On Nov 26, 10:24*am, 1506 wrote:
On Nov 25, 6:03*pm, "Mizter T" wrote:

"1506" wrote:
On Nov 25, 8:27 am, wrote:

Anyone know what the plans are for the remaining parts of the moorgate
line
are? Will LU take them over eventually?

There is no obvious use for the extra pair from Farringdon to
Moorgate, sad really.

I think it's to be used at least in part as a stabling location for the new
(longer) S-stock - at the moment part of it is being used as a worksite
(storage etc) for the Farringdon Thameslink works - might also prove useful
(indeed could well be part of the plan) to utilise it in the same capacity
for Crossrail works too.

Will "S" stock be able to reverse at Aldgate? *The problem with
utilizing the tracks and/or platforms on the Moorgate widened lines is
that terminating trains have to cross the anti-clockwise Circle line
in a conflicting movement. *The same would apply were the terminal
platform at Liverpool Street restored.

....one of the reasons I would've thought that the Crossrail works in
Finsbury Circus would've been a golden opportunity to knock through
the SSL's terminating platforms at Moorgate (or indeed, the former
Thameslink bays) to connect up with the SSL under Finsbury Circus (or
extended to Liverpool St.).

There's the option of just knocking through a single track tunnel from
one of the bays to get central terminating bays to remove the
conflicting moves, or there's the option of knocking through a couple
of the bays to give bidirectional terminating capability. That could
provide a pair of centre terminating roads, accessible from both
sides, and depending on what layout was chosen, there could even be a
pair of directional islands.