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Updated Crossrail 2 route protected
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-septem ber.org, at 15:54:07 on Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Recliner remarked: We are working hard to deliver Crossrail 2 by 2030." So given the track record (groan) of Thameslink 2000, we can expect it to open in about 2048? -- Roland Perry |
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Updated Crossrail 2 route protected
Roland Perry wrote:
In message -septem ber.org, at 15:54:07 on Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Recliner remarked: We are working hard to deliver Crossrail 2 by 2030." So given the track record (groan) of Thameslink 2000, we can expect it to open in about 2048? Yes, if they're still moving the route around, completion by 2030 seems highly unlikely. Your guess seems as good as any. |
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So given the track record (groan) of Thameslink 2000, we can expect it to
open in about 2048? Yes, if they're still moving the route around, completion by 2030 seems highly unlikely. Your guess seems as good as any. ====================================== To quote from my rule book. "Expect movement on any track, in any direction at anytime." Cheers Roger T. |
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Updated Crossrail 2 route protected
On 2015\03\24 21:04, Roger T. wrote:
So given the track record (groan) of Thameslink 2000, we can expect it to open in about 2048? Yes, if they're still moving the route around, completion by 2030 seems highly unlikely. Your guess seems as good as any. ====================================== To quote from my rule book. "Expect movement on any track, in any direction at anytime." Am I the only one who think the Seven Sisters - Alexandra Palace branch is like an April Fool joke? I might be able to see some sense in it if they could reopen the abandoned alignment and extend it to Stratford over existing lines, but as a new build tunnel linking to a line almost exactly at right angles to it, nuts! What's going on there? Has some survey determined that there is an unusually high proportion of transvestite dwarves in that area, a demographic hitherto neglected by transport planners? |
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Updated Crossrail 2 route protected
On 24/03/2015 21:46, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2015\03\24 21:04, Roger T. wrote: So given the track record (groan) of Thameslink 2000, we can expect it to open in about 2048? Yes, if they're still moving the route around, completion by 2030 seems highly unlikely. Your guess seems as good as any. ====================================== To quote from my rule book. "Expect movement on any track, in any direction at anytime." Am I the only one who think the Seven Sisters - Alexandra Palace branch is like an April Fool joke? I might be able to see some sense in it if they could reopen the abandoned alignment and extend it to Stratford over existing lines, but as a new build tunnel linking to a line almost exactly at right angles to it, nuts! What's going on there? Has some survey determined that there is an unusually high proportion of transvestite dwarves in that area, a demographic hitherto neglected by transport planners? You've not see the TD-TSI amendment in the fourth railway package, then? -- Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK |
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Updated Crossrail 2 route protected
On 2015\03\24 22:00, Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 24/03/2015 21:46, Basil Jet wrote: Am I the only one who think the Seven Sisters - Alexandra Palace branch is like an April Fool joke? I might be able to see some sense in it if they could reopen the abandoned alignment and extend it to Stratford over existing lines, but as a new build tunnel linking to a line almost exactly at right angles to it, nuts! What's going on there? Has some survey determined that there is an unusually high proportion of transvestite dwarves in that area, a demographic hitherto neglected by transport planners? You've not see the TD-TSI amendment in the fourth railway package, then? I have no idea what this means! |
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On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:46:55 +0000
Basil Jet wrote: Am I the only one who think the Seven Sisters - Alexandra Palace branch is like an April Fool joke? I might be able to see some sense in it if Given how up and coming Muswell Hill is these days and the amount of bus traffic that crawls around there, I'd suggest re-opening the Highgate to Alexandra Palace branch wouldn't be a bad idea. The trackbed is still mostly extant and there could be a shuttle service to highgate high level where pax could walk down to the main northern line at the low level. -- Spud |
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that Muswell Hill, like Roehampton, has no rail service of any kind. That abandoned route has now been partly built over (near Muswell Hill Road) so it is unlikely to be fully reopened. A more likely candidate for reopening is the route between Highgate and Finsbury Park which still exists as a popular walkway (aka public footpath) as far as the ECML. The flyover bridge of course is long gone. If that route were re-adopted and a bridge re-installed, your long-championed route via Finsbury Park through Canonbury Tunnel would become feasible. Obviously the idea would suffer from not-invented-here syndrome as the so-called experts would immediately poo-poo the proposal. In the very very long term, London Underground should examine the feasiblity of a new Underground line starting at Arnos Groves, proceeding via New Southgate, Muswell Hill, Highgate, Upper Holloway and Camden Road to Euston and through the centre of London. |
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Updated London Crossrail 2 route protected
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Updated London Crossrail 2 route protected
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:07:24 +0000, e27002 aurora
wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:16:11 +0000 (UTC), wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:46:55 +0000 Basil Jet wrote: Am I the only one who think the Seven Sisters - Alexandra Palace branch is like an April Fool joke? I might be able to see some sense in it if Given how up and coming Muswell Hill is these days and the amount of bus traffic that crawls around there, I'd suggest re-opening the Highgate to Alexandra Palace branch wouldn't be a bad idea. The trackbed is still mostly extant and there could be a shuttle service to highgate high level where pax could walk down to the main northern line at the low level. Corrected version. The closure of the Northern City route to Muswell Hill never made sense. AFAIR it was somewhat under-used at the time and was closed even before the dreaded Doctor came on the scene. Nor did cutting back the Northern Line to Mill Hill East. It did to the motorway builders. Big Mistake 2 didn't help a lot either but Green-belting took away much of what had been intended future traffic. Had the extension been built to Mill Hill Broadway, today North Londoners would have had a short cut to Thameslink. cough 221, 240 /cough |
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