John Rowland wrote:
"Dockland" wrote in message
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3 car trains to run on the Stratford and Beckton routes.

Is Gallions Reach used by anyone yet? I'm curious about its ratio of
(passengers served so far) over (closures for platform extension). Maybe
they should just close it when the line goes 3-car. (The situation at
Pudding Mill Lane is different, because half of the trains have to stop
there anyway to allow trains in the other direction to pass.)

Fairly significant levels of development now exist to the east of the
station, and there's a large retail park to the northeast (which buses
in the area now serve too) plus the Norton Healthcare place close by to
the southeast. So the traffic generators are arriving.

It's also going to be an important interchange station - with East
London Transit when that arrives, with the Greenwich Waterfront services
across the Thames Gateway Bridge if/when that arrives (although the new
Beckton Riverside station on the Dagenham branch might do that too), and
between Beckton and the Dagenham DLR branch when that appears.

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