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John Rowland wrote:
Dave Arquati wrote:

Camden Town to Camden Road (an additional exit from the northern
ends of the platforms at Camden Town to a second ticket office closer
to Camden Road was floated as a potential congestion-relief measure).

Floated by whom? When I phoned up the woman in charge of the public
consultation for the rebuiding of Camden Town, she clearly regarded
improving interchange with the NLL to be a bizarre and inexplicable aim.

But of course. If it doesn't add to the property redevlopment "take"
then there's no need for it in Camden Town.

Nick

Also, as a longer term idea, it strikes me that the idea some locals
have proposed for a Clapham Junction-South East London route could be a
good addition to the network. A route that ran Clapham Junction-Peckham
Rye-Lewisham-Woolwich-Abbey Wood would provide a link from Crossrail
and City Airport to south London. Be even better if they built those
extra platforms at Brockley.

I've heard about the Clapham Junction to Sidcup idea, but this in my opinion
seems mad. Clapham Junction to Plumstead service seems a far better idea,
with an extension to Abbey Wood if the extra platforms could be built.
Although I am not quite sure where the room to build the Crossrail platforms
is coming from, let alone any additional platforms.

If they ran the service to Plumstead/Abbey Wood throughout the course of the
day/evening, they could scrap the little used Cannon Street - Lewisham -
Plumstead trains and it would allow the Medway - Charing Cross semi-fast
service to continue to travel via Greenwich instead of the IKF plan to go
back to travelling via Lewisham.

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On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:20:19 +0100, Thomas Covenant
wrote:


South Tottenham - I think that has ramps

I'm fairly sure it is steps only.


Following this, I can confirm that at South Tottenham, it is steps up
to the platforms.

The ramp is from the main road to the bottom of the steps.

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:20:05 +0100, Dave Arquati
wrote:

Rather than opting for the brown "Rail" roundel, the branding scheme is
an orange (!) "Overground" scheme - not to be confused with South
London's "Overground Network" branding.

http://i6.tinypic.com/47btbbq.jpg
http://i8.tinypic.com/2dr9g5u.jpg
http://i7.tinypic.com/402ntxj.jpg

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John B wrote:
Side note - a couple of interesting pics on the TfL press centre,
including mock-ups of the London Overground Electrostars:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/press-cent...ry/gallery.asp

Lots of nice glass waiting to be etched..

Jonathan

Keith Spink wrote:
Also, as a longer term idea, it strikes me that the idea some locals
have proposed for a Clapham Junction-South East London route could be a
good addition to the network. A route that ran Clapham Junction-Peckham
Rye-Lewisham-Woolwich-Abbey Wood would provide a link from Crossrail
and City Airport to south London. Be even better if they built those
extra platforms at Brockley.

I've heard about the Clapham Junction to Sidcup idea, but this in my opinion
seems mad. Clapham Junction to Plumstead service seems a far better idea,
with an extension to Abbey Wood if the extra platforms could be built.
Although I am not quite sure where the room to build the Crossrail platforms
is coming from, let alone any additional platforms.

If they ran the service to Plumstead/Abbey Wood throughout the course of the
day/evening, they could scrap the little used Cannon Street - Lewisham -
Plumstead trains and it would allow the Medway - Charing Cross semi-fast
service to continue to travel via Greenwich instead of the IKF plan to go
back to travelling via Lewisham.


Yeah, that was my thinking - it would, as much as such a performance
polluting route can, simply the service pattern rather than complicate
it, and hit quite a lot of interchanges.

The platform thing could be an issue though.

Jonn

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:14:31 +0100, Andy wrote:

WATFORD RAIL USERS GROUP
AN OPEN MEETING IS TO BE HELD ON
MONDAY 11th SEPTEMBER 2006 7pm
at
WATFORD TOWN HALL, RICKMANSWORTH ROAD, WATFORD
Entry to the Town Hall is via the Customers Service Centre entrance
next to the Hempstead Road car park.
Representatives from your local Train Operators will be in attendance.
There will also be a presentation from
Transport for London on their proposed plans to bring
"BAKERLOO LINE TRAINS TO WATFORD JUNCTION"
ALL WELCOME

Did anyone go to this? If so, did anything new or interesting surface?