On Aug 10, 2:51*pm, Tony Dragon wrote:
Paul wrote:
On 10 Aug, 07:59, Roland Perry wrote:
In message op.vg09em1lby8eno@sheepdog, at 21:19:24 on Fri, 6 Aug 2010,
Colin McKenzie remarked:

22. Park Royal: Central, Piccadilly
Anyone know what happened to this one? A few years ago it seemed to
be * going ahead.
The office development that was to fund it has stalled. Theoretically
it's *still a requirement if all the offices get built, but London
Underground *were never keen, and the condition is likely to be dropped
if housing is *built instead of offices.
A pity, and I still hope it goes ahead. It's easy to work out that
passengers from further out on Piccadilly or Central lines, going to a
zone 1 or 2 destination on the other line, benefit from changing at
Park *Royal. So does LU, as it reduces number of stations passed and
number of *interchanges made in zone 1, where tube capacity is most
strained. And *they're more likely to get a seat. But this sort of
lateral thinking seems *to be beyond London Underground.
It's also possible that people living "further out on the Piccadilly"
would use it as a short cut to/from the West End, thereby overloading
the Central.
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One (relatively cheap) proposal would be to extend the Northern Line
from Morden to Morden South and provide an interchange with the
station on the Wimbledon - Sutton loop. *This would be useful for
people living in the Sutton area. On the other hand, it might overload
the Northern Line, which wouldn't go down well with people in Tooting,
Balham and Clapham. *Would this be feasible if the Northern Line were
ever permanently split in two?

Is there not a mosque in the way?


Not really. The mosque is adjacent to the main part of the platforms,
but the southernmost tracks of the depot could easily be extended
without infringing on the mosque itself (although the car park may be
affected). I think the only thing you might lose is the scout hall.

You could do one of four things:

(1) Extend the Northern Line to a terminus on the site of the mosque's
unpaved overflow parking, with a southern entrance on Central Road and
a footbridge at the northern end running to the southern end of the NR
platform.

(2) Extend the Northern Line to run parallel to the Wall of Death from
just south of Morden South to St Helier. Again, you'd take a bit of
the mosque parking, but not very much.

(3) Create a flat junction south of Morden South and run onto Network
Rail metals to Sutton. Chances are the Health and Safety people would
scream blue murder due to the different platform heights though.

(4) Fix the platform heights in (3) and make Morden-Sutton exclusively
a Northern Line service. Extend Tramlink from Wimbledon to a new
interchange station at Central Road (or, indeed, to St Helier, with
Tramlink potentially continuing on Wrythe Lane through Carshalton and
back to Croydon by a different route)