On Dec 13, 9:26*pm, wrote:
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On Dec 13, 8:37*pm, The Gardener wrote:
On the subject of Watford, I can only agree with those who say "and
not before time". This is the sort of project that should be
championed: relatively low-cost and largely using disused or under-
used heavy rail lines, to optimise their utility.

1948 would have been a good time to start this project, :-), if not
sooner.

1925, surely, when the Met branch was built?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Well, the Met branch as it stands is only half the job - it was
intended to continue under the park, weave a little south, then head
up under Clarendon Road to Watford Junction...upon which I suspect the
Met had set it's eyes on the St. Albans branch. New station to be
provided at Watford Town where Clarendon Road meets the High Street,
currently the famous Weatherspoons station

This is pretty much the only proposal that would be better than the
Croxley rail link, and even then it doesn't offer a station in the
centre of west Watford, though it does offer one at the top end of
town, where one would be most welcome.

....phase 2 of my plans are now to get the diveunder south of Watford
Junction built next

Having done some musing about the situation around there, I wonder if
the branch does prove popular, that there won't be the capacity for
Chiltern to run services from Amersham over it. In that case,
reinstate the disused line to Rickmansworth up to where the Met
crosses it, then build a grade-separated junction up to the fast
lines. Chiltern gets to skip the local stations at Croxley, Ascot Road
and Watford Hospital, and the Met can terminate some services at the
current Watford Met to free paths for Chiltern services. Watford High
Street is going to become quite the bottleneck even without all
these...