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West London Line - what recession?
On Oct 26, 9:37*pm, EE507 wrote:
The real issue is platforms 16 and 17 at CLJ. SDO can't be used with the sort of loadings these trains experience, but straightening and lengthening the platforms won't happen any time soon. CLJ 16 and 17 will never be sorted out, so why bother when LOROL will be a 4-car max railway forever more? I would have thought the most significant length constraint would be Willesden Junction (for LO trains obviously not SN). To extend that to 8-car would involve bridging WCML and that would not come cheap. As there would be no benefit to LO in 8car trains if Willesden Junycion were never done, the entire cost of 8car works on WLL would be born by the SN operation. IMHO a fundamental flaw in the LO / WLL / NLL / ELL shceme is being geared around 4car trains. At this period in 21st century we should be talking *absolute mnimum* 8-car trains by 2015 with passive provision for 12car, and I'd say even 15-car (300 m length). Crossrail should certainly be passively provided for 300 m; I'd like to have seen TL likewise too. What is going on with these lengthening schemes is fixing yesterdays after tomorrow has started; there is minimal provision for todays problems, and none for tomorrows. This is why NEW tube lines - be they tube size or main line size - need to get under way now as they take 10 years to build even once planning is done, and that takes years too. -- Nick |
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