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[email protected] · August 13th 17, 10:03 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article
-septembe
r.org, (Recliner) wrote:

wrote:
In article ,
(e27002 aurora) wrote:

After TfL's Northern Line reaches Battersea, will Queenstown Road
still be needed?

An interesting question.

It is a pity the tube could not have reach Battersea Park.

Isn't passive provision being made for a future extension?

I think so, but there's probably at least three reasons why it's unlikely
to happen:

1. Who would fund it? The cost would be in the hundreds of millions.

2. Would the Battersea Power Station developers who've agreed to co-fund
the extension be so willing to cooperate if they knew the six-car tube
trains would arrive at their shiny new station already packed?

Would a short extension fill trains up that much?

3. Could the Northern line handle that extra level of demand? At the very
least, the further extension would have to wait till the current Northern
line was split into two separate lines.

The way the Battersea extension will operate will make it in effect a
separate line, surely? The only combination with the Northern will be north
of Camden Town, I thought.

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Colin Rosenstiel