Recent content by NorthKent1989

Didcot is quite far out though, it’s in Oxfordshire, I doubt TfL would run services out that far. However if the EL weren’t a TfL service and was part of a wider CrossRail network of rail services (RER style) it would be a different story. Agreed.

If we add EMR’s Corby service to Thameslink, there’d be a discussion in whether or not GWR’s Didcot service should become an Elizabeth line service. Both are similar in that they’re semi fast services that run alongside a cross London line but aren’t part of said cross London line because of...

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but the Pulham bus route 801 from Chipping Norton to Cheltenham does a reverse move at Moreton-In-Marsh station due to how cramped the bus stop and car park is

My Metropolitan line bring taken over by Network Southeast timeline continues

From what I’ve read they planned on phase 2 to New Cross/New Cross Gate in the early 80s, with the routes to Hayes and Thamesmead not long after, the Thamesmead phase was the “River Line” that would have been added to the Fleet line, the idea of having multiple branches on the tube nowadays is...

They did briefly have a CST-Blackheath-Woolwich-Gravesend service but that was gone by the Dec 2023 change for reasons unknown. Yes All points on the Woolwich line are popular with those in Medway and Gravesend for the TfL interchanges, the fact that at the moment Medway has only 1tph to this...

Exactly this, first tube line in 60 years and first modern tube post war. I wonder if the Jubilee line opening was subdued because of how small it was at the time and that it was supposed to have had other phases due to be opened later on? 1784826393 I agree with this, plus the Jubilee line...

The Met line in the 80s off peak terminated at Baker Street for the most part (I think only the Watfords continued through to Aldgate off peak) But what if NSE took over the line in the mid to late 80s? Would we have seen electrification to Aylesbury, would A60/62 stocks have lasted to the...

Sums up the Bakerloo’s entire existence, ironically it’s using trains now that the Jubilee would have used initially from 1979 to when the 1983 stock arrived. I found pathe news type video yesterday regarding the opening of the Jubilee line which was opened by the then Prince of Wales. There...

Could ask the same for other lines too. No one has demanded Stratford has fewer Central or Jubiliee trains, nor has Central or District trains been cut back from Ealing Broadway, so why should the EL be treated as a replacement and not an addition. Why should the Bexleyheath line get three...

But it’s easily reached now by one direct train, why alter that? This during the brief overlap period when the EL had just opened in the May up to the December, the drop came from the Thameslink iirc. It matters not if it’s half hourly, the Greenwich line can still be 6tph, so can the...

Actually you’re both right I’d like to know how Stanmore commuters felt and reacted to being on a new line and Also regarding the section between Baker Street and Charing Cross, since the Bakerloo also serves Charing Cross, was it promoted as being faster for example?

Here in a parallel universe where in 1986, shortly after NSE was formed, London Underground decided to focus on a more robust frequency for the Circle line, and the Hammersmith & City branch of the Metropolitan line. The Metropolitan main line from Baker Street to Uxbridge, Watford, Chesham and...

Pity there wasn’t a pun for when CrossRail was renamed Elizabeth line.

The drop before 2022 was due to Covid and people working more from home from 2020-2022, The major drop comes after December 2022, from May to December of that year Charing Cross trains were still heavily used, the drop off comes after SE pushed through their controversial timetable change in...