On 15 July, 22:12, "David A Stocks" wrote:
"Mizter T" wrote in message

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On Jul 15, 3:11 pm, "David A Stocks" wrote:
"tim....." wrote:
"Graham Harrison" wrote:
My first reaction was "Seems a pity not to connect either proposed
station with any other rail/underground station even if it's only
Battersea Park." but thinking about it what sort of travel
opportunities
would that open? Not many I suspect. Going on to Clapham Junction
might
be worthwhile but even then I'm not wholly convinced.

It helps everyone who arrives on the Victoria "side" who wants to go to
the city.

Almost anyone arriving on the Victoria side who wants to go to the city
is
on the wrong train in the first place. They should go to London Bridge
instead.
Easier said than done in some circumstances though - look at the south
eastern lines that only serve Victoria. A recent example was Maidstone
- peak trains only go to Victoria from this Kentish town, though there
are off-peak trains to London Bridge (but the capacity at London
Bridge presumably isn't there for a peak time service).

Yes, I can see that some of the South Eastern commuters are stuffed as far
as direct services to the City are concerned. HOWEVER, Tim was talking about
people arriving on the Southern platforms at *Clapham Junction* (he called
it the Victoria "side"). South Eastern don't serve CLJ at all. I think all
the stations between East Croydon and Clapham Junction get some kind of
direct service to London Bridge, although one may well be better off
changing to the Northern line at Balham. An extended Charing X branch
Northern Line service to Clapham Junction is of very little use to SN pax
wanting access to the City.

My reply got put in completely the wrong place in Google; don't know
what happened for proper newsreaders.

Anyway, to expand on what I was saying, I don't think that there are
any southeastern origins which lack services to London Bridge without
offering peak services to Elephant (for the City branch and Bakerloo)
and now also to Farringdon and St Pancras.