London Banter - View Single Post - Thameslink programme to go ahead "in it's entirety"

[email protected] · November 26th 10, 12:17 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Mizter T) wrote:

"Basil Jet" wrote:

On 2010\11\25 18:21, Mizter T wrote:

"Paul Corfield" wrote:

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:27:42 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:

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

I thought something had been said in Modern Railways about the
remaining alignment (net of any incursions by Crossrail or
Thameslink works) was being considered as potential stabling
sidings for LUL use. I might be imagining it though!

I don't think you are, though I don't think I've ever read or heard
anything solid about it. From a layman's point of view it'd seems
like a decent location for some sidings.

Given the value of land in the area, it's a decent location for
pretty much anything but sidings. [...]

I disagree - this is a two-track width railway bed in a cutting
next to an operational two-track railway, and the cutting is
surrounded by buildings already. I'm not trying to suggest that
there couldn't be various clever ways of fitting in some
development into this space, but it's a rather constrained linear
location (/locations) which is hardly ideal for development.

[...] There's a disused bay platform at Liverpool Street behind
shutters, so there can't be much need for extra track in the area..

AIUI the issue w.r.t. the new S-stock trains is that they're going
to be too long for several of the present stabling sidings that
exist on the sub-surface railway. I'm not sure if the bay platform
at Liverpool Street would be workable, and I rather doubt that it
alone would satisfy the apparent need.

They could do both of course. Use the trackbed for new sidings and
construct new buildings above them like over most of that part of the
Metropolitan.

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Colin Rosenstiel