Walthamstow Central update
 

On 6 Oct, 01:30, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
In article . com,



(lonelytraveller) wrote:
On 5 Oct, 20:07, wrote:
The original intention was for the Victoria line to come to the
surface, and terminate at Wood Street, giving a cross-platform
interchange to what were then the BR lines. This is one of three
cases where an extension has been shortened by one station from it's
intended destination, the others being Denham and Camberwell. Maybe
we
should propose extensions that go one stop beyond where we actually
want them to go. :)

I thought the Camberwell one was back on?
Besides, Camberwell wasn't the final destination, it was meant to go
to Lewisham.

Not in 1949 when trains were actually ordered for the extension, surely?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Yes, it was Walworth - Camberwell - Peckham - Forest Hill -
Catford - Bromley
Or emerge somewhere around Peckham and take over the British Rail line
to Lewisham and beyond to Addiscombe.

Walthamstow Central update
 

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Paul Corfield wrote:

Stations could be added at Forest Road, Fulbourne Rd / A406 and at
Chingford Hatch. You could possibly squeeze one in at Coppermill Lane as
well. Ideally more tram / train like vehicles with high acceleration and
braking should be provided to replace the current units which would
provide the requisite line capacity for a much more frequent service.

Interesting. ISTM that you wouldn't be able to provide as fast a service
down into town this way, if you really did use something tramlike; do you
think the improved local links would outweigh that disbenefit?

You could get better acceleration and braking whilst maintaining good top
speeds, i think, using something like S stock. Maybe that's not fast
enough, i dunno.

Perhaps the answer is a hybrid service, with proper trains serving the
existing stations, and tram/trains running on the same tracks and also
stopping at a set of halts in between. Should some kind of tram ever come
to northeast London, this could serve as its backbone. You wouldn't be
able to run a very frequent real train service, though, as you'd need to
fit the trams in between them, and the speed difference means that there
have to be quite long gaps between trams and trains.

tom

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Walthamstow Central update
 

In article .com,
(lonelytraveller) wrote:

On 6 Oct, 01:30, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
In article . com,

(lonelytraveller) wrote:
On 5 Oct, 20:07, wrote:
The original intention was for the Victoria line to come to the
surface, and terminate at Wood Street, giving a cross-platform
interchange to what were then the BR lines. This is one of three
cases where an extension has been shortened by one station from
it's intended destination, the others being Denham and
Camberwell. Maybe we should propose extensions that go one stop
beyond where we actually want them to go. :)

I thought the Camberwell one was back on?
Besides, Camberwell wasn't the final destination, it was meant
to go to Lewisham.

Not in 1949 when trains were actually ordered for the extension,
surely?

Yes, it was Walworth - Camberwell - Peckham - Forest Hill -
Catford - Bromley
Or emerge somewhere around Peckham and take over the British Rail
line to Lewisham and beyond to Addiscombe.

Evidence? If so, why was it always only referred to as the Camberwell
extension in e.g. books on the history of the 1938TS?

--
Colin Rosenstiel