London Banter - View Single Post - London Overground Extension To Clapham Junction

Robin9 · August 22nd 12, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:28:44 +0100
Paul Corfield wrote:
No, trains will still run to New Cross at 4 tph. All the other ELL
routes retain 4 tph so the new line takes the core frequency to 16
tph.

Pity they don't speed the trains up somewhat. Last time I got the ELL from
highbury it consisted off:

Wait at highbury for 5 mins.
Trundle at 20mph to Dalston junction.
Wait at Dalston junction for 2 mins.
Trundle at 20mph all the way to canada water.

Is there some rule saying that any decent speed is no longer allowed
on the tube/overground system? The only lines that have a decent turn
of speed these days is the victoria and central , everything else seems
to be semi comatose. Even the piccadilly line which used to fly along
from hammersmith to acton now potters along that section like some old
19th century country branch line in no particular hurry.

B2003

About 40/45 years ago I used to travel to work from Palmers Green to Broad Street
via Finsbury Park and Canonbury Tunnel. Between Dalston Junction and Broad Street
the trains moved quite quickly and the electric trains from Richmond moved a lot faster.
Of course in those days there were no stations at Haggerston and Hoxton to slow
things up. They had been closed for the Second World War along with Mildmay Park
and had never been re-opened.