On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, sweek wrote:

On 23 Jun, 22:13, "Graham Harrison"
wrote:
"sweek" wrote in message

ups.com...

How about moving Chiswick Park to where the North London Line crosses
the Piccadilly and District platforms, and biulding platforms for all
three of them? I suppose it'd be quite expensive, but that way a
single line could be kept, and interchange between the three lines
could be provided quite easily. there's quite a bit of space on the
sout-western side of the tracks for a station building according to
Google Earth.

That's more or less what i was suggesting.

I haven't lloked at GE but I suspect the land you're referring to is
the old Chiswick Works. Oh, and close Gunnersbury?

I wouldn't close Gunnersbury, because the situation stays pretty much
the same as it is now. The distance between Chiswick Park and
Gunnersbury now is the same as it would be in the new situation. And
they serve different branches of the District line, so I guess they both
have their use.

Indeed. A trianglur situation like this is actually quite annoying from a
station point of view, because there's nowhere you can put a single
station that will allow all interchanges, except in the middle - and in
this case, it's a nature reserve!

I would close South Acton, though.

Now, while we've got out A-Zs on the same page, i should mention the
shameful lack of interchange between any of these lines and the Brentford
Loop. Two curves and some platforms, and you could route the NLL and
District via Kew Bridge, plus you'd create an opportunity for the
three-way interchange discussed above - in fact, you could get both
branches of the District. Bit in the middle of nowhere, though. Although
if some future mayor decided to turn that cluster of industrial estates
into a high-density housing project ...

tom

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