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Default CrossRail and City Airport

Dave Arquati wrote in message ...
Alex Terrell wrote:
I received the new CrossRail consultation document today. Apparantly
Silvertown and North Woolwich stations are to be closed, and Customs
House station, serving the Excel conference centre, will be enhanced.

Is this an opportunity to provide a rail shuttle service between
Customs House and City Airport? This would be a big improvement over
the current arrangements for accessing City airport, and would also
benefit the conference centre (like the Birmingham Airport / NEC /
Rail Station complex.

Ideally, the shuttle would be small traqins running every 5 minutes of
so.


AKA Docklands Light Railway extension from Canning Town to London City
Airport. Frequency will be every 12 mins initially then every 6 mins
once demand increases. Once the further extension to Woolwich opens,
frequency might increase to 4 mins.

The Thames tunnel portal will be around here somewhere (before the
Connaught tunnel) so it will probably "break" the North Woolwich branch.

Also, the current City Airport terminal is too small. Could they
provide check in facilities at Customs House station?

One other thought - the new tunnel to East of Customs House will be
under utilised, as it will only take half the CrossRail services.
Could the North London line be extended to Abbey Wood and Dartford?
That would open up Stratford, which is becoming an important hub in
its own right, to North Kent.


Already suggested. 8tph Crossrail and 4tph North London Line would
terminate in central platforms at Abbey Wood, with 4tph Crossrail
continuing to Ebbsfleet.

However this depends on whether the DLR takes over the NLL between
Canning Town and Stratford in order to easily serve Stratford
International. Either way it will be possible to provide through trains
between Woolwich and Stratford or Abbey Wood and Stratford.


It seems the DLR Thames tunnel, the CrossRail Thames tunnel, and the
London Gateway bridge (with tram?) decisions are being taken
independently. With the CrossRail tunnle, I'd have thought the DLR
tunnel would be come a bit of a luxury.

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