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Post by Chris M on Aug 15, 2015 19:18:26 GMT
According to it's thread on the Met board, the Croxley Rail Link has been renamed the "Metropolitan Line Extension". This has got me wondering.
I'm guessing that in absolute terms, it will be one of the shortest extensions to any Underground line in terms of additional route miles (Heathrow T5 would be my guess at the shortest), and possibly the shortest as a percentage of the existing route length. I'm not that hot though on historical extensions, so I might be wrong on either or both counts?
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Post by rsdworker on Aug 15, 2015 20:31:22 GMT
T5 extension was shortest cause there no extra stops between those stations
the MLE is bit longer than Piccadilly line extension
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Post by theblackferret on Aug 15, 2015 21:11:43 GMT
According to it's thread on the Met board, the Croxley Rail Link has been renamed the "Metropolitan Line Extension". This has got me wondering. I'm guessing that in absolute terms, it will be one of the shortest extensions to any Underground line in terms of additional route miles (Heathrow T5 would be my guess at the shortest), and possibly the shortest as a percentage of the existing route length. I'm not that hot though on historical extensions, so I might be wrong on either or both counts? Do we count Branches? If so, South Acton dating from 1909 could be regarded as an extension of the District, although I don't think extending the passenger service any further was ever on the cards. And Aldwych? It was always on the GNPBR's plans before Yerkes took it over, although then there was some prevarication about opening it, so it would be hard to call it an extension, though it opened slightly later than the rest. The other historical one I'd proffer for consideration is the Northern Line, after Yerkes took over. The extension to Golders Green was his only stated objective at the time & that area was just open fields, too. Beyond there, I don't think was in his plans at the time. In fact, the CCE & HR bill was altered as sanctioned by Parliament on 18.11.1902 to allow for extension from Hampstead to Golders Green. The only caveat on this one-the extension to Hampstead didn't commence building works until 1903. So would an extension to a planned extension fit the bill? Anyway, South Acton was 1,232 yards long, Hampstead to Golders Green is 1.46 miles, and Aldwych was 573 yards. |
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Post by Harsig on Aug 15, 2015 21:14:19 GMT
T5 extension was shortest cause there no extra stops between those stations There have been a fair number of extensions which only added one station and most if not all of these were shorter than the extension from Heathrow T123 to Heathrow T5. The latter incidentally is quoted as 2.48 KM in the working timetable. Some examples which spring to mind are the first two extensions to the Central London Railway, from Shepherd's Bush to Wood Lane and from Bank to Liverpool Street. Another would be the extension of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead railway from its original terminus at Charing Cross (the present day Charing Cross) to its new District Railway interchange station at Charing Cross (the present day Embankment). |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2015 21:18:41 GMT
Another would be the extension of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead railway from its original terminus at Charing Cross (the present day Charing Cross) to its new District Railway interchange station at Charing Cross (the present day Embankment). Why make things simple, when you can make them difficult?  |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Aug 15, 2015 23:06:19 GMT
it will be one of the shortest extensions to any Underground line in terms of additional route miles It's not even the shortest on the Metropolitan Line - see Farringdon to Moorgate (less than a mile), and Moorgate to Liverpool Street (about 400 yards). Croxley to Watford High Street is about three miles - to Watford Junction even more, so it is quite a substantial extension to the Met (albeit most of it uses former LNWR/LMS/BR trackbed). Others mentioned include T5, the proposed Northern Line extension, and earlier extensions Borough to Moorgate, Moorgate to Angel, Angel to Euston, Hampstead to Golders Green and Embankment to Kennington, were all about 1.5 miles. South Harrow to Rayners Lane is about the same. Stockwell to Clapham Common was about a mile, as was Euston CSLR to Camden Town. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2015 19:34:43 GMT
it will be one of the shortest extensions to any Underground line in terms of additional route miles It's not even the shortest on the Metropolitan Line - see Farringdon to Moorgate (less than a mile), and Moorgate to Liverpool Street (about 400 yards). There's also the relocation of Uxbridge station from Belmont Road. |
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Post by melikepie on Aug 17, 2015 10:04:38 GMT
The Battersea extension is shorter.
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Post by superteacher on Sept 12, 2015 11:25:49 GMT
The Battersea extension is shorter. Shorter than what? |
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Post by Chris M on Sept 12, 2015 18:57:53 GMT
than the Croxley link I guess.
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Post by spsmiler on Sept 12, 2015 23:49:25 GMT
if you include the route between Moorgate and Finsbury Park, there was a southward extension which was planned but never built that would have been so short that a train travelling south from Moorgate would have had its front in the new station (called Lothbury, I think?) whilst its back would have still been in Moorgate.
Now that would have been something to behold!
Simon
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Post by Chris M on Sept 12, 2015 23:56:03 GMT
You very nearly have this between Canary Wharf DLR and West India Quay. A four-car train would be.
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