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[email protected] · January 10th 16, 02:15 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Basil Jet)
wrote:

I was thinking about what a wasted resource the DC lines from Queens
Park to Euston are. A twin track railway to the edge of Central
London with only 3tph. But what to do with it?

Surely the real pressure is to turf the suburban services out to provide
more mainline and HS2 capacity?

You could build a curve from Wembley Central to Sudbury & Harrow
Road. The DC lines are on the west side here, so a flat junction
would be fine and I don't think any demolition would be required. The
Marylebone Line would be expensively interfered with as the new line
went under it or budged it apart and came up in the middle. The Suds
and Northolt Park would become Overground only with a train from
Euston every twenty minutes terminating at a new platform at South
Ruislip. The existing Marylebone trains which semi-randomly call at
the stations would cease to call there and would give an increased
service at Wembley Stadium and South Ruislip instead.

Getting between the Marylebone tracks would be the hard bit because you'd
need to run at local street level or else have a higher embankment and/or
viaduct. It looks practical and modestly priced if you just have a flat
junction, I agree.

The doubling of frequency of Overground service from Euston to
Wembley Central would probably mean the end of Stonebridge Park
terminators on the Bakerloo, leaving an off-peak service of 6tph LU
from Harrow and Wealdstone, 3tph LO from Watford and 3tph LO joining
at Wembley Central.

A still modest 12tph though.

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Colin Rosenstiel