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The Victoria line was Flying terminus was Connectivity
Tom Anderson wrote: 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? Since Brixton's NR service is pretty feeble, IME far more people (myself included) join the Victoria Line at Brixton from buses. It acts as a (pretty unpleasant) parkway station for a huge area of tubeless London, and I think is the busiest station outside Zone 1. If only it had a decent bus interchange (like Hammersmith)! As Annabel and others have already pointed out, it also takes a large amount of the Northern Line's central London passengers at Stockwell! |