Aictos
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I love it. I'd like to convert all London Metro services to through running, connecting with other Metro services on the other side of London. The only London commuter TOC that already has this, as far as I can see, is c2c, as the District Line/Hammersmith & City form the Metro run.
It'd cost an absolute fortune, but it would be amazing to see. It would stop a huge number of people changing at their main terminal and thus create more platform space at said termini. Brilliant.
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I love interchanges and would love to see the GOBLIN and the other NLL completely rebuilt. For instance, do we need stations at Hackney Wick, Hackney Downs, Hackney Central and Homerton? Or, for that matter, Harringay and Harringay Green Lanes? How about Tottenham Hale, South Tottenham and Seven Sisters? This is moronic. Again, it would cost a lot of money, but I feel that if proper interchanges along these lines were built, along with (at least) eight-car platforms and complete electrification, staff at every station, open ticket offices and barriers... the lines would be very busy and would save a lot of people the hassle of travelling via central London. This is the one LT idea that I am most passionate about. I long for the day...
I quite agree, it's daft that where Harringay Green Lanes is concerned for example that the Piccadilly Line runs directly beneath it and despite the distance between the two stations at either end of this section, Turnpike Lane and Manor House being particularly long for the line that there is no LUL interchange at that station.
Is it not possible for the the Harringay stations to close and have one combined station providing interchange options for the ECML, NLL and Piccadilly Line?
Or lets take West Hampstead as another example, why not just let's put Chiltern's idea into effect and have a combined station by moving the Thameslink and North London Line stations to the east side of West End Lane and also look at providing platforms for both the Chiltern line and the Metropolitan line and West End Lane would then become a tree-lined boulevard but there would be step free access to all platforms.