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November 26th 08, 03:40 PM
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Crossrail NOT making connections
On Nov 26, 4:49*am, Robert wrote:
On 2008-11-26 11:34:18 +0000, Roland Perry said: In message , at 09:43:21 on Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Michael Bell remarked: But it REALLY GRATES to see NEW NON-LINKS being created. eg Crossrail crosses the North London Line and the Tube in a triangle just east of Acton Main Line. It would be a very useful junction, the equivalent in North-West London of Stratford in North-East London. You could build a platform over the rails, build flats and a shopping centre on it, make enough money to offset the cost of linking the Northern Line to the North London Line near Camden. East Acton station could be moved to interchange with the buses on Du Cane road, where it should always have been if the Metropolitan railway hadn't played silly-buggers against the buses. But no! Joined-up thinking cannot be allowed to stand in the way of getting the commuters to The City. If that's not a dying industry! What I'd expect to find is that such an arrangement has been considered, but the flows of passengers it would tempt at peak times would create big problems at other points on the network. I would suggest that is not an argument for doing nothing. If there is a problem somewhere, then solve it. It is anyhow very difficult to predict exactly what the consequences of the change will be on flows elsewhere on the network as it generally takes a few years before flows settle down after a change. When the next bottleneck appears, then solve that one. In view of the number of trains planned to pass westwards through the central tunnel which will terminate at Paddington, it would seem quite feasible to make a junction with the Willesden Junction to Richmond line somewhere near Old Oak Common/Wormwood Scrubs and extend some trains to Richmond. Or if more money were to become available, then extend them even further west along the route to Staines. Shepperton anyone? Or Terminal 5 from the west? This whole business of terminating Crossrail trains at Paddington is a nonesense. |
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