--- Larry Lard said...

The southern part of the East London Line extension is projected to
have 4 trains per hour each way between New Cross Gate and Crystal
Palace, and also between New Cross Gate and West Croydon. Currently,
there are some not insignificant number of suburban stopping rail
services that use these slow lines from London Bridge down through
Norwood Junction to West Croydon, and also diverging to Crystal Palace
to loop back to Victoria.

How well are these services going to coexist with an additional 8
trans per hour from the ELL?

Good question, Larry.

I live in Gipsy Hill, and I'm worried that the ELLX will mean my local
station losing its existing services to London Bridge via Sydenham,
Forest Hill, etc. Will we get extra trains via Tulse Hill to make up
for it? And what's going to happen to the Victoria half of the Forest
Hill loop? Will it be scrapped as well, leaving us with fewer Victoria
trains too? Or will it remain but be diverted to Norwood Junction and
Croydon, adding to the extra congestion that the ELLX will already be
causing there?

It's ridiculous. The ELLX will cause chaos to lines around South
London, just to allow a few people in Sydenham to get to Hoxton more
easily. Why? I can't believe Sydenham is _really_ that full of people
all saying "I wish we could get to Hoxton more easily," or vice versa.
Maybe I'm wrong, but somehow it doesn't seem right to disrupt lines that
take people where we actually want to go, just to build a line that
doesn't go anywhere useful!

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