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Easy interchanges in London (Waterloo vs St. Pancras International)
Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In article .com, John B writes In general, it seems to me that the Victoria line was a high point in terms of easy connexions - cross-platform interchange wherever possible, often created thanks to considerable ingenuity. But why didn't they go for x-platform at Green Park and Warren Street...? Green Park is due to simple geometry: get a map and remember that the Piccadilly is running under Piccadilly with the station under the intersection with Dover Street. Now try to construct a route with reasonable curvature that gives you cross-platform interchange. It's just not practical. Quite - having cross-platform interchange would have introduce a massive kink into the Victoria line, which would have gone against it's 'fast and straight' philosophy. Warren Street was deliberate. In the early 1960s there was much more traffic on the Charing Cross branch of the Northern than the Bank branch. Therefore the interchanges with the Victoria were deliberately arranged to encourage people on to the Bank branch and not to use the CX one, thus evening up the flows somewhat. In hindsight that may seem the wrong decision, but we have 40 years more data to work on. And has already been pointed out, cross-platform interchange at Oxford Circus with the Bakerloo means passengers for Charing Cross, Embankment and Waterloo can use that line to get to those destinations (though of course the Bakerloo station at Charing X is really underneath Trafalgar Square and is thus a short subterranean trek away from the mainline station). Warren Street (Vic) is very close to Goodge Street (Northern) - so most passengers can quite reasonably use that station instead. Which leaves Tottenham Court Road as the only central area destination with a more awkward interchange at Euston or Warren Street. Going south, for any destination from Stockwell southwards passengers should stay on the Victoria line, so that leaves Kennington and Oval as the only other two destinations where one must make a more awkward change. Of course a fundamental issue is that the Oxford Circus cross-platform goodness isn't at all apparent on the Tube map. |
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