On May 25, 1:42 am, asdf wrote:
I don't think there was ever much of an opportunity there. There would
be no real point in skipping Hoxton and Haggerston - Hackney is one of
the main areas that the line is supposed to serve. Even if some trains
were to skip those stops, there'd be no need for extra tracks unless
trains were going to overtake each other (which there probably
wouldn't be time for with just two stops, without delaying the train
being overtaken).

You could run freight on the extra pair of tracks, arriving from the
Great Eastern Main Line, providing an alternative to the two track
section of the North London Line from Stratford to Daltson. We'll
ignore that the approach to Liverpool St is even more congested than
the NLL, because that pretty much kills the idea.

I went and had a look yesterday. All of the new bridges are much
narrower than the viaduct.

U