On May 14, 4:26 pm, Mr Thant
wrote:
They were, but London Overground seem to have settled on running an
all 4 car network for the foreseeable future. On the ELL extension
only Shoredtich High Street is being built with 8 car platforms - even
Dalston Junction, which will be stuck in the basement of new high rise
flats, is being built with 4 car bay platforms (not sure about the
through platforms).

I suppose that helps mitigate the Rotherhithe and Wapping issue
somewhat