On Sun, 01 Nov 2015 10:26:24 +0000, e27002 aurora
wrote:
On Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 10:09:45 AM UTC, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2015\10\30 23:28, Robin9 wrote:
I note that there seems to be no provision to create an interchange
with the Barking/Gospel Oak service even though the suggested route
pretty well passes under South Tottenham station. I assume whoever
created this plan is aware that the Overground service is growing fast
but needs to provide more opportunities to change to other routes?
The Seven Sisters station will have "A new southern ticket hall and
entrance onto the High Road/Ermine Road.. A dedicated link between South
Tottenham and the new southern ticket hall".
But at Tottenham Hale it seems that there will be no interchange with
the Goblin, even though a 250m platform would stretch from the current
station to the Goblin line, if they built it south of the road instead
of north.
That would in practice be re/building two new stations not just
extending a couple of platforms. Also, the distance from Tottenham
Hale to the bridge over GOBLIN is about twice that given above so
there would still be a couple of hundred yards for interchanging
passengers to walk between platforms extended south from Tottenham
Hale to a new station on GOBLIN.
This is TfL folly. This project has been cobbled together. We need
responsibly operated LTPB for the Home Counties. The "Mayer of (the
Region of) London malarkey is a nonsense.
I had presumed that the new line would be the fast line built to the
east with platforms only at Tottenham Hale, Cheshunt and Broxbourne, and
that the existing line would become the dedicated Crossrail 2 line. But
https://www.london.gov.uk/moderngov/...on%20FINAL.pdf
shows that CR2 will have the middle tracks, so the existing southbound
platforms will become island platforms for CR2, with the existing
northbound platforms abandoned on what will be the new fast northbound.
Tottenham Hale will have only one new platform built to the east, so
building it south of the road probably isn't entirely practical.
BTW, Crossrail 2 is a bit of a mouthful. Can we call it Happyrail? Maybe
the Overground should be Noughtrail?
In its present form call it Borisrail? Boris's Folly?