Dave Arquati wrote:

Does anyone have news about that? I don't even have an estimated
completion date.

I haven't heard a thing about it lately. I suspect that it will roll
over and sink like the BLE proposals for Camberwell...


A Park Royal bus/train/tube interchange with some sort of
intermediate mode link to Willesden Junction and to Ealing to join
the West London Tram. In any case, there should be high quality
links to a Crossrail station to attract people from the west who
might otherwise drive. Acton Main Line would be a good candidate.

Are you talking about journeys off of the GWML onto the GW link line?


Ooh, the old park-and-ride problem. I think you'd actually generate
quite a bit of traffic on the A40 to the west as people switch from
the current stations to the parkway one. A parkway station would be
better off further out.

How about a four-tracked terminal station with an island platform where
the GW/GC crosses the M25? There's almost nothing along that part of
the corridor, so there'd be plenty of space for a park&ride.

And the best part is that Chiltern, Crossrail and the Central Line
would all benefit - Crossrail carries the heavy commuter traffic into
the city, Chiltern carries traffic from local areas along the M25 to
areas north, and people living on the upper part of the Central Line
can interchange to both and reach the parkway station.

The only issue is that Chiltern might want a piece of that commuter pie
as well...


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.

Presumably there isn't the traffic for it, otherwise they would have
suggested it.

If the through service is cut back to West Ealing, people will probably
switch to the Central Line anyway.