Jack Taylor wrote:
Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
(Tom Anderson) wrote:
There is another option - if trains didn't visit Clapham Junction
at all, they could go from Imperial Wharf to Wandsworth Road
directly, without reversing. I don't have a track map to hand, but
ISTR that this can be done without conflicting movements across
other tracks.
Misses out a rather important traffic objective, though.
Another option would be to maintain the status quo on the West London
line and to continue Orbirail on from Willesden Junction to South
Acton, thence via South Acton Junction and Kew Junctions to join the
Brentford loop, running through Barnes and Putney to Clapham Junction
and on via Wandsworth Road, creating a true orbital service.
Gunnersbury to Richmond could then be turned over entirely to
District Line operation.
So how would a passenger get from Brondesbury Park to Kew Gardens?
The other option is to turn Clapham Junction into a local station and build
a replacement interchange at Queenstown Road station, which could also have
platforms on the Victoria-Kent lines and on the Wandsworth Road - Olympia
line. I think that would give a lot of curvy and possibly sloping platforms
though.