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Mr Thant November 27th 07 07:32 AM

Camden Road - London Overground
 
On 27 Nov, 07:31, Mwmbwls wrote:
As John Rowland points out upthread reversing facilities are useful
for maintaining operational robustness. Have any diagrams for the
proposed layout at Dalston Junction been published? Is the full width
of the former six platform NLR station still available?.


Yes. I've just dug up the planning application:
http://tinyurl.com/2l2er3

It shows 4 platforms - two islands with through lines on the outside,
two bays on the inside (like Willesden Junction low level). It also
shows the large scale bus interchange, shopping centre and mid-rise
residential development their building above.

(the "Other" link goes to a detailed planning brief, though the
"Drawing" document has more and better quality diagrams)

Are there to be any off peak stabling sidings along the ELLX?


Not that I'm aware of.

U

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Mizter T November 27th 07 08:14 AM

Camden Road - London Overground
 
On 26 Nov, 10:20, Mwmbwls wrote:
In the December edition of Modern Railways John Sully reports that TfL
and Network Rail have decided on the track layout for the section from
Dalston Kingsland to Camden Road following the opening of the ELL to
Highbury and Islington. The proposals include a turn back platform at
Camden Road. Alwaystouchout had previously reported that the service
pattern on the former NLL was going to be:
quote
" Phase 1
This would need to be delivered before the Olympics, using the
infrastructure enhancements mentioned above.
· 4tph from Clapham Junction to Stratford
· 2tph from Gospel Oak to Barking (with additional peak trains)
· 4tph from Richmond to Stratford
This would result in 8tph between Willesden Junction and Stratford.
Phase 2
A move to the second phase of services could take place after the
Olympics, and is dependent on the Bakerloo line takeover of Euston-
Watford local services to remove trains between Queen's Park and
Euston.
In their place, trains would operate from Queen's Park via Kilburn
High Road and South Hampstead to Camden Road (using what is currently
a freight-only link at Primrose Hill) and then on to Stratford.
Clapham Junction trains would be diverted to Barking instead of
Stratford.
This would result in a service pattern with
· 4tph from Stratford to Richmond,
· 4tph from Barking to Clapham Junction
· 4tph from Queen's Park to Stratford via South Hampstead.
The switch from Phase 1 to Phase 2 would enhance Gospel Oak to Barking
services to the Mayor's "minimum" turn-up-and-go frequency of 4tph. It
would also improve services to Kilburn High Road and South Hampstead,
and provide a new link from these places and Queen's Park to Camden
and Islington. However, services at Kentish Town West would drop from
8tph to 4tph along with through-services from Willesden Junction and
West Hampstead to Camden, Islington and Stratford."
unquote

No trains were originally planned to terminate at Camden Road so have
I missed something or has the plan be changed - if so to what?
Allowing for the fact that freight services over the route will
probably not diminish as container trains from Harwich and Felixstowe
will probably be replaced by trains from the newly approved Thames
Gateway at Thameshaven I cannot see how the proposed layout increases
or indeed maximises capacity along this key bottle neck section.


There is some information about the North London Line contained in
that year old Network Rail supplier briefing that you've just posted
to uk.railway, including a map of the track changes on page 22, quite
possibly out of date now, by the sounds of some of the posts on this
thread.

(6MB PDF file)
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/documen...ber%202006.pdf
or via http://preview.tinyurl.com/ywr9rh

There's also details of TfL's service level commitment (SLCs) on page
20 which suggest that 4tph will run Stratford to Caledonian Rd &
Barnesbury and reverse there (this stretch being the busiest bit of
the NLL), as well as 4tph from New Cross to Callie Rd too. Maybe the
plan is now to send some of these trains on to Camden Road, which
would add to their usefulness. Anyway this is what it says...

-----
TfL NLR SLC#2
Dec 2010 - Dec 2013 spans Olympics
4 tph Stratford to Richmond
4 tph Stratford to Cal'n Rd
2 tph Willesden - Clapham Jcn
2 tph Barking to Clapham Jcn
2 tph Barking to Gospel Oak
4 tph New Cross to Cal Rd (ELL Phase 2)
Trains 4 car on NLL, 3 car on GO-B

Post-NLRIP: TfL NLR SLC#3
Dec 2013 on
Further increase in tph on parts of route
4 car EMUs on GO-B
Depends on OHLE on GO-B
-----

(NLRIP presumably means North London Railway Investment Plan.)

Mwmbwls November 27th 07 09:22 AM

Camden Road - London Overground
 
On Nov 27, 8:32 am, Mr Thant
wrote:

Yes. I've just dug up the planning application:http://tinyurl.com/2l2er3

It shows 4 platforms - two islands with through lines on the outside,
two bays on the inside (like Willesden Junction low level). It also
shows the large scale bus interchange, shopping centre and mid-rise
residential development their building above.

