proposed stations

[Tubeboy]

If you could let your mind run riot and cost was not an option, where would you like new stations/lines built. I would bring a lot of the disused stations back as well as the northern heights line.

[Deleted]

Definately have the Northern Heights. Yay!

I'd have the Bakerloo to Camberwel; too!

[Chris W]

DL running with new sleeker stock out to Slough as indeed it used to AND
the Metropolitan line being re-extended out beyond Amersham to include the station whose name is the same as my surname.... WESTCOTT

I'd then have a station named after me.... not that I've got delusions of grandeur of course!!! ;D ;D ;D

For those who have it, just look at the historical underground map including ALL stations, opening and closing dates...

[compsci]

I'd connect Thameslink to Great Northern at King's Cross to save me having to hike along Pentonville Road when I start work.

Hang on a minute ...

(Or perhaps a decade )

[Tubeboy]

Harrow-stanmore and palace gates-seven sisters

[mowat]

The "Metropolitan Railway" Back to Aylesbury.

[thc]

1. The Croxley Rail Link finally built.
2. The 1935-40 New Works Programme completion in the Northern Heights.
3. Completion of the Watford-Edgware railway from Bushey Heath to Watford Junction.
4. Extension of the B-loo back to Watford Junction.

<the poster pauses a moment to savour the thought of THREE Underground lines serving WJ!>

5. Roll-out of the Central London Railway's 1913 proposals to extend from Shepherd's Bush to Turnham Green and Richmond.
6. Reinstatement of the Hammersmith Grove Road chord so H&C trains can be diverted to serve Ravensourt Park and all stations to Richmond.

<again, the poster lays down his keyboard to imagine a Central/H&C/SWT interchange at Richmond!>

7. And, tying in to Metro Cammell's last post - one for National Rail. Reinstatement of the ex-GC mainline from Aylesbury to South Wigston to connect with the MML...

Ahh, dontcha just love dreaming?

THC

[marty]

Abandon the Wimbledon+Richmond branch, and build 4 track District service to Ealing Broadway so that I don´t have to wait 20 minutes for a Ealing BDy service at bloody South Kensington!

"I don´t know how many hours in my life I have spent at South Ken"

[mrjrt]

thc said:

1. The Croxley Rail Link finally built.
2. The 1935-40 New Works Programme completion in the Northern Heights.
3. Completion of the Watford-Edgware railway from Bushey Heath to Watford Junction.
4. Extension of the B-loo back to Watford Junction.

<the poster pauses a moment to savour the thought of THREE Underground lines serving WJ!>

5. Roll-out of the Central London Railway's 1913 proposals to extend from Shepherd's Bush to Turnham Green and Richmond.
6. Reinstatement of the Hammersmith Grove Road chord so H&C trains can be diverted to serve Ravensourt Park and all stations to Richmond.

<again, the poster lays down his keyboard to imagine a Central/H&C/SWT interchange at Richmond!>

7. And, tying in to Metro Cammell's last post - one for National Rail. Reinstatement of the ex-GC mainline from Aylesbury to South Wigston to connect with the MML...

Ahh, dontcha just love dreaming?

THC

aaaah. A man after my own heart.

With essentially all the changes I actually want already suggested, I'll have to come up with a few more...estoric ideas.

How about:

Extention: Met loses watford branch to a cross-herts railway rickmansworth to hatfield and beyond via old alignments. This then runs south westerly to use the old uxbrdige north/south line to heathrow.

Extention - High Barnet to Potter's bar for a mainline interchange.

Extention - Cockfoster's to high barnet, then on to barnet common and up to a Borehamwood station interchange, meeting a jubilee extention from stanmore to borehmwood via elstree hill south northern interchange

How about - New line, take over the DLR route from lewisham to bank, then extend to moorgate, northern city line, then new tubes to seven sisters, then take over line to enfield town (one services all run over other line via a east-facing curve near south tottenham). Route: Enfield Town - Finsbury Park, Bank, Canary Wharf, Lewisham.

