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TfL Metronisation

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matt_world2004

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Do you have a source for that, or are you just speculating (appropriate for this forum of course!) :)
It was reported at the time that one of the conditions of TfLs future bailout was a pause on the Bakerloo line extension and Crossrail 2 it appears since then different conditions have been attached to TfLs bailout
 
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8tph on the West London Line would be great although there is freight to accommodate and clearly infrastructure changes would be needed at Clapham Junction to run 4tph through to Purley. Presumably in the other direction trains from Purley would run 4tph to Watford Junction and 2tph to Milton Keynes with the 4tph starting at Clapham Junction serving Willesden Junction and continuing along the North London line?

24tph on the East London line would be great and with trains limited to 5 coaches not much opportunity for extending services further afield...... having said that extending the New Cross service to the isolated Bromley North branch would be ideal but probably not viable in view of the infrastructure changes that would be needed.

I'm not sure 6tph Victoria to Orpington is viable as well as 2tph peak hour Blackfriars to Beckenham Junction with fast trains also having to be accommodated. There is mention of passing loops between Beckenham and Penge but there are already passing loops at Kent House.

I think the Blackfriars to Sevenoaks service should remain a Thameslink service and 6tph at peak times would be great with 2tph terminating at Bromley South.

The Bexleyheath line will lose its off peak Charing Cross service although it will have an impressive 9tph off peak to either Victoria or Cannon Street.

I'm a bit surprised that the long mooted Bakerloo Line extension to Hayes and possibly Beckenham Junction hasn't been incorporated into this.

I think the Thameslink service through Greenwich and Woolwich should remain but curtailed at Dartford or Gravesend with Crossrail taking over the Rainham service.

8tph around the Sutton loop, 4tph in each direction, would be great although I think flyovers at Herne Hill would be needed to make it viable. I think this service could quite conceivably be terminated at Blackfriars and passed to LO.

I assume the London Bridge via Tulse Hill service terminates at Wallington as there is no room to terminate anymore trains at West Croydon and no capacity for the service at Sutton.

The Streatham Common and Brockley interchanges would be very useful and if money is so plentiful may as well throw in high level platforms at Brixton for LO as well .......all things considered the whole thing sounds great and somebody has clearly put in a lot of time and effort coming up with this but I really do wonder about the viability of it all
 
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si404

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I'm not sure what the source for these proposal is, but it seems based on the Turning South London Orange report minus some of the proposals and with stuff like the Streatham Interchange in there, but not explained. Graphics are better than this mess though!
 
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