Mizter T wrote:
On 24 Apr, 18:03, Stephen Furley wrote:
I find it difficult to understand why it took so long to get a proper
passenger service back on this line.

As do I - it's a very useful and increasingly popular link.

I think it's because, from before the war until about 1990, there was
a general presumption that railways were in decline. So hardly anyone
even considered re-opening closed stations.

I think some of today's passengers would be completely amazed to hear
that it's a relatively recent reintroduction.

And some of today's non-passengers would be amazed at the places they
could once have reached by train.

Another strange thing about this line is the number of stations which
it had, no less than six intermediate ones between Clapham Junction
and Willesden Junction.

Not any closer together than on tube lines in the area. And with some
location adjustments, you could probably justify re-opening all of them.

And the same probably goes for the Dudden Hill line.

Colin McKenzie

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