Crossrail NOT making connections
On Nov 26, 1:43*am, Michael Bell wrote:
It has always grated on me that there are about 2 dozen places in
London where rail routes cross each other without interchange.
Some are the result of Victorian era railway companies playing
silly-buggers against each other, eg the two Putneys. A fairly cheap
Swiss cableway cabin link could join these two.
Some are the result of engineering and historical accident, eg the
Northern Line and the North London Line. To dig through the few
hundred yards of clay and chalk separating these would be expensive.
But it REALLY GRATES to see NEW NON-LINKS being created. eg Crossrail
crosses the North London Line and the Tube in a triangle just east of
Acton Main Line. It would be a very useful junction, the equivalent in
North-West London of Stratford in North-East London. You could build a
platform over the rails, build flats and a shopping centre on it, make
enough money to offset the cost of linking the Northern Line to the
North London Line near Camden. East Acton station could be moved to
interchange with the buses on Du Cane road, where it should always
have been if the Metropolitan railway hadn't played silly-buggers
against the buses.
But no! Joined-up thinking cannot be allowed to stand in the way of
getting the commuters to The City. If that's not a dying industry!
It would be very hard to disagree with anything you are saying.
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