DERWENT A different ELLX question
Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:41:30 +0100, "R.C. Payne"

Sir Benjamin Nunn wrote:
"solar penguin" wrote in
message ...

It's ridiculous. The ELLX will cause chaos to lines around South
London, just to allow a few people in Sydenham to get to Hoxton more
easily. Why? I can't believe Sydenham is _really_ that full of people
all saying "I wish we could get to Hoxton more easily," or vice versa.
Maybe I'm wrong, but somehow it doesn't seem right to disrupt lines that
take people where we actually want to go, just to build a line that
doesn't go anywhere useful!



And yet they could make it all so much more useful with just a few feet of
reinstated track if they brought back the Shoreditch-Liverpool Street curve,
and used LS as an alternate Northern terminus to Dalston or Highbury &
Islington or wherever the **** it's going to terminate.

Direct services from Croydon, Forest Hill, New Cross etc. into the City
would actually be pretty useful, and Liverpool Street easily has the
capacity to spare a couple of platforms for this purpose.

So now Blackfriars, City Thameslink, Cannon St and the like are no
longer in the City?


There are no direct services from Forest Hill to any of these three.
New Cross has trains to Cannon Street and East Croydon trains to
Blackfriars & City Thameslink.

I do question the journey times, as London Bridge isn't really a long
walk from the city whereas the rail trip all stops via Rotherhithe is
quite a diversion...

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