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[email protected] · April 18th 06, 02:56 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
Surely both are possible? As the tunnels are halfway to Camberwell
already, it makes sense to go there, so you could have Elephant -
Walworth - Camberwell - Denmark Hill - Peckham Rye - Nunhead - Brockley
- Lewisham, then all stations to Hayes.

That would probably be a pretty overcrowded branch, and any problems
that may come from trying to create more lines on the Denmark
Hill-Lewisham axis (which is partly in a cutting, I believe).

Indeed, it is a cutting between Denmark Hill and Peckham Rye, IIRC.
Maybe if it went that way more tunnelling would be needed.

What's more, the obvious route for the Bakerloo to take to Lewisham
would be down the Old Kent Road, which must be one of the most busiest
bus corridors in the city, with stops at Elephant-Bricklayer's
Arms-Canal Bridge-Surrey Canal Road-New Cross-St John's-Lewisham.

I quite agree that's the more *obvious* route geographically. What I
was more looking at was extending the tube outwards a bit to decrease
journey times. The Old Kent Road is close enough into the centre for a
bus journey not to be a big deal, timewise, and, additionally, the
Jubilee Line is only just up on Jamaica Road.

The bus times from Denmark Hill, Peckham Rye, Nunhead & Brockley into
town are such that a tube would be a real boon to those areas, rather
than a "nice to have" as it would be for the Old Kent Road, IMHO.

Patrick