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Post by superteacher on Jul 18, 2012 20:24:10 GMT
The proposal to re-open CIty Road was mainly due to the then overcrowding at Angel station. Once Angel was rebuilt, the need to reopen City Road ceased.
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Post by aslefshrugged on Jul 19, 2012 6:03:20 GMT
grahamhewett - developers having wholly unrealistic ideas about train services? Who would ever have thunk it?
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Post by gericalo on Jul 23, 2012 12:58:36 GMT
Instead of re-opening York Road as has been suggested, why not close the present Caledonian Road stations on the Piaccadilly and London Overground. Replace both with a single station to create an interchange
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Post by mikebuzz on Jul 23, 2012 13:21:39 GMT
Instead of re-opening York Road as has been suggested, why not close the present Caledonian Road stations on the Piaccadilly and London Overground. Replace both with a single station to create an interchange Well York Road is half way between Kings' Cross and Caly Road and interchange with the LO would be just north of York Road so you'd then be left with a big gap between the new station and Holloway Road and a lot of irate Caly Road users! |
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Post by gericalo on Jul 23, 2012 13:32:49 GMT
That's true. In that case keep Caly Road and have a new station to replace LO Caly Road with an interchange to the Piccadilly
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Post by routemaster on Jul 23, 2012 14:07:15 GMT
New stations (and re-opened ones) have to be balanced between benefits for the area of people living/working in the area of the proposed site and the inconvenience for those on the train having their journey time extended. There are good cases for re-opening York Road on the Piccadilly Line north of King's Cross and City Road on the Northern Line between Angel & Old Street. The mechanics of installing escalators rather than lifts make it difficult to close out the financial case. With York Road would it be reasonable to have just lifts. How many lifts did York Road have? |
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Post by rsdworker on Jul 23, 2012 18:11:26 GMT
New stations (and re-opened ones) have to be balanced between benefits for the area of people living/working in the area of the proposed site and the inconvenience for those on the train having their journey time extended. There are good cases for re-opening York Road on the Piccadilly Line north of King's Cross and City Road on the Northern Line between Angel & Old Street. The mechanics of installing escalators rather than lifts make it difficult to close out the financial case. With York Road would it be reasonable to have just lifts. How many lifts did York Road have? 3 think |
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Post by melikepie on Jul 23, 2012 19:41:02 GMT
There has been recent talk again of reopening NLL Maiden Lane
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Post by routemaster on Jul 23, 2012 22:00:28 GMT
With York Road would it be reasonable to have just lifts. How many lifts did York Road have? 3 think 3 lifts would be quite reasonable, IMO. York Road is not going to be a principale station and not having escalators would not be a problem and if a second shaft was driven it should be for direct lift access to the platforms for passengers requiring step free entrance/exit. Also the time lost in the running times of trains stopping at York Road would be more than made up by new faster accelerating trains and again by ATO. The other benefits are that York Road would help to take the strain off other adjacent stations, it is there if the adjacent stations have to close in an emergency and York Road provides another exit point in a emergency detrainment in an otherwise long stretch of deep tunnel. |
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Post by jeebeelodo on Sept 10, 2012 5:03:35 GMT
The Picc Line doesn't go exclusively under Green Lanes- I used to sleep in a ground floor room in Harringay Road, a couple of streets away and I could feel the trains under me, with that stretch not being very deep.
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