"Tom Anderson" wrote

If you draw a straight line from Elephant to Lewisham, it goes pretty much
along the Old Kent Road; this is a very densely populated area that's very
poorly served by railways, so it would be a great route for a new tube
line, regardless of where it went past Lewisham. You run via stations at
Bricklayers Arms, Thomas a Becket aka Albany Road aka Southernwood Retail
Park aka Burgess Park, Canal Bridge aka Rotherhithe New Road aka Cantium
Retail Park, Queen's Road Peckham, New Cross Gate, Deptford Bridge,
Lewisham. Or something like that.

There was a missed opportunity when the Bricklayers Arms branch closed. If
the Bakerloo extension surfaced at B Arms and took over the branch, with an
interchange at South Bermondsey, before diving down to reach Lewisham it
would be much cheaper than tunnelling all the way, and have the opportunity
to regenerate what are still run down areas.

Peter