"Billy Goatse" wrote:

Now that the Woolwich Wanderers will definitely be moving, what chance
is there that Gillespie Road station will be restored to its correct
name by LU? Ashburton Grove will be linked in to Holloway Road
station.

AIUI, the new stadium will also be linked into the existing Arsenal station.
Indeed, fans will be encouraged to travel to the new stadium using Finsbury
Park, Arsenal and Highbury & Islington stations - but will be discouraged
(not sure how!) from using Drayton Park or Holloway Road. That was
certainly the case when I looked at the plans a couple of years ago.


One of the alternative plans that the club rejected was a move to the King's
Cross railway lands. This scheme would have included re-opening York Road
station, to serve the new stadium. If this had happened, then a new name
for Arsenal (nee Gillespie Road) station would have been essential.



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MetroGnome
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In message gs__b.19177$ft.1570@newsfe1-win, MetroGnome
writes

AIUI, the new stadium will also be linked into the existing Arsenal station.
Indeed, fans will be encouraged to travel to the new stadium using Finsbury
Park, Arsenal and Highbury & Islington stations - but will be discouraged
(not sure how!) from using Drayton Park or Holloway Road.

The fact that trains don't stop at Drayton Park at weekends is probably
quite discouraging for Saturday fixtures

Holloway Road is quite a problem because of the lifts, of course.

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Paul Terry