ChristopherJ
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Anyone else read the article in the latest magazines that mention the specification for the next Essex Thameside franchise includes diverting many services in to Liverpool Street to enable Fenchurch Street to be closed for engineering work more regularly and also that it is the only London terminal station not to have interchange to the London Underground?
I have only three words to describe this proposal and they are...
Gun. Shoot. Foot. :roll:
The section of the Essex Thameside route between Barking and London Fenchurch Street has only just within the last year been resignalled to enable more c2c services to call at West Ham and to increase capacity in to Fenchurch Street.
Instead, lets abandon the newly upgraded section and divert all services across both the GOBLIN which already has intense 15 min passenger service plus frequent freight traffic and the GEML with an even more intense 10 min passenger service in to Liverpool Street - plus Crossrail is due to absorb the GEML electric lines from 2017, more complications!
Journey times to London will increase because a diversion to Liverpool Street takes approximately 10 mins longer than direct to Fenchurch Street - most of that additional time is spent negotiating the chord line between Woodgrange Park Junction and Forest Gate Junction which only has a 15-20mph speed limit, then following behind a local metro service on the electric lines for the remainder of the journey in to Liverpool Street.
If passengers dislike like Fenchurch Street (I would imagine most are from Southend-on-Sea) because it has relativitly poor interchanges to the London Underground (only a minute walk to Tower Hill - the horror of a minute walk!) then they have a choice: go to Southend Victoria and travel directly with Greater Anglia. Simples?
I have only three words to describe this proposal and they are...
Gun. Shoot. Foot. :roll:
The section of the Essex Thameside route between Barking and London Fenchurch Street has only just within the last year been resignalled to enable more c2c services to call at West Ham and to increase capacity in to Fenchurch Street.
Instead, lets abandon the newly upgraded section and divert all services across both the GOBLIN which already has intense 15 min passenger service plus frequent freight traffic and the GEML with an even more intense 10 min passenger service in to Liverpool Street - plus Crossrail is due to absorb the GEML electric lines from 2017, more complications!
Journey times to London will increase because a diversion to Liverpool Street takes approximately 10 mins longer than direct to Fenchurch Street - most of that additional time is spent negotiating the chord line between Woodgrange Park Junction and Forest Gate Junction which only has a 15-20mph speed limit, then following behind a local metro service on the electric lines for the remainder of the journey in to Liverpool Street.
If passengers dislike like Fenchurch Street (I would imagine most are from Southend-on-Sea) because it has relativitly poor interchanges to the London Underground (only a minute walk to Tower Hill - the horror of a minute walk!) then they have a choice: go to Southend Victoria and travel directly with Greater Anglia. Simples?
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