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[email protected] · July 16th 09, 12:52 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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"Mizter T" wrote in message
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On Jul 15, 8:52 pm, Mizter T wrote:

[snip John B's post]

Cripes. I can hardly believe it. I honestly thought it was all total
pie-in-the-sky stuff.

*If* this can honestly, really be done on a by privately funded basis,
then fair enough [...]

So surprised that I couldn't even construct sentences properly! You
see what I was trying to get at though.

A few thoughts. Initially I thought it a bit of a shame that it'd miss
Vauxhall altogether, though obviously on looking at this map [1] for
longer than five seconds one sees that the trajectory of the line
south of Kennington is all wrong for that:
http://tinyurl.com/Battersea-Extension-Map

Also a bit of a shame that it misses Oval station (well, winds around
it) -

Why?

What possible use would a Kennington to Oval line be, given that
there's already a Kennington to Oval line?

We were shown options, certainly for a station at Vauxhall and I think one
at Oval, in Parsons Brinkerhof's presentation at Rail 2009. I have the
notes on why they preferred a station at Nine Elms but not with me.

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Colin Rosenstiel