go
and whether any feeding NR trains have arrived from the south since
the last one left. I suspect most ELL users at New Cross may be local
rather than changing, but that would take a lot of standing around to
verify. On the other branch, people do seem to be travelling through.

Does anyone know if there have ever been any serious proposals to extend
that leg of the ELL further? Despite a new up direction flyover being a
fairly obvious requirement, and a bit more double tracking (approximately
where the old depot was), surely an ELL extension in the general direction
of Lewisham would be a lower cost option than for example Bakerloo
extensions? Of course it depends to an extent on transfer to other lines
but Crossrail should help there...

Paul S