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Colin Rosenstiel · November 24th 04, 08:11 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Aidan Stanger) wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
(Dave Arquati) wrote:
Angus Bryant wrote:

Is there still a plan to open a station at Brixton? This would
be a really useful interchange for any SLL/orbital service.

Currently depends on funding; a station at Brixton would be on the
brick viaduct and would cost around £70m. ELLX Phase 2 would
probably go ahead without it, to make sure the cost of the station
at Brixton didn't jeopardise the rest of the project.

£70M? Sheesh! Railway costs have gone mad.

You're right - that's over 90% of the cost of the entire original
section of the DLR (including the trains). Even allowing for the longer
platforms and inflation, it still seems to be an order of magnitude out.

Most boiling frogs are caused at least partly by the private sector not
being able to efficiently do what BR could. Can it really be that the
private sector can't even efficiently do what they themselves were once
able to? Or is it a case of gross overspeccing? Answering this question
should bring the solution a lot closer.

There is certainly some overspeccing but even that doesn't explain how a
station on an existing line can cost £70million.

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Colin Rosenstiel