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Old February 29th 08, 01:38 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default The barriers at Euston platforms 8-11 cannot cope

On 29 Feb, 13:12, Jamie Thompson wrote:
On 28 Feb, 13:12, Tom Anderson wrote:

Neither of them have terribly good onward connections, though. Both give
you the Bakerloo, and WJ gives you the NLL; QP will one day soon give you
some form of NLL as well. I would guess that most people commuting into
Euston take the tube from there into offices in the west end or the City,
or somewhere between. The NLL doesn't help with any of that (through
running to the ELLX may one day get you to Shoreditch High Street, which
is near the City), and the Bakerloo only helps you if you're right at the
Oxford Circus end of town (which many people are, of course - but still a
minority, i think).


Well, the bennefits of interchanging at WJ instead of QP need to be
taken in terms of direct destinations rather than lines.

QP will give you potentially westwards Overground connections to
Willesden Junction, though the Overground will probably terminate at
QP otherwise the Bakerloo would be capacity constrained over the whole
line north of there, due to the need to share track for a tiny two
station stretch. Eastwards gives you Stratford, and potentially the
East London railway route.

Willesden Junction on the other hand will give you all that plus
*direct* Overground services to Clapham, Richmond, and Barking.


And a nightmarish interchange, presumably.