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"Paul Scott" wrote in message
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There is a mention that extending towards Clapham Junction will help
with
a
'future orbital rail project', presumably this will mean reversal at CJ
and
up via Kensington Olympia etc? Does the track layout at CJ allow for
this
eventuality without huge changes?

Trains would run from the ELL via the new spur from Surrey Quays to the
SLL
at Old Kent Road, then via the SLL to Wandsworth Road, then Factory
Junction, Culver Road Junction, to Clapham Junction platforms 1 (which
would
be reinstated) and 2. Platform 2 is currently used by the Kensington
Olympia
and Willesden Junction shuttle - it was also used a few years back when
the
London Bridge - Victoria trains were diverted there (by the above route)
when the route through Battersea Park was temporarily unavailable.

Peter

So at CJ it might logically operate with one platform for eastbound and
one
for westbound trains?

ISTM that in that case you would need to be very careful how to express this
to the general public; a clearer terminology would be 'trains for north
London via the West London line' vs 'trains for the East London Line via
south London' (NB it is standard paractice not to identify platforms by
reference to where arriving trains have probably come from).

Regards,

- Alan (in Brussels)