On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Mr Thant wrote:

On 9 Oct, 16:44, Tom Anderson wrote:

You're probably right. I had this idea the portal was going to be
further east for some reason. What happens to Pudding Mill?

It gets obliterated. Those nice Crossrail folks will build them a new
viaduct around the south side of the tunnel portal, and a new station.

Ah, good. And there's room for a third track to Stratford, presumably. Or
already is one.

It got me thinking, though - maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to
resurrect that route. When the DLR branch to Stratford along the old
NLL is done, this branch will become slightly redundant (still useful
for commuting from points on it to Stratford, but not necessary for
access from Stratford to Docklands)

Trains on the new branch will only be able to head east (ie towards
Beckton or Woolwich), the opposite way to the existing branch.

Oh bugger. That seems somehow perverse; i suppose the point is to provide
a route from people's houses in those areas to their jobs in Stratford,
rather than to lay on yet more trains to Docklands. The DLR remains a big
huge mystery to me.

tom

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