On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, John Rowland wrote:

"Adrian Auer-Hudson" wrote in message
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What would it take to make at least one of these, GC and Piccadilly
Line, pairs into an interchange station?

The addition of an NR symbol to the tube map!

Indeed!

The Sudbury Hill stations are certainly very close.

The TfL journey planner puts the walk at 300 metres; it'd be less if there
was an entrance to the NR station on Greenford Road. That's not a lot more
than the 190 metres between tube and thameslink stations at West
Hampstead, and those qualify as a single station (albeit two blobs) on TfL
diagrams. It's definitely less than the 400 m walk from the W&C to circle
platforms at Bank, which again is one station with two blobs.

If you had a few million to spare - anything found down the back of the
sofa after King's Cross is done, say - you could even sling a subway
between the two, under the road - the opposite of what's being done at
West Hampstead. Of course, there isn't anything like the need for it here.

Maybe if you used the Greenford branch to extend the Central Line to
Harrow-on-the-Hill, via Sudbury Hill ...

The philosophy of "we don't need to stop the Chilterns there because the
tubes stop there" is certainly very strange - it's a good job that One
don't go along with that philosophy, or they would provide a skeleton
service at all Tottenham Hale, Seven Sisters and Walthamstow Central.
Brent Council are very keen on getting a better service at all four
Chiltern stations, but Chiltern aren't interested.

It might be because there isn't demand. How heavily used are the trains
that do stop there?

Of course, this is probably one of those cases where ridership is low
because the service is so poor. If they had quick trains to Marylebone
every 15 minutes, they might see a lot more use.

tom

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