On Jan 8, 6:33*pm, "Peter Masson" wrote:
"Mizter T" wrote





Of course the new DLR link will obviously provide a very useful
interchange with the North Kent line for people heading to the
Docklands. However there wouldn't appear to be an appreciable
difference to journey times for those heading to the big Docklands
traffic destination of Canary Wharf - from Woolwich Arsenal, the JP
gives a 20-22 min journey to CW via Canning Town and a change on to
the Jubilee line (though this is a very easy interchange).

Meanwhile journey time from Woolwich Arsenal to Greenwich on the North
Kent line is 13 minutes, then a pretty easy change there on to the DLR
with a journey time of 11 or 12 minutes on to CW (so a total of 24/25
mins). Of course any journey with an interchange adds time, especially
if the connection ain't great (though the DLR does run a turn up and
go service, esp. during the peaks). So when I ask JP for a journey
from Woolwich Arsenal to CW *via* Greenwich then it gives a journey
time of between 27-29 minutes.

It could be particularly useful for passengers originating from east of
Dartford - their morning peak trains tend to call only at Abbey Wood between
Dartford and Woolwich Arsenal, and then run via Blackheath, so they will
save quite a bit of time by changing to DLR at Woolwich Arsenal (whether
they get to Canary Wharf by changing to Jubilee Line at Canning Town, or via
Poplar and a short walk).

Add to that the fact that peak services from Woolwich tend not to stop
at Lewisham: the alternative connection to the DLR (one recently
started doing so at 0818). But it probably wasn't too bad to change
at Abbey Wood to a following Greenwich line service (before it got too
crowded).

On the Poplar thing, I still wonder, if the journey planner had
existed in the early 1970s, whether it would have advised people to go
from Strand to Trafalgar Square via Charing Cross (now Embankment).

mind wanders off on tangent

I just put in Kings Cross to Regents Park, and it didn't suggest
changing at Baker Street (good), but it gave me options of bus all the
way, LU to Great Portland Street and then bus (supposedly taking eight
minutes, but I'm sure I could walk it in one) or walk the whole way.

But bizarrely not LU to GPS and walk, even though it's happy to
suggest walking all the way.