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Graeme Wall

On 09/12/2013 10:18, d wrote:
On Sun, 08 Dec 2013 16:27:19 -0800
Aurora wrote:
On Sun, 08 Dec 2013 19:49:00 GMT, d wrote:
Looks like a connection to the central line is just waiting to happen.
They even use the same trains!

Making the WandC a branch of the Central would reduce the number of
trains available on the Central Line west of Bank.

A connection might make sence in order to allow WandC trains to reach
a depot. But, it is probably too expensive a solution.

Well, I was being a bit tongue in cheek. But I suspect if the line had been
run by the underground since its inception rather than BR until the 90s then

Well it was operated by the LSWR & later the Southern Railway from it's
inception in 1898 until BR took it over in 1948. Its only purpose was to
allow commuters from the LSWR lines easy access to the city, a function
it still performs. The connection at Bank to the DLR is probably more
use to its regular users than access to Liverpool St.

probably a single line connection would have been built by now to transfer
stock instead of having the faff of craning them in and out when any heavy
overhauls are required.

There were LPTB proposals in the 1930s to extend it to Liverpool St and
on to Shoreditch to connect to the East London Line. Though no detailed
work appears to have been done, it seems that it would have involved new
tunnels to Liverpool St paralleling the Central Line. It was also
proposed to add an interchange station with the District Line at
Blackfriars.

A post war suggestion was to extend the shortly to be electrified LTS
line via the W&C to Waterloo (Route G).

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Graeme Wall
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