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Bye North London Line
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, sweek wrote:
On 23 Jun, 22:13, "Graham Harrison" wrote: "sweek" wrote in message ups.com... How about moving Chiswick Park to where the North London Line crosses the Piccadilly and District platforms, and biulding platforms for all three of them? I suppose it'd be quite expensive, but that way a single line could be kept, and interchange between the three lines could be provided quite easily. there's quite a bit of space on the sout-western side of the tracks for a station building according to Google Earth. That's more or less what i was suggesting. I haven't lloked at GE but I suspect the land you're referring to is the old Chiswick Works. Oh, and close Gunnersbury? I wouldn't close Gunnersbury, because the situation stays pretty much the same as it is now. The distance between Chiswick Park and Gunnersbury now is the same as it would be in the new situation. And they serve different branches of the District line, so I guess they both have their use. Indeed. A trianglur situation like this is actually quite annoying from a station point of view, because there's nowhere you can put a single station that will allow all interchanges, except in the middle - and in this case, it's a nature reserve! I would close South Acton, though. Now, while we've got out A-Zs on the same page, i should mention the shameful lack of interchange between any of these lines and the Brentford Loop. Two curves and some platforms, and you could route the NLL and District via Kew Bridge, plus you'd create an opportunity for the three-way interchange discussed above - in fact, you could get both branches of the District. Bit in the middle of nowhere, though. Although if some future mayor decided to turn that cluster of industrial estates into a high-density housing project ... tom -- Once you notice that something doesn't seem to have all the necessary parts to enable its functions, it is going to mildly bug you until you figure it out. -- John Rowland |
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