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Barking-Greenford?
Colin McKenzie wrote:
If tube tunnels were dug between West Ealing and just east of Ealing Broadway, it would free up surface capacity at Ealing Broadway station for the desperately-needed rebuilding. Indeed. Ealing Broadway is an excellent example of the brutalist architectural paradigm that gave us London Euston... There are endless options, and I think a wholesale reorganisation of services might be beneficial, because - the area needs north-south rail services Roll on the Park Royal interchange... - the line parallel to the Central line is ridiculously under-used Because there's no capacity at Paddington. Considering that 14tph is going to terminate at Paddington, perhaps it would be sensible to see if electrifying Old Oak West - North Acton - Park Royal and running 6tph up there to interchange with the Picc/Central at PR might be useful. It would probably empty North Acton to PR and Ealing Common to PR, but the branches beyond there would get much busier; if the buses could be rejigged, the effects could get even better. - passengers beyond Northolt are not best served by an all-stations service There's always the option of electrifying all the way to West Ruislip and interchanging with Chiltern - though that would probably decimate the Ruislip branch of the Central. A better option would be to find a spare bit of brownfield land next to the old GW line and building a largish carpark on it, with good access from the A40. Then you could extend more tph from Paddington to the new parkway station and abstract traffic off of the A40. Plus there's also the fact that Greenford still has an NR service to Paddington; if that does get cut back to West Ealing, adding a mini-curve to the Greenford triangle and running some of that wasted tph up _there_ could be investigated as well. |
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