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On Nov 26, 2:13 pm, "John Rowland"
wrote: 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. According to the November issue of Modern Railways, only the 4tph from New Cross will run to Highbury & Islington - the other 8tph (from West Croydon and Crystal Palace) would terminate at Dalston Junction. But if the ELL has a segregated route all the way to H&I (as the current issue shows) then surely all the trains could run there, providing much better interchange opportunities? Would presumably need extra trains to be ordered though. |
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On 26 Nov, 17:18, brixtonite wrote:
On Nov 26, 2:13 pm, "John Rowland" wrote: 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. According to the November issue of Modern Railways, only the 4tph from New Cross will run to Highbury & Islington - the other 8tph (from West Croydon and Crystal Palace) would terminate at Dalston Junction. But if the ELL has a segregated route all the way to H&I (as the current issue shows) then surely all the trains could run there, providing much better interchange opportunities? Would presumably need extra trains to be ordered though. I don't think it's correct that the ELL will have a segregated route all the way to H&I, that could only happen of there was a bit of major shuffling about with the adjacent freight line(s) that run to the north of the passenger lines (and the freight line is alternately single and a pair of lines as well). Plus any terminating train at H&I would need to have all the passengers turfed out and then be reversed, all of which would take time and block up the lines. |
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![]() "Mizter T" wrote in message ... On 26 Nov, 17:18, brixtonite wrote: On Nov 26, 2:13 pm, "John Rowland" wrote: 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. According to the November issue of Modern Railways, only the 4tph from New Cross will run to Highbury & Islington - the other 8tph (from West Croydon and Crystal Palace) would terminate at Dalston Junction. But if the ELL has a segregated route all the way to H&I (as the current issue shows) then surely all the trains could run there, providing much better interchange opportunities? Would presumably need extra trains to be ordered though. I don't think it's correct that the ELL will have a segregated route all the way to H&I, that could only happen of there was a bit of major shuffling about with the adjacent freight line(s) that run to the north of the passenger lines (and the freight line is alternately single and a pair of lines as well). The November Modern Rail showed two options for the NLL along this stretch. The common feature of both options was four platform stations at Canonbury and Highbury & Islington, with the existing platfoms used for ELL, and the two new platfoms (the dualled freight lines effectively) for the NLL trains. The 'selected' option of the two, shown in the Dec edition, is apparently the more expensive of the two, with 3 platform stations at Caledonian Rd and Camden Rd. This allows for 4 tracks (middle 2 bi-directional) from Camden Rd station to a point between Cal Rd & H&I, where the 4 combine and becomes the northern two of the overall layout. At Camden Rd, the tracks (from the south) would be a westbound platform line, a turnback platform line (bi-di), an eastbound platform, then an eastbound through line. At Caledonian Rd, the tracks (again from the south) would be a westbound platform line, two bi-di platform lines, then an eastbound through line... (too much for ASCII art, I'm afraid) Paul S |
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On 26 Nov, 19:00, "Paul Scott" wrote:
The November Modern Rail showed two options for the NLL along this stretch. The common feature of both options was four platform stations at Canonbury and Highbury & Islington, with the existing platfoms used for ELL, and the two new platfoms (the dualled freight lines effectively) for the NLL trains. For some reason I'd always assumed it'd be two for freight and two for passenger trains, but I suppose segregating it makes some sort of sense - essentially it's just extending the two track Stratford- Dalston section further west to Highbury. Do they say how the various tracks west of there might be used? (Someone linked to a Network Rail presentation recently that had detailed planned track layouts, but inevitably I can't find it now. Anyone?) U -- http://londonconnections.blogspot.com/ A blog about transport projects in London |
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![]() "Mr Thant" wrote in message ... On 26 Nov, 19:00, "Paul Scott" wrote: The November Modern Rail showed two options for the NLL along this stretch. The common feature of both options was four platform stations at Canonbury and Highbury & Islington, with the existing platfoms used for ELL, and the two new platfoms (the dualled freight lines effectively) for the NLL trains. For some reason I'd always assumed it'd be two for freight and two for passenger trains, but I suppose segregating it makes some sort of sense - essentially it's just extending the two track Stratford- Dalston section further west to Highbury. Do they say how the various tracks west of there might be used? I'd expect the north side track to be a freight line or loop (no platforms), south to be freight or pax, centre pair pax only? (Someone linked to a Network Rail presentation recently that had detailed planned track layouts, but inevitably I can't find it now. Anyone?) Possibly this, page 22, but it seems very out of date now, maybe because at that stage the ELL wasn't going beyond Dalston Junction? http://tinyurl.com/ywr9rh Paul S |
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On 26 Nov, 21:55, "Paul Scott" wrote:
Possibly this, page 22, but it seems very out of date now, maybe because at that stage the ELL wasn't going beyond Dalston Junction? Thanks - that's the one. And that's a good point. As brixtonite says upthread, it would be waste not to run all ELL trains to Highbury given the planned infrastructure. All though that would mean Higbhbury- Dalston going from 12 carriages per hour now to 80. U -- http://londonconnections.blogspot.com/ A blog about transport projects in London |
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On Nov 26, 11:51 pm, Mr Thant
wrote: Thanks - that's the one. And that's a good point. As brixtonite says upthread, it would be waste not to run all ELL trains to Highbury given the planned infrastructure. All though that would mean Higbhbury- Dalston going from 12 carriages per hour now to 80. 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?. Are there to be any off peak stabling sidings along the ELLX? |
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