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Old October 23rd 06, 10:11 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Tim Roll-Pickering Tim Roll-Pickering is offline
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Dave Arquati wrote:

This must be the first LU example of two platform faces for capacity
reasons rather than for terminating trains (DLR already offering both
intentions in the same station at Canary Wharf).


I'd have to look it up, but do *all* the existing two platform faces only
exist at what were built to be terminals?

Being unfamiliar with Stratford, I'm trying to understand the level
changes in the diagram. My impression from the diagrams is that currently
access to the Jubilee line is directly from the existing ticket hall, but
access to the current NLL/new DLR cannot be, because the tracks pass over
the hall. So how do you reach the new DLR platforms?


In addition to what everyone else has said, the Central Line dives back
underground very early - almost literally at the end of the platform and the
westbound hole is right next to the current DLR bay (platform 4). Will there
be a direct route from the old DLR platform to the new ones? The current
interchange with the stopping services is very convenient and redirecting
passengers through tunnels (or worse still, trying to use Central Line
trains as a bridge) would undermine a lot of improvements.