On Jan 20, 6:46 pm, D7666 wrote:
It does occur to me that maybe a possible but expensive supplementry
solution to inner south London surface rail capacity is to revive
extending the Bakerloo line through the area. Of course thats
something thats been sat on for a goodly long time looking as if it
has no hope of ever getting going. I've not seen much about geological
issues or routes but am I right in thinking various schemes have been
worked out ?


Proposals to extend the Bakerloo have been made a number of times to
Camberwell, Brixton, Peckham Tulse Hill and even (I can't remember the
source for this one) Hayes.

I don't think that it was geology that was the dominant blocker. Under
the New Works Programme, undertaken to relieve the Depression,
parliamentary powers were obtained in 1931 to build the Camberwell
extension.with a terminus under Camberwell Green However, London
Transport were not convinced that the route would pay.and the project
was postponed. The Camberwell powers were renewed in 1955 prolonging
their validity to 1961 but were allowed to lapse in favour of the
Victoria Line extension to Brixton. In 1963 the London Transport board
considered an extension to Peckham. The 1974 London Rail Study
believed the cost benefit case to be weak and so Camberwell like
sleeping beauty nodded off until most recently in 2006

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Having missed the Olympic Bus or more properly the Olympic tube the
residents of Camberwell now have to wait until post 2015 with say
another five years of political argy-bargy and a five year
construction period they might, as part of the London 2025 plan, get
direct access to that Latin quarter of Bushey known to the locals as
Watford Junction in just under a century.

The plans for the 1931 extension and the supporting papers for the
1974 London rail study should been in archive..Perhaps, Charlie Hulme
could be kind enough to suggest an access route. I vaguely remember
some papers published by the Royal Statistical Society about cost
benefit analysis at that time. In pre computer days statistics used to
be simple - grossly inaccurate but simple. :-)