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On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 10:58:48 +0100
Bryan Morris wrote:
In message , writes
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 23:48:23 +0100
Basil Jet wrote:
https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/herit...bridge-could-b
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Never mind demolishing it - they should reinstate the line to muswell hill.
All
the trackbed is still in situ from there back to highgate sidings and putting
track back down and restoring highgate high level station would cost buttons
in
comparisons to white elephants such as crossrail. I'm pretty sure a shuttle
service to and from highgate to catch the main northern line would be pretty
popular given the current alternative is the bus to wood green.

It's over 40 years since, as a Haringey Councillor and member of the
Alexander Palace and park committee I proposed a unique light railway,
part at ground level, part suspended on the old line. Funded by the,
then, EEC and running from Highgate high level station

I'm not convinced a light railway/tram with all the extra expense of
maintaining
specialised rolling stock and its own depot would be cheaper than just laying a
couple of extra miles of track out from highgate depot, but either way the area
needs a rail link as during (normal) rush hours its just gridlock around there.

As I said, at the time, it would have been fully funded by the EEC. The
stock would have been driverless and could run if required 24/7 . It was
capable to be set up by demand, from one carriage to multi. It could be
run on rails or be suspended.

I arranged for a working model to be displayed to show the
possibilities.

My concern at the time, when Alexandra Palace was being rebuilt, (it had
largely been destroyed in a fire in the 1960s when it was run by the
GLC) was lack of mass public transport there with all the things that
were planned.Plus access to the tube at Highgate from places like
Muswell Hill and Crouch End



A feasibility study was turned down by those who said it would ruin the
Parkland Walk

There's always a few nimbies.

All very well saying "just laying a
couple of extra miles of track out from Highgate depot" like the
proposed widening of Archway Road at the same time, with nimbie
demonstrations at public inquiry after public enquiry there were more
than a few nimbies, and they could be aggressive.
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Bryan Morris