Public Transport Expansion
Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was Clive D. W. Feather
), in message
who said:
But you should actually be comparing before- and after-1933, when the
system was nationalised.
New lines since 1933:
Central: all the bits east of Liverpool Street, and the West Ruislip
branch, were planned in the late 1930s and opened after WW2.
A large proportion of which ran over existing track which, funnily enough,
had been developed privately before nationalisation.
H&C: service between Aldgate East and Barking started in 1936.
Eh? That runs *entirely* over the existing network.
FFS, if that's going to be the line of logic, then TfL could introduce a
whole raft of new lines with new names, running over existing bits of the
network, and then claim expansion.
Jubilee: Baker Street to Finchley Road tunnels opened 1939 (the
private sector having failed to do anything about this bottleneck).
The line south/east of Baker Street is all 1979 or later.
Metropolitan: four-tracking north of Harrow-on-the-Hill and
electrification beyond Rickmansworth are 1960s.
Northern: the bits north of Archway were opened in the late 1930s or
early 1940s.
Over existing lines again.
Piccadilly: Heathrow extension is 1970s & 1980s.
Victoria Line: built in the 1960s.
The Vic and the Jubilee extension have been the only enhancements to the
system on a scale similar to the achievements of the 1863-1910 period.
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