On Oct 26, 11:45 am, wrote:
On Oct 26, 5:40 am, Mr Thant
wrote:

On 25 Oct, 18:17, Tom Anderson wrote:

incognita called 'South London', that there is an amazingly large region
with no railway stations in the Walworth area. If you draw a line through
Elephant & Castle, Kennington, Oval, Stockwell, Brixton, Loughborough
Junction, Denmark Hill, Peckham Rye, Queen's Road Peckham, South
Bermondsey, Bermondsey, Borough, and back to Elephant, you have an area
within which there are no other railway stations of any sort (other than
disused, anyway)

The Aylesbury Estate? Notorious for being a railway ghetto. The Cross
River Tram has a branch straight through this area.

The Aylesbury is in the area described above.





Anyway, are there any other notable rail deserts like this? There's one
around Dulwich, but a lot of that's open ground, so it probably has fewer
people in it. There's another huge one in the Thames Gateway, south of the
District line, north of the Beckton branch of the DLR, east of the
Stratford branch (a year ago, east of the NLL), and west of, crumbs,
Dagenham Dock?

Chelsea. If you're standing on Albert or Battersea Bridge you're a
good mile from any sort of station.

I'm trying to figure out how to program a computer to find these
automatically. And then overlay them on a population density map or
something.

If you have the NR and tube station overlays (from Keyhole BBS) loaded
into Google Earth, it's pretty easy to see where the gaps are. I see a
big one south of Woolwich, a big hole north of the Olympic site (where
Lea Bridge used to be). There's a huge one around Richmond Park. The
East London Line extension cuts through the middle of a big hole too.

Northern Havering is pretty poorly served, too. Rise Park, Noaks Hill
and Harold Hill are all a good mile or two from either the Shenfield
line or the Hainult branch.

Jonn

There's a difference between the areas which simply lack lines and
stations and the Elephant, Peckham etc area, which is that the latter
is surrounded by stations which have services that only run at certain
times, such that if you go out by train, you can't necessarily get
home.

In Havering, you can trek across to one of the lines at any time of
any day and find trains running (OK, replacement bus).