On 9 Oct, 16:44, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, alex_t wrote:
and towards Stratford underneath the Great Eastern Main Line.

Underneath? I thought it will *join* the Great Eastern Main Line at the
current location of Pudding Mill Lane.

You're probably right. I had this idea the portal was going to be further
east for some reason. What happens to Pudding Mill? Crossrail will
presumably have two tracks here - will the formation be widened, or will
this DLR branch be pruned? Have i asked this here before?

...have a look at what Google thinks the DLR does north of Bow Church
Amazing, it's like 1930s all over again!
It got me thinking, though - maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to resurrect
that route.
There's a motorway on top of it.

The route from Bow Church to the Isle of Dogs is (i
think) a former railway route, so with a bit of work, you could turn the
whole thing back into an NR line, and send some or all NLL trains to
Poplar instead of Stratford.
I thought the NLL was being cannibalised - the north and west bits to
Dalston for Orbirail (including the far north bit of the ELL
extension), the middle bits from Dalston for the Chelsea-Hackney line,
and the far east bits beyond Stratford for the DLR?