Metropolitan Line to be extended
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Metropolitan Line to be extended
Offramp wrote:
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/n...ng-agreed.html I keep thinking it's all systems go with this long-delayed project, and then hear there's been yet another final agreement. I wonder how many more times? It's amazing that it's taken this long and will cost so much, to build a short new viaduct and reinstate a mothballed line that's largely intact. |
Metropolitan Line to be extended
On 2015\11\24 00:30, Recliner wrote:
Offramp wrote: http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/n...ng-agreed.html I keep thinking it's all systems go with this long-delayed project, and then hear there's been yet another final agreement. I wonder how many more times? It's amazing that it's taken this long and will cost so much, to build a short new viaduct and reinstate a mothballed line that's largely intact. Construction of the Metropolitan Railway from Paddington to Farringdon, cut and cover most of the way, started in March 1860 and it opened to the public in January 1863. So this construction is planned to take significantly longer. |
Metropolitan Line to be extended
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2015\11\24 00:30, Recliner wrote: Offramp wrote: http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/n...ng-agreed.html I keep thinking it's all systems go with this long-delayed project, and then hear there's been yet another final agreement. I wonder how many more times? It's amazing that it's taken this long and will cost so much, to build a short new viaduct and reinstate a mothballed line that's largely intact. Construction of the Metropolitan Railway from Paddington to Farringdon, cut and cover most of the way, started in March 1860 and it opened to the public in January 1863. So this construction is planned to take significantly longer. I know, it's crazy that an entirely above-ground short railway, mostly built on an existing trackbed, is taking longer to (re)build than a complex cut-and-cover pioneering railway did 150+ years earlier. I think it's also taken much longer to plan and agree it. |
Metropolitan Line to be extended
On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 03:00:45 UTC, Basil Jet wrote:
Construction of the Metropolitan Railway from Paddington to Farringdon, cut and cover most of the way, started in March 1860 and it opened to the public in January 1863. So this construction is planned to take significantly longer. LOROL! That is pretty funny! |
Metropolitan Line to be extended
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Paul Corfield wrote: On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:30:33 -0000 (UTC), Recliner wrote: Offramp wrote: http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/n...ng-agreed.html I keep thinking it's all systems go with this long-delayed project, and then hear there's been yet another final agreement. I wonder how many more times? It's amazing that it's taken this long and will cost so much, to build a short new viaduct and reinstate a mothballed line that's largely intact. I think we are now done. The latest problem was caused by the valuation of transferred land from HCC to TfL. TfL, as part of the transfer arrangements, have reviewed all cost estimates, value of works done so far plus transferred assets. This meant a hole was found in the funding package and HCC refused to top up the gap even though their valuation caused the issue. This article describes Hertfordshire's GBP 2.73 million wizzard wheeze of paying for the link with disused trackbed they bought for one pound. http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/rail-news/tfl-must-plug-273-croxley-link-shortfall-after-council-offers-1-wasteland Nick -- "The Internet, a sort of ersatz counterfeit of real life" -- Janet Street-Porter, BBC2, 19th March 1996 |
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