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[email protected] · April 30th 10, 10:19 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Mizter T) wrote:

On Apr 30, 11:55*am, wrote:

(Mizter T) wrote:

On Apr 29, 9:45*pm, wrote:

(Mizter T) wrote:
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That's very interesting - first time I've come across that. That
plan makes the notion of sharing a platform face actually
workable (having the WLL and ELL services actually share the
very same operational platform would be a recipe for total
disaster, which is why I'd dismissed it previously - never
thought of what you've mentioned though). It's possible of
course because there's a centre track in between those on
platforms 2 and 3.

Isn't there a middle road between 2 and 3 at Clapham Junction?

Yes, that's exactly what I mean above when I said there was a centre
track.

Indeed. You seemed unsure.

No - what I meant was that this proposed solution is only possible
because of the (essentially unused) middle road / centre track between
platforms 2 and 3 - if it wasn't there, then the whole plan wouldn't
be feasible.

I vaguely recall wondering what was the point of it when I was a child. I
suspect it became mostly redundant at electrification.

Actually quite ingenious. I knew that the decking beneath the
track space of platform 1 wasn't in a very healthy state - I
guess that some time in the future that might have to be dealt
with properly, then again maybe it's fine and can continue to be
patched up so long as it doesn't need to take the weight of a
train or two.

I think the other problem with the original platform 1 is the
signalling or other hardware that would have to be moved.

My memory is that there track bed space isn't used for anything
critical like that, BICBW.

It's in the ELL article on page 54 of MR. It just says that "bringing
platform 1 back into use is technically difficult".

I thought the potential show stopper w.r.t. reinstating platform 1 was
simply that the decking was in need of some major (and therefore
expensive) structural work to bring it up to scratch.

News to me but then I've not followed the details of Clapham Junction for
many years. I have heard comments about signalling assets having been
placed in the platform 1 trackbed years ago which are now in the way.

The station is supposed to be having some serious money thrown at it soon,
isn't it?

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Colin Rosenstiel