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Old October 25th 09, 11:31 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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Default West London Line - what recession?

On Oct 25, 7:06*pm, Stephen Furley wrote:
Possible maybe, but it doesn't look easy to me. *You'd have to
demolish the new platform and re-build the old one. *What would you do
with the Southbound service while you were doing that? *The present
service couldn't be handled in both directions on just one platform as
it used to be. *I'm not certain, but I don't think the full width of
the old platform is still available at the North end (can anybody
confirm this, or otherwise?), so the length of the platform might be
limited.


The full platform length is still available, and all three lines
through Kenny O are bidirectional, with crossovers to match. IMHO it
should be relatively simple to use the single down platform for
services that call at Kenny O, with the remainder calling at West
Brompton for onward travel via District Line or buses.


Given that regular inter-city services, and empty stock Eurostars, are
no more I doubt that you'd want to non-stop Kensington Olympia; there
are still a fair number of events held there, and during some of them
the station gets quite busy.


True, but that traffic is cyclic and predictable - patronage at
Westfield is less predictable, and the interchange with LU is much
better at West Brompton than it is at Kenny O.