"AstraVanMan" wrote in message
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In addition to all the tube (and DLR) links mentioned, an international
station at Stratford means that Eurostar passengers to/from many parts
of Essex and East Anglia do not have to go to central London to change.

When Crossrail is built, it will mean that Eurostar passengers to/from
the west of London won't need to change in central London.

And if the proposed plan to run Eurostar services on the west coast
mainline materialises, Stratford will be the only London stop.

It'll be the new Clapham Junction.

Indeed.

Willesden Junction could be turned into one too: build new platforms on the
main WCML lines and maybe even the GWML (as it passes so close). With
Crossrail 1 passing through, as well as all the GWML and WCML traffic, and
the Bakerloo and North London Lines (Orbirail by then?), you'd have a decent
hub for West London with connections to Gatwick (South Central), Heathrow
(Crossrail), the west (GWML), the north and midlands (WCML), and lots of
London. If NoL Eurostar services ever start, this would be an ideal
additional or alternative stop to Stratford. And a useful place to start
the HSL to the north.

With the ELL (and hence the creation of a true Orbirail service), and the
addition of Met and Chiltern platforms turning West Hampstead into more of a
hub, you'd have a decent inner-London hub network linked by the Orbirail
network and tube/Crossrail/Thameslink connections into the centre.

Or maybe I'm just dreaming... :-)

Angus