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378s to be unveiled today - BBC
"Peter Masson" wrote in message ... "Graham Harrison" wrote in message ... There does seem to be a need for a passenger service between Willesden Junction and Ealing Broadway Interesting suggestion. While I don't disagree can you justify it? And, are you suggesting just that short hop or using that piece of track as part of something bigger (e.g. Barking (by electrifying Goblin) to Heathrow)? I doubt that there'd be enough passengers to justify taking Heathrow paths away from HEx and HConn/Crossrail. But how about Barking - Gospel Oak (would need rebuilding so that through trains could call) - Willesden Junction - Ealing Broadway - Greenford. There would be same platform interchange at Ealing Broadway for Heathrow, and it would give a better route to Heathrow from the FCC Bedford line and the Jubilee Stanmore line (via West Hampstead), and, at least if Willesden Junction were ever to gain Slow Line platforms, the Milton Keynes line. IMHO curtailing the Ealing Greenford line to a shuttle from West Ealing will be a considerable disbenefit - passengers for the LUL District Line will have to change twice at West Ealing and Ealing Broadway, though passengers for the Central Line will be able to circulate the other way via Greenford. Peter I wonder if curtailment at West Ealing is about capacity through the flat junction? Which makes any use of the line up to the NLL from the GWML an issue as well. Combine the 2 routes and I suspect you have a complete no-no so long as they remain flat junctions. It all depends what the real target is. Willesden Junction to Ealing would be nice but I can't really see it's a requirement. Willesden Junction to Heathrow makes more sense but other than using the GWML/NLL link the only other route I can see would be through South Acton then along the (unelectrified) line to Kew, along the Hounslow loop to wherever Airtrack joins (if that ever happens and if the junctions point the right way). |
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