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Old January 6th 18, 01:42 PM posted to uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london
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Default The Met to Watford Junction: Deadline Day

On 2018\01\06 13:13, e27002 aurora wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jan 2018 12:06:56 -0000, "tim..."
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"R. Mark Clayton" wrote in message
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On Monday, 1 January 2018 22:20:40 UTC, Recliner wrote:
An interesting article on the tangled history of this absurdly expensive
project whose time has come, and probably gone, as its parliamentary
approval is about to lapse, with no sign of the funding gap being filled:

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2017/the-metropolitan-line-extension-deadline-day/

AIUI if work has started before PP etc. expires then it can continue.


If you read the report to it's conclusion you will see that the law for
these works is different to PP.

Still it is not looking good for this project. Taking the Met. Into
Watford Junction would provide a very useful interchange.


For very few people. After all, the Harrow area and the Wembley area
already have services to Watford Junction.

The only point I can see in a Croxley Link would be a diesel version to
allow the entire Chiltern Amersham service to be diverted to Euston, so
that the Chiltern mainline could run more trains into Marylebone. But a
curve from Northwick Park to the "slow" OLE lines at South Kenton would
probably do a similar job much more cheaply.