Peter Masson wrote:
"Mwmbwls" wrote

Clapham Junction will have its own 39-storey twin towers, if an
ambitious project gets the go-ahead.

I hope the plans will allow properly for future train services. For
example, will Crossrail 2 serve Clapham Junction, and if so, which
platforms? Will there be 3 or 4 tracks for the SWML fast trains, and
will platform 7 be made more suitable for them, peraps with 8 made
reversible? Will platform lengths be increased, e.g. to 10 car on the
SWML Slow Lines, the Windsor Lines, and the Brighton Slow Lines, and
longer than 12 (16, with provision to use the International platforms
at Waterloo?) for platforms 7, 8 and 9? Will the Watford to Clapham
Junction service continue to run beyond Clapham Junction (in which
case platforms 16 and 17 need to be improved, particularly
straightened) or not (in which case provision needs to be made to
terminate them in 16).


Great list of problems with the actual station Peter, but I suspect having
read the article these proposals are yet another of those 'air rights'
sales, and nothing much to do with operational use of the station.

One point though, is that Crossrail probably won't serve CJ, the published
protected alignment is to take over the District Line from Parsons Green to
Wimbledon...

Paul S