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Basil Jet[_4_] · November 29th 15, 02:14 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 2015\11\29 14:51, Recliner wrote:
On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 12:56:21 +0000, Basil Jet
wrote:

On 2015\11\29 11:09, wrote:

Are there any other abandoned routes in the London and immediate
surrounds that could be considered in the same light?
Demolition of buildings will be required on such routes but would for
example rebuilding the Hammersmith Grove Road link facilitate route
opportunities from the nearer parts of SW London to N London should
CrossRail generate so much traffic from further out that becomes
overcrowded.
I expect the nearby Hammersmith and Chiswick is a lost cause though.

I can't think of any use for it even if the track was still there.

For decades I've been trying, on and off, to think of a solution to the
Gunnersbury Shuffle[1] that wouldn't both cost a fortune *and* make
things worse. I may have hit on it.

When the Picc takes over Ealing Broadway, divert the District Line
trains from Richmond through the old diveunder east of Fishers Lane,
which is long enough for two Piccadilly tracks over it. This would give
two straight adjacent District tracks east of Acton Lane which could
have two platforms built on them. The existing District platforms would
be served by the Piccadilly Line, and all Piccadilly services at Turnham
Green would cease. The curve on the north side of the Gunnersbury
Triangle would be reinstated, and the North London Line would be
diverted via the *NEW* District platforms in both directions, with a
reversal there. Thus all trains in the area would call at Chiswick Park.
The west side of the Gunnersbury Triangle could be abandoned and become
part of the nature reserve, to make up for any land lost on the north
side. If having NLL trains occupying District platforms while the driver
changes ends is a problem, then there would have to be NLL platforms
alongside the new District ones, for which there is room, but the extra
junctions east of Acton Lane would push all of the new platforms further
away from the station entrance.

[1] North London Line - Gunnersbury - Turnham Green - Acton Town - Heathrow

What about the new blocks of flats on Bollo Lane which are probably in
the way of the line and platforms you want to build?

The platforms would be east of Acton Lane.

I wasn't sure if those flats were on the old alignment. A slightly
tighter curve just south of them should be okay... it would be nowhere
near as curved as Metropolitan Junction.