Long Distances Between Stations

Oh; I forgot about that. But as I have already said, property prices would only make up a fraction of the huge cost of building a Central Line station at Shoreditch High street.

I'd say, looking at the map, there's a reasonable distance for inner London station spacing, and a bit long for Central area if anything.

I thought the traditional argument is the station would be too busy and the line can't take additional journeys from the ELL which it is hoped would change with Crossrail. You and Castle Bar seem to be saying there is no demand for a station. The area has changed radically and I think the new developments at Shoreditch will change things even more. could even cause real overcrowding problems at Liverpool Street for those heading north-west on-street from there.

The above-ground (over ground?) station already exists, just needs connecting to a new pair of platform tunnels on the Central. Subsidence issues were almost certainly sorted when the ELLX was being constructed and it was mentioned I think by TfL that allowance for a future CL station had been planned into the project, whatever that means.

Obviously there isn't money for such projects for the forseeable (decades probably the way we're going) but that applies if it's a great idea or a lousy one.

Another reason for there being only 2 intermediate stations on this section might be that they replaced the 2 intermediate main line stations - Bethnal Green (which, of course, remained open for the Hackney Downs lines) and Coborn Road.

A station at Bow Road might have been a better fit for Coborn Road (and would also have replaced the station on the Fenchurch Street line), but Mile End would have been chosen as a better interchange, both with the District Line and the trolleybuses.

there is a completely different oabve-ground environment at those stations west of Liverpool street is the city - where the majority of commuter traffic disgorges