"Basil Jet" wrote in message
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lonelytraveller wrote:

That leaves a huge area - around camberwell - utterly without any rail
connection, and certainly without one that's useful for getting into
town.

The only way to plug the gap is for the northern line to go to
camberwell.

The fact that Camberwell contains a road called "Camberwell Station Road"
shows the flaw in that argument.

Taking the northern line to battersea really messes that possibility
up, and essentially precludes it ever occurring.

No - sending half the trains to Battersea and half to Camberwell probably
matches supply with demand better than a single extension.

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I'm missing something. Not so many years ago the Northern Line was a joke.
That was partly about the state of the physical plant but also about the
amount of traffic on offer that couldn't fit through the system. So they
did something about the plant and now the situation is better but by no
means perfect and we're talking about increasing the load again?

How much of the traffic from Battersea will want to go to the West End?
How much will be transferring at Kennington? Probably an imponderable at
the moment but there has to be some and I suspect a bit more than a small
amount.

Like I say, I must be missing something. The Northern Line feels like it's
been chosen simply because it's the cheapest solution.