I took a [very long] detour on the way home today to check out the new
flyover. Trains to/from Beckton are using the bridge, meaning the
junction for the City Airport branch is finally grade separated.

One oddity is that trains from City Airport cross under the bridge
before using a mini diveunder to cross back.

Another oddity is the points for the third platform at Royal Victoria.
For the sake of about 20 feet of track, there isn't a segregated route
in and out of it form the Stratford International branch, which I
thought was the whole point. Instead the track narrows from four to
two tracks, then promptly widens back to three, with no obvious
obstruction.

Both these features are visible in this diagram I was emailed ages
ago, but never posted to my blog:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink

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