Now that the Woolwich Wanderers will definitely be moving, what chance
is there that Gillespie Road station will be restored to its correct
name by LU? Ashburton Grove will be linked in to Holloway Road
station.

"Billy Goatse" wrote:

Now that the Woolwich Wanderers will definitely be moving, what chance
is there that Gillespie Road station will be restored to its correct
name by LU? Ashburton Grove will be linked in to Holloway Road
station.

AIUI, the new stadium will also be linked into the existing Arsenal station.
Indeed, fans will be encouraged to travel to the new stadium using Finsbury
Park, Arsenal and Highbury & Islington stations - but will be discouraged
(not sure how!) from using Drayton Park or Holloway Road. That was
certainly the case when I looked at the plans a couple of years ago.


One of the alternative plans that the club rejected was a move to the King's
Cross railway lands. This scheme would have included re-opening York Road
station, to serve the new stadium. If this had happened, then a new name
for Arsenal (nee Gillespie Road) station would have been essential.



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writes

AIUI, the new stadium will also be linked into the existing Arsenal station.
Indeed, fans will be encouraged to travel to the new stadium using Finsbury
Park, Arsenal and Highbury & Islington stations - but will be discouraged
(not sure how!) from using Drayton Park or Holloway Road.

The fact that trains don't stop at Drayton Park at weekends is probably
quite discouraging for Saturday fixtures

Holloway Road is quite a problem because of the lifts, of course.

--
Paul Terry

I'll be interested to see how they improve Holloway Road station to cope
with the amount of people on matchdays. It's a very old station. It's only 5
minutes from the new ground, so is a better option than either of the other
three within the area, although none of them are that far away. If only
Spurs had more than one option than Seven Sisters.

Apart from matchdays is there a more underused station than Arsenal anyway?
Whenever I use it or walk past it feels like a ghost station.



Billy Goatse wrote in message
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Now that the Woolwich Wanderers will definitely be moving, what chance
is there that Gillespie Road station will be restored to its correct
name by LU? Ashburton Grove will be linked in to Holloway Road
station.

"Jamie" wrote in message
...

I'll be interested to see how they improve Holloway Road station to cope
with the amount of people on matchdays.

Spiral escalators would be nice. They must have got the bugs in that
prototype fixed by now.

Apart from matchdays is there a more underused station than Arsenal
anyway?

Yes, several.

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From: "John Rowland"
Date: 25/02/2004 21:24 GMT Standard Time

Spiral escalators would be nice. They must have got the bugs in that
prototype fixed by now.

I think you'll find they've got too many creepie-crawlie type bugs living in it
now to make it worthwhile exhuming. And anyway, where would you find a man with
a wooden leg these days to ride up and down on it to reassure the punters it's
safe?