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West London Line - what recession?
Stephen Furley wrote:
On 25 Oct, 19:40, TheOneKEA wrote: Keep in mind that Kensington Olympia's former up loop can easily be restored to add additional passing/recess capabilities on the up side of the WLL. If trains to and from Shepherd's Bush begin to non-stop Kenny O in favour of West Brompton, this may be very useful when pathing the service. Possible maybe, but it doesn't look easy to me. You'd have to demolish the new platform and re-build the old one. What would you do with the Southbound service while you were doing that? Use the current platform while rebuilding the old platform to modern standards over the necessary length, say 8 coaches? A temporary, moveable flat bridge would be needed to access the currently in use platform. Demolish half the current platform (you'd to retain a four coach lengh for the current service) and provide the new running line in front of the renewed old platform, as a short platform loop off the through line. Then demolish the remaining current platform and extend the loop to whatever length you want to allow for increase line speeds on entry/exit. Alternatively, having completely rebuilt the old platform, demolish the current platform and provide the full length loop in a 'big bang' closure of a few weeks. I also suspect that if they were to do it now, the weekday timetable could be worked with one platform. Once the LO service frequency is doubled that will probably no longer be possible. Paul S |
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