On Jul 24, 8:59 pm, brixtonite wrote:
On Jul 24, 5:14 pm, Mark Morton wrote:

Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:

Guardian has a double-page of the DLR boring machine broken through
at Woolwich Arsenal -- haven't found a link on their site yet.

Once the DLR is open at Woolwich Arsenal, is there going to be an
increase in National Rail services calling there?

If you're going to/from Kent, at what point along the DLR Woolwich
branch will it be quicker to go via the DLR and change at Woolwich,
rather than go via Canary Wharf and change at Greenwich on NR?
From anywhere between Bank and King George V. The DLR website gives

Woolwich Arsenal to Bank as 27 minutes, while Greenwich to Bank is 22
minutes; and the train takes 11 - 13 minutes to get from Greenwich to
Woolwich.You'll only be better going via Greenwich if you're
travelling from stations between Pudding Mill Lane and Lewisham.

If you're at Bank, then just get on a train at Cannon Street.

I am trying to work out the main use of the extension. Anyone wanting
the City will just stay on the train to Cannon Street. Anyone wanting
Canary Wharf will need to change at Greenwich or Lewisham or else have
to change again at Poplar or Westferry.

So the real link it adds is for people who want to cross the Thames
and head towards places like Stratford, which for the moment they
can't without changes, or London City Airport. It's a pedestrian
alternative to the Woolwich Ferry and foot tunnel, and can't be much
more till new connections are build north of the Thames.