The southern part of the East London Line extension is projected to
have 4 trains per hour each way between New Cross Gate and Crystal
Palace, and also between New Cross Gate and West Croydon. Currently,
there are some not insignificant number of suburban stopping rail
services that use these slow lines from London Bridge down through
Norwood Junction to West Croydon, and also diverging to Crystal Palace
to loop back to Victoria.

How well are these services going to coexist with an additional 8 trans
per hour from the ELL? For example, at West Croydon currently,
terminating services have to cross the up line to reach their platform.
If (as I am guessing) the ELL gets a new platform that will also have
to be on the up side, meaning another set of trains that have to cross
the up line. This could get messy. Also, who will do the signalling?

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Larry Lard
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