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The Victoria line was Flying terminus was Connectivity
Tom Anderson wrote:
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Dave Arquati wrote: (snip) The Victoria line is essentially full at the moment. Next question, then - how come? It has a pretty decent 28.5 tph, it's the shortest proper line in the whole network, and all but one of its stations are on other lines as well! For northbound trais to be be full at Victoria, Brixton, Stockwell, Vauxhall and Pimlico would have to be generating as many passengers as all the Northern line stations from Morden to Kennington put together, or the Piccadilly line stations from Cockfosters to Caledonian Road. I don't know those areas terribly well, and i realise that at least some of them are very densely populated areas, but that seems quite surprising. Is it because there are few people getting off the line before central London? I guess a lot of Picc passengers switch to the Vic at Finsbury Park, and perhaps Northern passengers to the Vic at Stockwell! Or is the Victoria line picking up a lot of passengers from the suburban railway network? Well, according to the London Transport Strategy, in the morning peak, the Victoria line is currently "very crowded" (i.e. operating in excess of or near to planned capacity) northbound between Victoria and Green Park, and southbound between Finsbury Park and King's Cross, and Euston and Warren Street. Between Stockwell and Victoria it's just "busy" northbound. The Northern line is "very crowded" northbound from Clapham Common to Stockwell, after which it becomes "crowded" from there to Kennington, suggesting a significant number of passengers transfer from the Northern to the Victoria at Stockwell. As I'd expect, the "very crowded" section north from Victoria indicates that the line picks up an extremely high number of passengers from the rail terminus, and it's on this Victoria - Green Park section that capacity has been reached. Adding any stations further south would mean those rail transfer passengers being left behind on the platform. Unfortunately the diagrams in the Transport Strategy don't go beyond Finsbury Park - but the Piccadilly southbound is at capacity already at least between Finsbury Park and KXSP. Incidentally, 2010 projections have the eastbound Piccadilly line operating at capacity all the way from Barons Court to Hyde Park Corner (presumably by which time, some passengers are so fed up they just get off and get the bus!). -- Dave Arquati Imperial College, SW7 www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London |