London Banter - View Single Post - So what's going wrong with the Jubilee line?

Roland Perry · April 23rd 11, 03:14 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 07:14:16
on Sat, 23 Apr 2011, remarked:
I am perfectly aware of that. What you seem unaware of, however, is
what a poor state it was in ("mothballed" is a bit optimistic), and
how much work was required on ancillary aspects. I don't think any
of the stations were re-openable, for example, all the level
crossings were missing, and several large items like a viaduct over
the river were beyond repair.

Unless you can some to terms with that, you'll never understand why
reopening as a railway would have been very costly.

While I agree with your description of the state of the old railway, are
you aware of rail industry estimates of railway restoration costs
published by Castiron which contract your last sentence?

I'm not aware of any estimates that took account of all the issues that
had to be overcome. I doubt they covered the Trumpington cutting at all,
for example. I don't know to what extent the Castiron estimates included
building the P&R sites and other ancillary stuff.
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Roland Perry