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"Roland Perry" wrote in message ... In message , at 12:06:12 on Sat, 16 May 2009, remarked: Why? It's not as if the docks are required for shipping any more. They are part of the landscape. If not, why didn't they just fill them in when they started building the area - it would have been so much simpler. Having scanned a few of the many press releases now, some of the excavated material from this site is being used to backfill the dock outside the piling, up to the minimum depth 'at the access routes' - which I take to mean the top cill at the entrance locks. I assume this reduces the pressure against the lower levels of the concrete walls? Another point I've just spotted is there are other station names that are supposedly provisional - they quote Liverpool St and Farringdon for instance, as they link to Moorgate and Barbican respectively. To save searching can anyone remember where the other ends of the Bond St and Tottenham Court Rd stations are - IIRC they aren't near existing stations though. Paul S |
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On May 16, 8:47 pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote: Another point I've just spotted is there are other station names that are supposedly provisional - they quote Liverpool St and Farringdon for instance, as they link to Moorgate and Barbican respectively. Looking at street names I think "Smithfield" might be a reasonable name for the Farringdon/Barbican Crossrail station, if you didn't want to name it one of those, or possibly Charterhouse. Given Liverpool Street's prominence as a terminus, I can't imagine them going for "Finsbury Circus"... -- Abi |
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"Paul Scott" wrote.. To save searching can anyone remember where the other ends of the Bond St and Tottenham Court Rd stations are - IIRC they aren't near existing stations though. Both extend widely to new entrances (eg TCR will new entrances at Hanocer square and near Centre point), but neither will impinge on neighbouring stations. I'm pretty sure that L'pool St/Moorgate and Farringdon/Barbican are the only ones where this is an issue. Station naming is a big issue for the fire brigade - I recall a few years ago a proposal to rename Monument as Bank, which has a certain logic, but with some 12 entrances (I made that up - but there's plenty), the LFB reckoned that getting to the right one in event of fire or terrorist activity was going to be a tad difficult. -- Andrew |
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Sat, 16 May 2009, Paul Corfield remarked: Hanover Square / Tenterden St behind Oxford St / Oxford Circus is the eastern exit point for Bond St Station. IIRC there is no physical link to Oxford Circus tube station. Only in London could we fail to provide such a link. Perhaps a "crowd control" feature. They want to spread the people out by making them take a roundabout route. -- Roland Perry |
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"Paul Corfield" wrote in message ... Hanover Square / Tenterden St behind Oxford St / Oxford Circus is the eastern exit point for Bond St Station. IIRC there is no physical link to Oxford Circus tube station. Only in London could we fail to provide such a link. To provide such an interchange here would probably add so much to the cost of the scheme that it would never happen. I limit my use of Oxford Circus to the cross platform interchanges between the Victoria and Bakerloo lines, and that's bad enough. The thought of adding a load of Crossrail passengers to the scrum doesn't bear thinking about. It would make more sense to add an interchange as part of a (much needed) rebuild of Oxford Circus station, rather than trying to do it as part of Crossrail. David A Stocks |
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