Dave Arquati wrote:
TfL have announced their branding plans for the North London Railway
concession:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/press-cent...t.asp?prID=886
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5316358.stm


The Brixton stop, as a future upgrade, strikes me as vital: it's a key
interchange with buses and the Victoria line, and a major centre in
itself. It may be a lot of money but - unlike something like
Loughborough Junction - I think it'd be worth spending.

There are a couple of other stops I'd be keen to see as well (York
Road, North Pole/North Acton) that are less important and very possibly
not worth the money. Something that could be done relatively cheaply,
though, would be to improve signage so that other existing stations
could act as on street interchanges - Walthamstow, Hackney, Forest
Gate/Wanstead Park and Swiss Cottage/South Hampsted are all obvious
examples that it might be worth showing on the map.

Also, as a longer term idea, it strikes me that the idea some locals
have proposed for a Clapham Junction-South East London route could be a
good addition to the network. A route that ran Clapham Junction-Peckham
Rye-Lewisham-Woolwich-Abbey Wood would provide a link from Crossrail
and City Airport to south London. Be even better if they built those
extra platforms at Brockley.

Sorry, just babbling, really.

JE

wrote:

There are a couple of other stops I'd be keen to see as well (York
Road, North Pole/North Acton)

This latter example would certainly address the issue of moving the
DC/AC changeover point south to Shepherd's Bush or the need to change
over whilst on the move. It would also bring rail to an area currently
poorly served by that mode, although I wouldn't like to hazard a guess
at the cost of a pair of eight-car (or even four-car) platforms in
order to do so.

THC

wrote:
There are a couple of other stops I'd be keen to see as well (York
Road, North Pole/North Acton) that are less important and very possibly
not worth the money.

I am still of the opinion that York Road Piccadilly should be reopened
as soon as possible - the regen frenzy of the Kings Cross Railway Lands
will eventually make it imperative to fill the hole.

The best part is that the station has lift shafts that descend all the
way to platform level, like the ones at Earl's Court and Caledonian
Road. As a result, all that would be needed is the construction of
escalators. If you build them in the right direction you may even be
able to do behind-barrier interchange with a new station on the NLL
(which is supposed to be close to the Piccadilly in this area).

TheOneKEA wrote:

I am still of the opinion that York Road Piccadilly should be reopened
as soon as possible - the regen frenzy of the Kings Cross Railway
Lands will eventually make it imperative to fill the hole.

The best part is that the station has lift shafts that descend all the
way to platform level, like the ones at Earl's Court and Caledonian
Road. As a result, all that would be needed is the construction of
escalators.

I don't see why escalators would be necessary, when Russell Square, Goodge
Street and Lancaster Gate get by without any.

Also, as a longer term idea, it strikes me that the idea some locals
have proposed for a Clapham Junction-South East London route could be a
good addition to the network. A route that ran Clapham Junction-Peckham
Rye-Lewisham-Woolwich-Abbey Wood would provide a link from Crossrail
and City Airport to south London. Be even better if they built those
extra platforms at Brockley.

I've heard about the Clapham Junction to Sidcup idea, but this in my opinion
seems mad. Clapham Junction to Plumstead service seems a far better idea,
with an extension to Abbey Wood if the extra platforms could be built.
Although I am not quite sure where the room to build the Crossrail platforms
is coming from, let alone any additional platforms.

If they ran the service to Plumstead/Abbey Wood throughout the course of the
day/evening, they could scrap the little used Cannon Street - Lewisham -
Plumstead trains and it would allow the Medway - Charing Cross semi-fast
service to continue to travel via Greenwich instead of the IKF plan to go
back to travelling via Lewisham.

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Keith Spink wrote:
Also, as a longer term idea, it strikes me that the idea some locals
have proposed for a Clapham Junction-South East London route could be a
good addition to the network. A route that ran Clapham Junction-Peckham
Rye-Lewisham-Woolwich-Abbey Wood would provide a link from Crossrail
and City Airport to south London. Be even better if they built those
extra platforms at Brockley.

I've heard about the Clapham Junction to Sidcup idea, but this in my opinion
seems mad. Clapham Junction to Plumstead service seems a far better idea,
with an extension to Abbey Wood if the extra platforms could be built.
Although I am not quite sure where the room to build the Crossrail platforms
is coming from, let alone any additional platforms.

If they ran the service to Plumstead/Abbey Wood throughout the course of the
day/evening, they could scrap the little used Cannon Street - Lewisham -
Plumstead trains and it would allow the Medway - Charing Cross semi-fast
service to continue to travel via Greenwich instead of the IKF plan to go
back to travelling via Lewisham.


Yeah, that was my thinking - it would, as much as such a performance
polluting route can, simply the service pattern rather than complicate
it, and hit quite a lot of interchanges.

The platform thing could be an issue though.

Jonn

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:20:05 +0100, Dave Arquati
wrote:

Rather than opting for the brown "Rail" roundel, the branding scheme is
an orange (!) "Overground" scheme - not to be confused with South
London's "Overground Network" branding.

http://i6.tinypic.com/47btbbq.jpg
http://i8.tinypic.com/2dr9g5u.jpg
http://i7.tinypic.com/402ntxj.jpg

Charlie
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