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The Only Living Boy in New Cross · July 28th 03, 11:20 AM posted to uk.transport.london

(Mark Brader) wrote in message ...
"Patrick" writes:
... I wonder if it'd be possible to carve out a new station UNDER
the Thames, called "Wapping & Rotherhithe" which you could enter
& exit on both sides of the river?

Paris has a station like that%, but the Thames is wider. The length
of tunnel between Wapping and Rotherhithe is about 1,200 feet, which
would make rather a long station for urban trains.

But we have bridges over the Thames which people happily cross. And
given some of the distances you have to walk when you change lines on
parts of the tube, I'm sure it wouldn't be insurmountable.

John Rowland's point about listing, though, is probably more reason
why it won't happen. I'd forgotten that it was the tunnel listing,
and bickering over it, which caused the whole line to be shut for four
years instead of six months back in 1995. Yet another example (see
Bishopsgate Goods Yard) of the heritage industry making it difficult
to live in a modern society. Don't get me wrong, I'm heritage-minded
myself, but sometimes they do shoot themselves in the foot.

Patrick