View Single Post
  #11   Report Post  
Old September 26th 07, 11:22 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Tom Anderson Tom Anderson is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity at LondonBanter: Oct 2003
Posts: 3,188
Default Maps, with some observations and some questions

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Mr Thant wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

But John Band said there were 16 trains doing GN - Broad Street in the
peaks! That's probably 8 tph, which seems decent. Now, that was from
the GN to the Canonbury Curve (well, the bit north of the curve proper
- the Canonbury Straight?), but all it would take is a pair of
crossovers south of the junction with the mainline to get those trains
onto the GN&CR.


The GN&CR is in a deep cutting at this point, presumably deep enough to
go under the Canonbury Curve tracks to reach the old deep-level station.
Building a connection would have been (and apparently was) a major
project.


Aaaah, okay. So the original Drayton Park on the GN&CR was at the bottom
of a cutting, with tubes at either end going to Moorgate and Finsbury
Park. Yes, that stitches it up pretty tight!

tom

--
There's no future.