East London Line phase 2b to Clapham Jn is GO!
On Feb 12, 6:44*pm, Mizter T wrote:
On 12 Feb, 18:31, MIG wrote:
On Feb 12, 6:23*pm, Mizter T wrote:
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The other thing about the Victoria - Bellingham service ('SLL2' as
I've called it) that I didn't mention earlier is that it conveniently
runs out of Victoria's less busy eastern side, thus freeing up
platforms in the central side of the station - the South London RUS
highlights this as a benefit of this plan. So the SLL is basically
seen as the weakest link at both London Bridge and Victoria (central),
getting the boot from both of them, though space is then offered up in
Victoria eastern for its SLL2 replacement to Bellingham. Of course
this also precludes a stop *at Battersea Park, because trains from the
eastern side of Victoria can't even get on to the central side's
tracks to get to Battersea Park in the first place (and making complex
alterations to enable this would no doubt be unwelcome).
I'm sure they can. *There's a crossover that can be reached from
platforms 3 - 8, leading to the "Brighton Slow" tracks.
I dithered before writing that and in retrospect it's silly - I know
full well that there's a connection as platform 8 is served by both
Southeastern and Southern trains. However I though that was the only
one eastern side platform - platform 8 - that could access the central
side's tracks (perhaps I should actually be talking about eastern and
central divisions - sounds a bit like a yankee sports league!). It's
highly likely I'm wrong!
Therefore I suppose it is possible that the replacement 'SLL2' service
to Bellingham could call at Battersea Park at least until the
platforms get extended there (if they ever do). Not sure if a four car
Networker could go down that way though, and if it did whether it
would fit on the platform at Battersea Park.
It could be run by 319s ...
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