On 15 Dec, 13:28, Tom Anderson wrote:

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The cross-country route doesn't do anything about traffic generated by the
ports nearer London, around Tilbury etc. One plan there is to use the
Gospel Oak - Barking line for a lot more freight, possibly even closing it
to passenger trains, i think, which would relieve the North London line
between Stratford and Gospel Oak. If you could send all through-London
freight that way, i think you could in theory run a tube-frequency service
between Stratford and Gospel Oak.


I don't think I've ever read about a serious proposal to close GOBLIN
for passenger services and make it freight only. Certainly no such
notion appears to be on TfL's radar.

Could any kind of serious case be made for this - i.e. a strong enough
argument to justify closing it for passenger services?

(My gut instinct is that any such move would be a distinctly
retrograde step, but I'm interested in the arguments.)