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Not sure how you makle out that long gaps are being created? Surrey Quays to Queens Road Peckham could only previously be done via new Cross (Gate) and London Bridge, and Wandsworth Road to Clapham Junction via Battersea Park. And the Denmark Hill - Clapham High Street gap has been there since East Brixton station closed in 1976.
Yes, CHS or Wandsworth Road to Battersea Park or Victoria will now require a detour via Clapham Junction, but those are the only journeys that have actually been lengthened.
timbo | 07.12.12 - 12:48 a.m. | #
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There's only one really massive gap and that's the one neatly bisected by Brixton station. I know it's a whole can of engineering worms but at some point they are going to have build an Overground station here, it's just daft missing it out.
Peter G | 07.12.12 - 10:43 a.m. | #
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The rather tatty buildings fronting Brixton Road where the SLL viaduct crosses incorporate the Tube station and are probably comtemporary with it - so over 40 years old. They may well be due for redevelopment in the not too distant future (indeed GSV shows one of them to be boarded up).
It would surely be possible to incorporate a couple of platforms into whatever new building replaces them. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=brixton&hl=en&ll=51.462891,-0.115013&spn=0.001034,0.00283&safe=active&hnear=Brixton,+Greater+London,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.462987,-0.114985&panoid=DPZwK3g_r0XNzC-mdvPxGw&cbp=12,137.36,,0,0
timbo | 07.12.12 - 4:21 p.m. | #
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From what I have read, the main reason people rule out more platforms at Brixton are the estimate of how very very very expensive it would be to actually build the platforms and physically support them. Access to them, and all the rest of the station issues, are perceived as, in comparison, easy.
Is this right?
Malcolm | 07.12.12 - 6:19 p.m. | #
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Malcolm - if the platforms were to be cantilevered out from the viaduct, yes, it would be expensive and the structure might not be able to take it. But what I'm proposing is that they be supported by, indeed part of, the buildings beneath.
timbo | 07.12.12 - 10:59 p.m. | #
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