(the "Other" link goes to a detailed planning brief, though the
"Drawing" document has more and better quality diagrams)

Thanks for that - use of air rights, Hong Kong style, to develop the
area above the station will I suppose help to pay for the extension
and interchange and kick start regeneration. Pity it is just square
box architecture but you can't have everything. Are there any signs of
movement on the ground - I assume the viaduct restoration is
continuing to progress?. Are the new bridges replacing those were
removed in place yet? As yet the route has not attracted significant
photographic interest apart from the superb panoramic shot in the
November 2007 edition of Modern Railways.

Mizter T November 27th 07 09:52 AM

Camden Road - London Overground
 
On 27 Nov, 10:22, Mwmbwls wrote:
On Nov 27, 8:32 am, Mr Thant
wrote:

Yes. I've just dug up the planning application:http://tinyurl.com/2l2er3


It shows 4 platforms - two islands with through lines on the outside,
two bays on the inside (like Willesden Junction low level). It also
shows the large scale bus interchange, shopping centre and mid-rise
residential development their building above.


(the "Other" link goes to a detailed planning brief, though the
"Drawing" document has more and better quality diagrams)


Thanks for that - use of air rights, Hong Kong style, to develop the
area above the station will I suppose help to pay for the extension
and interchange and kick start regeneration. Pity it is just square
box architecture but you can't have everything. Are there any signs of
movement on the ground - I assume the viaduct restoration is
continuing to progress?. Are the new bridges replacing those were
removed in place yet? As yet the route has not attracted significant
photographic interest apart from the superb panoramic shot in the
November 2007 edition of Modern Railways.



The new bridges are all in place north of the Kingsland Road bridge,
which has itself been extensively renovated. The new bridges includes
a new bow string arch bridge over the Regent's Canal:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/albedo/281827650/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markle1/288550361/

The bridge taking the line over Shoreditch High Street from the
Bishopsgate goods yard site on the east to join the old alignment out
of Broad Street on the west side hasn't been put in place yet. There
is however much preparatory work going on on the west side, with part
of the viaduct being knocked down so as to receive the line from the
bridge. There's also loads of work going on on the Bishopsgate goods
yard site, the future location of Shoreditch High Street station.

Work at Dalston Junction has also been continuing apace, but it's
pretty hidden behind hoardings - you need the elevation of the top
deck of a bus or standing on a bicycle to get a look at what's
happening. There's no sign of the flats going up above Dalston
Junction station yet, apart from on the hoardings - not everyone is
pleased (and I can't say the flats look architecturally stunning from
this either):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tims/456357853/

The route might not have attracted significant photographic interest
from railway enthusiasts, but I'm sure that a good few of the creative
types that inhabit Shoreditch and the surrounds will have been
photographically recording the changes to the neighbourhood.

Paul Scott November 27th 07 10:06 AM

Camden Road - London Overground
 

"Mizter T" wrote in message
...
On 27 Nov, 10:22, Mwmbwls wrote:
On Nov 27, 8:32 am, Mr Thant
wrote:

Yes. I've just dug up the planning
application:http://tinyurl.com/2l2er3


It shows 4 platforms - two islands with through lines on the outside,
two bays on the inside (like Willesden Junction low level). It also
shows the large scale bus interchange, shopping centre and mid-rise
residential development their building above.


(the "Other" link goes to a detailed planning brief, though the
"Drawing" document has more and better quality diagrams)


Thanks for that - use of air rights, Hong Kong style, to develop the
area above the station will I suppose help to pay for the extension
and interchange and kick start regeneration. Pity it is just square
box architecture but you can't have everything. Are there any signs of
movement on the ground - I assume the viaduct restoration is
continuing to progress?. Are the new bridges replacing those were
removed in place yet? As yet the route has not attracted significant
photographic interest apart from the superb panoramic shot in the
November 2007 edition of Modern Railways.



The new bridges are all in place north of the Kingsland Road bridge,
which has itself been extensively renovated. The new bridges includes
a new bow string arch bridge over the Regent's Canal:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/albedo/281827650/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markle1/288550361/


Famously announced by TfL as the first ever bow string bridge on the railway
network - total & utter bo##ocks of course...

