On May 7, 5:12�pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote:
"Eric" wrote in message

... Does anybody know the reason that the Willsden Junction- Clapham Junction
train takes so long? *I know there is a voltage change between Willesden &
Olympia, but the train crawls on this section & often stops two or three
times. Between Olympia & West Brompton the speed is reasonable but after
that the train crawls to Clapham Junction, the other day a jackdaw
overtook the train & it was walking beside the track.
Also was there a plan to build a station at Chelsea Harbour at one time?

The new station is going to be called Imperial Wharf - it actually made it
onto the maps in 2005, but has since gone again - I believe its all tied in
with ongoing planning permissions for the housing *which will allow it to be
paid for by the developer...

Paul


I still don't understand this reference to ongoing planning permission
for housing.

When the crooked (I use the term advisedly, since there can be no
other explanation for London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham's volte
farce over planning consent) St. George developers obtained planning
consent for their Las Vegas-style over-development of the Fulham
Gasworks site, they GUARANTEED (I was at the public meeting) that the
money for the new station at Chelsea Harbour (now mooted to be called
Imperial Wharf) was ring-fenced and available, and the ONLY reason
that the station was not being built immediately was because of
reluctance on the part of Railtrack in slowing up operation of the
line (the more stations the slower the paths, presumably), especially
with Eurostar and freight movements.

Some ten years on, still not a scintilla of a sight of that much-
fabled station - as I said would be the case at that same public
meeting. So, the long-suffering traffic-jammed residents of Fulham who
daily incur more traffic and jams as the developers' properties come
on stream, have been thoroughly conned, cheated and treated with
contempt. Just as I predicted at the meeting at which the St. George
crooks somehow swindled councillors and others into their dishonest
pockets.

Marc.