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Tom Anderson · January 22nd 08, 05:12 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, wrote:

On 22 Jan, 00:37, Tom Anderson wrote:

My current favourite implausible scheme involves somehow (magic?)
putting tunnels in in the City that let Metropolitan (and District?)
trains which currently terminate at Aldgate (or Tower Hill) carry on to
the east, perhaps Canary Wharf, Lewisham and points south.

One that comes up about every 18 months in these parts is sending the
Metropolitan line from Liverpool Street, through Aldgate East and
Shadwell to New Cross and beyond.

That doesn't actually help, as trains still have to go through Aldgate and
Aldgate East junctions, which generates loads of conflicts, and for which
there isn't even capacity east of Aldgate East. Unless you swap the H&C
and Met termini, but then you can only make a service to the south by
taking away trains to Barking.

There have to be portals to the west of Aldgate and/or Minories junctions,
and a new route in tunnel, to get any more trains out of the situation.

Then someone always pops up and points that two trains can't pass on
that curve without doing severe damage to each other's paintwork, and
the whole thing gets forgotten.

And it's to be expunged by the ELLX anyway.

tom

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