Dave Arquati wrote:
wrote:
He (Ken Livingstone) added: "Simply bidding for the Games has brought
forward a host of transport improvements - with the East London Line
extension, the new £400m ticket hall at King's Cross, and the £91m
package of improvements to the North London Line all given added
momentum."
What are the improvements to the NLL? £91M doesn't seem to by much
these days so it can't be much of an improvement.

It should be for:
- signalling enhancements
- improved power supply
- new "resilience measures" to counter late-running freight services - I
think this just means a new/reinstated freight loop
- platform extensions for 6-car trains where necessary
- frequency doubling to 8tph

I'm not sure how they are squeezing the £91m for those measures, but
that's what it's for.

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

Are they actually planning to increase the length of trains, where will
the extra trains come from, also for increased frequency. Incredible
for a line that 30 years ago BR would hve quite happily confined to the
waste dump (passenger services anyway). I have always thought the 3 car
trains from Euston to Watford Junc needed extra carriages when you see
the overcrowding so would have thought that this should take priority
over the NLL.
Kevin