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I agree with all this in principle and think it’s exactly the kind of thinking the government should pursue. The idea of making West Hamstead an intercity stop on the MML didn’t occur to me but the idea of doing more with Old Oak Common and Wilsden Junction certainly did. However I would...

If you could build new stations on the line, apart from OOC, where would they be?

Ok then, what are the others?

Where the WLL and the Picadilly lines cross paths at the new Earl’s Court development:

Then use ‘Tube’ stock.

Then why not have the interchange with the Piccadilly line instead? If anything that would be even better?

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The West London Line has proved to be immensely popular since its reopening as an inner-suburban orbital route, however to me the planners have totally missed a goldmine of opportunities that have been staring at them in the face. Starting from South to North, here are the ones I’ve noticed...

How about renaming it after a great British figure like David Lloyd George?

We often talk about building new lines from scratch. But what we seem to have forgotten is that there’s no reason why you can’t do so out of track that already exists. Here are three routes that I can think of, two of which are orbital: Wimbledon-Heathrow via the Wimbledon branch of the...

London Underground: Heathrow-Wimbledon Picadilly-District line tracks from Heathrow- Earl’s Court Junction and then new spur to Wimbledon Branch Or same as above but using the WLL to run to Clapham Junction - which would have to happen quickly before the Earls’ court redevelopment makes it...

Waterloo-Vauxhall-Queenstown Road Battersea-Imperial Wharf-West Brompton-Kensington Olympia-Shepherd’s Bush - Old Oak Common.

I want a system where our intercity routes are solely open-access (no franchises) so that we can have some exciting airline style competition on them.

That we should have genuine airline style competition on our intercity routes by scrapping the franchise system and replace it with a purely open access one. Here’s what I would also do - sell off the intercity routes to private companies (called railway owning companies) who would not be...

Here is where I would run it: Route 1: London Paddington to Swansea with 4-5 trains a day calling at London Paddington, Heathrow Airport, Bristol Parkway, Newport, Cardiff, Bridgend, Port Talbot, Neath and Swansea. Its USP would be the direct link to Heathrow from Bristol and South Wales, and...

So you’re saying that they can never make money?

When you say ‘Wales isn’t Scotland’, what do you mean?

I agree most certainly that in Britain there is much less of a real distinction between different kinds of services. This is because we are a relatively small country over which single commuter belts are a much bigger proportion of the country’s area than in a much larger county, which means...

There are many orbital corridors with no routes running along them - Ealing to Brent Cross (envisaged by Orbirail), Chelsea-Fulham Hammersmith-Brent among many others.

Sure, we have Crossrail and the DLR, but the fact is that we haven’t built an actual new underground line since 1979. Now, you might say that ‘oh, we’re a developed country, we’ve done all that, but the fact is that London’s population is rapidly rising and there are still corridors and areas...