Paul



[email protected] November 27th 07 10:59 AM

Camden Road - London Overground
 
Found this on the web:

http://www.londontravelwatch.org.uk/document/2923/get

Page 14

December 2010
NLL / WLL :
4tph from Richmond to Stratford (Mondays to Sundays)
2tph from Stratford to Camden Road (Mondays to Sundays)
2tph from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction (Mondays to Sundays)
2tph from Clapham Junction to Stratford (Mondays to Sundays) (inc 1
Southern train)
Also :
4tph GOB (Mondays to Sundays)
3tph Watford DC (Mondays to Sundays) (Bakerloo runs 6 tph to Harrow)




(Also, for crossrail:)

http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/pd...nse_141107.pdf

Pages 32 to 35: Service pattern on the Great Western, what trains
stop where, etc.

Mizter T November 27th 07 11:10 AM

Camden Road - London Overground
 
On 27 Nov, 11:59, wrote:
Found this on the web:

http://www.londontravelwatch.org.uk/document/2923/get

Page 14

December 2010
NLL / WLL :
4tph from Richmond to Stratford (Mondays to Sundays)
2tph from Stratford to Camden Road (Mondays to Sundays)
2tph from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction (Mondays to Sundays)
2tph from Clapham Junction to Stratford (Mondays to Sundays) (inc 1
Southern train)
Also :
4tph GOB (Mondays to Sundays)
3tph Watford DC (Mondays to Sundays) (Bakerloo runs 6 tph to Harrow)


Interesting, I wonder how the ELLX trains will fit in, as
tantalisingly that's the projected position in December but it could
all change the month after that - as the text goes on to state "The
East London line link to Highbury & Islington would open in January
2011".

Incidentally there's a lot more information concerning the
possibilities of running Southern trains up the WLL in the draft South
London RUS.

Mr Thant November 27th 07 12:02 PM

Camden Road - London Overground
 
On 27 Nov, 11:59, wrote:
December 2010
NLL / WLL :
4tph from Richmond to Stratford (Mondays to Sundays)
2tph from Stratford to Camden Road (Mondays to Sundays)
2tph from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction (Mondays to Sundays)
2tph from Clapham Junction to Stratford (Mondays to Sundays) (inc 1
Southern train)
Also :
4tph GOB (Mondays to Sundays)
3tph Watford DC (Mondays to Sundays) (Bakerloo runs 6 tph to Harrow)


Gosh, that's excellent info. We haven't heard anything much concrete
on this topic for a long time. They're basically confirming the
Bakerloo re-extension is a long term project - it would make sense to
do it at the same time as the 2019 upgrade or the possibly-happening
southern extension. Also, through running of the Goblin is apparently
as dead as its electrification.

Is the "inc 1 Southern" to Stratford a mistake, or something new?

U

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http://londonconnections.blogspot.com/
A blog about transport projects in London

Tom Anderson November 27th 07 02:26 PM

Camden Road - London Overground
 
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Mizter T wrote:

On 27 Nov, 10:22, Mwmbwls wrote:

Are the new bridges replacing those were removed in place yet? As yet
the route has not attracted significant photographic interest apart
from the superb panoramic shot in the November 2007 edition of Modern
Railways.


The new bridges are all in place north of the Kingsland Road bridge,
which has itself been extensively renovated. The new bridges includes a
new bow string arch bridge over the Regent's Canal:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/albedo/281827650/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markle1/288550361/


AHEM.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/twic/441840317/

tom

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Paul Scott November 27th 07 04:43 PM

Camden Road - London Overground
 

"Mizter T" wrote in message
...
On 27 Nov, 11:59, wrote:
Found this on the web:

http://www.londontravelwatch.org.uk/document/2923/get

Page 14

December 2010
NLL / WLL :
4tph from Richmond to Stratford (Mondays to Sundays)
2tph from Stratford to Camden Road (Mondays to Sundays)
2tph from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction (Mondays to Sundays)
2tph from Clapham Junction to Stratford (Mondays to Sundays) (inc 1
Southern train)
Also :
4tph GOB (Mondays to Sundays)
3tph Watford DC (Mondays to Sundays) (Bakerloo runs 6 tph to Harrow)


Interesting, I wonder how the ELLX trains will fit in, as
tantalisingly that's the projected position in December but it could
all change the month after that - as the text goes on to state "The
East London line link to Highbury & Islington would open in January
2011".


As we've discussed up thread, the ELLX trains don't need to fit in, because
they will have their own dedicated southern pair of tracks to H&I...

There are also options around to have DMUs running from Barking to Clapham
Junction, which is possibly why they are suggesting a turnback at Camden Rd,
that way it thins out the service beyond Gospel Oak on the NLL, to allow the
paths to be taken up by units from the GOB.

Southern trains to Stratford I think is a typo, I suspect they've possibly
misinterpreted something about the WLL, as things stand I suspect Southern
are more interested in (re)extending beyond Watford Junction, latest idea
(from Modern Rail) is to Milton Keynes, which is getting a new bay platform.

Paul




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