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Looking at the location of the new East London Line Shorditch Station it is located directly above the Central Line tunnels between Bethnal Green and Liverpool Street Station, (as shown on the link on DGs blog to the excellent map of the "ELL Through Shoreditch").

I did hear/or read somewhere a few years ago that there was talk about building a new interchange at this location that would result in a new Central Line Station to link the two lines together, this would then result in a reduction of the amount of people that alight at Liverpool Street Station and have to then walk back to Shoreditch. The whole scheme could be funded as part of the planning gain from the massive office developments that are planned for the Goodsyard area and along Bishopsgate.

It unfortunately seems to easy an option to be true, does anyone have any further information/ knowledge about it.

fishislandskin | 30.03.08 - 12:14 p.m. | #

The Bishopsgate interchange idea was dismissed at a very early stage of the ELLX proposals due to the high costs of constructing a new station on the Central line and the relatively low benefits that this would produce.

THC | 30.03.08 - 12:34 p.m. | #

Yeah, a Central Line station at Shoreditch might have annoyed a lot of Epping residents by slowing down their City commutes.

Not building an interchange looks like a very short-sighted option. Nobody in Hoxton or Shoreditch is going to want to take the new ELL to Wapping or Penge, but they might just have wanted a quick connection to the Central line into town.

But when Crossrail is built, Shoreditch High Street will be just one stop away from the new megahub at Whitechapel. Until then it, alas, it really will be quicker to walk.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.03.08 - 12:49 p.m. | #

I imagine that building a new Central Line station would be hugely expensive and disruptive too.

Frankie Roberto | Homepage | 30.03.08 - 1:49 p.m. | #

In the last three hours TfL have got the webcam working, not that there's much to see any more. Hopefully someone somewhere will stitch together a time-lapse video and post it on YouTube or the like.

Oliver | 30.03.08 - 4:37 p.m. | #

Until Crossrail is operational the Central Line is in desperate need of station closures, not adding even more.

Every weekday morning the Central Line operates far above its maximum capacity. It is not uncommon to have to let ten(!) trains pass before you are even able to get on one, only to be squished against doors, loss of pilot light so abrupt emergency stops and other mayhem.

Opening an extra interchange would only make things worse. It looks good on paper, it would be a disaster in real life.

It is still a possibility that the interchange will be build but a vital condition is that the Central's present problems are solved. Personally, I think the interchange will be built, work starting somewhere in 2020...

Anonymous | 30.03.08 - 5:33 p.m. | #

So I was a little surprised to be walking up Bishopsgate at 07:58 and to see the bridge already nudging the final few inches across the road.

Did you put your clock forward?

dg writes: Yes, but not my calendar

Matthew | 30.03.08 - 6:15 p.m. | #

It always amazes me how little vision people have and how so many excuses are always to hand when it comes to improving the availabilty of the tube network.

An Interchange at Shoreditch would not necessarily bring more "new" passengers to the central line, but would certainly change travelling patterns and take some of the pressure off the Liverpool Street interchange. (Which will also occur when crossrail is eventually built.)

I too believe that it will have be built at some time in the future and at a higher cost than at present, as well as causing disruption to two lines rather than just the one in 2008. Typical!

IsarSteve | Homepage | 30.03.08 - 11:53 p.m. | #

as an ex-londoner, one of the ways I keep up is through your blog.
Coincidently, round about the same time we had this lowered into place near my current residence.
slightly over 46 metres long, work started at 10 pm moving it from where it was being constructed and it finally went into place at 4 am, when I left, although it didn't actually finish until 6ish. Estimated crowd, 1000...
http://txominaresti.net/index.ph...temid=1&
lang=sp

bnanno | 11.04.08 - 9:57 a.m. | #











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