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It has long been a possibility, but they are waiting for someone to pick up the bill (probably a mix of local housing development if the sugar factory ever closes and the airport itself).
Re Overground to Barking Riverside. There is already connection from that route to the Dagenham Dock route, the Tilbury freight trains use it. But does Boris just mean running the Overground trains to the existing Dagenham Dock station, or a new branch line off this line?
http://londondocklands.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/new-university-campus-in-canada-water/
Seriously, if you walked down Surrey Quays Road five years ago you'd see no skyscrapers along it apart from those two big orange things above Canada Water. Now it's just big towers of brick and glass in a way that probably looked good at the architect's but is a bleeding eyesore round here. Now they're expanding into every square millimetre of green, and personally I think within 20-30 years the whole peninsula will be covered with sky-high glass towers. It's a shame.
The unions will love the target for 75% automation within 6 years.
Redevelop Brent Cross, and a new Thameslink station. Is that as well as or instead of Cricklewood station?
What are the "tube lines to Outer London 2030"?
Euston-King's Cross-St Pancras is a bit of a mouthful, and in the wrong order. Either King's Cross-St Pancras-Euston (King's-St-Panston) or Euston-St Pancras-King's Cross (Eupancross)...
As I am sure someone savvy like you is aware, you have to be very careful when reading about "the" Northern Line Upgrade.
The above refers to running all Morden trains via Bank - or at least nearly all. The central branches will still be joined at Camden Town and both the Edgware and High Barnet branch would serve both central branches.
It is not the same as completely spitting the line into two separate lines which is still an aspiration but hasn't been committed to and no specific date is mentioned - though before HS2 gets to Euston is probably a good idea.
2013 Spending Review to be announced on 26 June BTW.
Cricklewood station will remain. The planning permission agreement for Brent Cross include provision of a new station on Thameslink.
As I understand it, it would take a massive (and so far very much unproffered) redevelopment of Camden Town station to *actually* separate the lines.
That said, it's a hell of a stretch to pretend that sending Morden via Bank only would speed things up that much or increase capacity that much. But then the Mayor's 2020 vision presumably can't quite make out fiddly little numbers at this distance.
I mean, I'm not like these Tory MPs that sneer at it as 'Wormwood Scrubs International', it's a worthwhile project.
But never mind the fact that opening a station there before Crossrail opens would be pointless - you can make the same interchange at Willesden Junction - the site is currently a working rail depot which surely no-one's turning into a station within the next three years!
Five to ten years (in time for HS2 Phase 1) would be more plausible.
It's confusing for visitors having two lines through the center that you can't necessarily get from one station to the other one on.
My prediction for the split line - the Morden via City bit will be called
THE SOUTHERN LINE
Cute, eh?
Well it might be confusing, but you can't get a single train from North Ealing to South Ealing either.
What is interesting is the aim to push the tube into South London, with the DLR to Bromley, An aim to have construction start on a Bakerloo line extension after 2020 and most intriguing 'extending the Victoria line southwards from Brixton'. I presume that would have to be after crossrail 2 opened, for the line to be able to cope with more passengers. I can;t see it being a long extension though, no more than 4 stops probably 2 or three.
It's very unclear that there are two Northern Line branches, when it's the only line that has them IN THE CENTRE.
It would be very useful to say "change at Euston for the Northern and Southern Lines".
It would also be clear that is the very useful cross-platform interchange from Victoria to Southern, which you can't do with two lines with the same name.
Swirlythingy: I have never heard of Parliamentary trains on the northern line before.
I believe that currently 5 of 27 Morden trains in each peak hour go via Charing Cross. Expect this to go down to 3 of 27 as a first stage and then hopefully 0 out of 27. But at the beginning and the end of the day there will probably be trains going via Charing Cross first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
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