On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Jamie Thompson wrote:

On 29 Jul, 00:29, 1506 wrote:
Met line to Liverpool Street main line

Crossrail will do this better.

Depends which eastern line you were after. Crossrail will relieve the
GEML, but the WAML won't be relieved until the quad tracking (though I
suppose Crossrail could serve it via Stratford, maybe...Heathrow to
Stansted), and even then it will do nothing for the suburban services
via Bethnal Green. I wonder if diverting the H&C trains from Barking to
Enfield and/or Cheshunt via Liverpool Street and then running the Met to
Barking would be worthwhile.

Or vice versa, with the Met going to Enfield and Cheshunt, and the H&C
carrying on to Barking.

I was thinking that the A stock would be a bit more suitable for the more
widely-spaced stations of the West Anglia, but all this would happen with
S stock anyway, i suppose. In which case it doesn't make a lot of
difference, and the H&C's connections in the west (ie Paddington) are
probably more useful.

It'd free up some suburban capacity at Liverpool Street if those
suburban services became through trains.

Yes. It's a rather good idea. Not sure quite how you'd build the link,
though.

tom

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