On Jan 26, 6:00*pm, "Basil Jet"
wrote:

lonelytraveller wrote:
That leaves a huge area - around camberwell - utterly without any rail
connection, and certainly without one that's useful for getting into
town.

The only way to plug the gap is for the northern line to go to
camberwell.

The fact that Camberwell contains a road called "Camberwell Station Road"
shows the flaw in that argument.

Taking the northern line to battersea really messes that possibility
up, and essentially precludes it ever occurring.

No - sending half the trains to Battersea and half to Camberwell probably
matches supply with demand better than a single extension.

Two new branches of the Northern line you mean?

I kinda think a straightforward separate extension of the Bakerloo to
Camberwell would be preferable, though doing that would inevitably
exclude the option of a direct route for a Bakerloo extension from E&C
to Lewisham via New Cross, more or less along the course of the Old
Kent Road.

However my basic take on it is that extending the Bakerloo to
Camberwell should take precedence - and from there it could go on to
Peckham, Herne Hill, East Dulwich etc. Can't see anything of the sort
happening any time soon though!