Take the western end of the central line: Out to denham, then at white city rise up to west london line, and take over district from olympia to wimbledon via western curve at earls court. From the remains of the western end, push centrally west down shepard's bush green to gunnersbury and then finally, taking over the district to richmond.

That leaves to district somewhat....short, so we do what should be done anyway, and return the uxbridge branch back form the picc to the district.

And finally, a deep level circle line with express tracks so it can potentially run all night long.

...actually, on that (veery off-topic) thought...I understand the need for engineering works shutdown each night, but why don't they stagger the lines that are closed? So people can get the majority of the way home and then rly on taxis or buses, rather than being stranded unless they manage to find, and then survive, the loooong journey on the night buses.

i.e., if the SSL lines shut, with the tubes still open you'd still be able to cover a large area, and vice versa. It might also present the options of longer engineering hours on the nights they actually shut, wich might prove more useful than having to stop-start every night. Even alternating things like the northern, bakerloo and met would still leave you with quite a few options...from me near NW London anyway

[Tomcakes]

mrjrt said:

...actually, on that (veery off-topic) thought...I understand the need for engineering works shutdown each night, but why don't they stagger the lines that are closed? So people can get the majority of the way home and then rly on taxis or buses, rather than being stranded unless they manage to find, and then survive, the loooong journey on the night buses.

i.e., if the SSL lines shut, with the tubes still open you'd still be able to cover a large area, and vice versa. It might also present the options of longer engineering hours on the nights they actually shut, wich might prove more useful than having to stop-start every night. Even alternating things like the northern, bakerloo and met would still leave you with quite a few options...from me near NW London anyway

That's actually quite a good idea! If they rotated them every night, you'd still have a service overnight on several nights.

[Deleted]

I'd go for the opening of the Jub through Charing Cross again, and onto Thamesmead and South East London as was one of the Fleet Line proposals. Also there's a non - passenger NR line that (I think) comes off the West London Line before Willesden Junction, and goes through Cricklewood and other parts of North London. I do not know anything about the history of the line and it's name. I would try to incorporate this in the LU network, with a few stations on the way (well, obviously :.

[Ben]

District from Ealing Broadway through Castle Bar to Greenford, thence to Ruislip Gardens, then to Ickenham and Uxbridge. (Sorry to keep going on about this one!! )

If I had my way, the central would get express tracks from North Acton to Leytonstone with Camden town style junctions at either end. Extra stations on the 'slow lines' could be built at Shorditch High Street (interchange with ELL), Pudding Mill Lane (interchange with DLR) and Temple Mills (interchange with DLR). I would close all the stations between Greenford and North Acton and reopen stations on the sites of the former mainline ones.

Aldwych-Waterloo (W&C platforms) would be there somewhere too.

Not nessessarily reinstate the District back out to Windsor, but deffinately out to West Drayton with a view of following (roughly) the route of the brance line from there to Uxbridge and from Uxbridge to Denham.

Upminster - Grays seemes like a good idea traffic volume wise, however then the District would go everywhere. So, services would have to be split, somehow....

A new interchange on the Piccadilly at Harringay Green Lanes NR station might be useful.

[Tubeboy]

There was a plan to have a station at Harringay, but it was not proceeded with. Incidentally Manor House - Harringay Green lanes station is only about 7 minutes walk or two bus stops. How about the District veering off their normal route at Gunnersbury, onto the nll, then through Gospel oak, Harringay and Barking, then continuing to Upminster? The only problem is where would the cross-London freights go? ;D

[mrjrt]

Actually, I while I think about it on a vaguely-related topic, I did suggest to the (very good, actually) customer service folks at TfL to consider extending from Edgware to Brockley Hill because of the major regeneration project being conducted next to the site of the partially-started station (doubling of the housing density). Suffice to say I was told that the idea had merit but wouldn't be passed on. North west Edgware is going to get even more mighty congested in the coming years...

[mandgc]

Connect Hatfield back to St. Albans/ link at Watford Jc. to branch to Croxley Green /reopen to Rickmansworth Church Str./ complete proposed line to Uxbridge Vine St./ link to Staines branch at West Drayton and call it the M25 Line !