Crossrail NOT making connections
On Nov 26, 4:49*am, Robert wrote:
On 2008-11-26 11:34:18 +0000, Roland Perry said:
In message , at
09:43:21 on Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Michael Bell
remarked:
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!
What I'd expect to find is that such an arrangement has been
considered, but the flows of passengers it would tempt at peak times
would create big problems at other points on the network.
I would suggest that is not an argument for doing nothing. If there is
a problem somewhere, then solve it. It is anyhow very difficult to
predict exactly what the consequences of the change will be on flows
elsewhere on the network as it generally takes a few years before flows
settle down after a change. When the next bottleneck appears, then
solve that one.
In view of the number of trains planned to pass westwards through the
central tunnel which will terminate at Paddington, it would seem quite
feasible to make a junction with the Willesden Junction to Richmond
line somewhere near Old Oak Common/Wormwood Scrubs and extend some
trains to Richmond. Or if more money were to become available, then
extend them even further west along the route to Staines. Shepperton
anyone? Or Terminal 5 from the west?
This whole business of terminating Crossrail trains at Paddington is a
nonesense.
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