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Post by shunterl44 on May 27, 2016 10:39:16 GMT
As a frequent traveller from Marylebone into central London, I have been enjoying a much nicer journey since the Bakerloo platforms at Paddington were closed. This got me thinking..... If passengers from Paddington are filling the trains now, how much worse will it get when Crossrail opens and Chiltern complete the link to Oxford station? Is the hope that some passengers who currently use the Bakerloo will use Crossrail instead; I hope so.
If the situation on the Bakerloo gets worse, I wonder about the practicalities of opening a station on the Jubilee because the tunnels already pass under Marylebone NR station. |
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Post by norbitonflyer on May 27, 2016 11:08:21 GMT
; If passengers from Paddington are filling the trains now, how much worse will it get when Crossrail opens and Chiltern complete the link to Oxford station? Is the hope that some passengers who currently use the Bakerloo will use Crossrail instead; I hope so. I would expect fewer people using the Bakerloo from Paddington once Crossrail is running, as many of those currently changing at Paddington for central London will instead change at Bond Street or TCR (depending on their ultimate destination). There may also be some from the NW suburbs who currently use the Bakerloo through Marylebone who will in future change at Paddington onto Crossrail, and therefore reduce the number through Marylebone. As for Chiltern's link to Oxford, this may divert some Oxford passengers to Marylebone instead of Paddington, and some Bicester passengers to Paddington instead of Marylebone, but the net effect on the Bakerloo Line is likely to be minimal as it serves both termini. Indeed, any passengers from the Bicester direction choosing Paddington (which requires a change at Oxford) are likely to be doing so because they want Crossrail or the Circle Line at Paddington, not the Bakerloo which they can have at Marylebone anyway. The Jubilee Line under Marylebone is on a fairly tight curve, as I recall, and the northbound also includes the junction with the link from the Bakerloo (the original route of the Stanmore branch) which would limit where you could put a platform. |
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Post by Chris M on May 27, 2016 13:01:49 GMT
Crossrail will certainly reduce my use of the Bakerloo line, which is almost always between Paddington and the Jubilee line at Baker Street. When Crossrail opens I'll most likely be getting that to Canary Wharf and making one change onto the DLR rather than the two the route to the Isle of Dogs currently involves. Although that does partly depend on what the interchange is actually like in practice.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Aug 1, 2016 15:21:10 GMT
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Post by will on Aug 1, 2016 17:05:31 GMT
Every time you see one of these press releases there is a new managing director of London Underground 😂
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Post by edwin on Aug 2, 2016 1:00:11 GMT
It's a shame a third escalator wasn't added between the Bakerloo platforms and the ticket hall. |
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Post by yerkes on Aug 2, 2016 11:28:02 GMT
I was on the Bakerloo yesterday and enjoyed the peace and quiet of Paddington yesterday lunchtime with hardly any punters around, the rest being redirected via other routes. Some alighted at Edgware Road to try and work out how to get from there to Paddington. The yellow closure notices were still visible at all stations north of Picc Circus. Only at Paddington did I see any signs stating that the Bakerloo platforms were now open again. If I hadn't picked it up on Twitter first thing in the day, I wouldn't have known about it.
But all credit to the engineers for getting the work completed so well ahead of schedule!
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Post by crusty54 on Aug 7, 2016 8:30:51 GMT
It's a shame a third escalator wasn't added between the Bakerloo platforms and the ticket hall. That would have taken a lot longer. A lot of main line passengers will be able to access the Bakerloo line via the Crossrail entrance in due course and there will be a more spacious ticket hall to replace the existing cramped one. |
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Post by Chris M on Aug 7, 2016 20:48:13 GMT
I doubt it's possible, but widening the corridor between the Bakerloo and SSL gatelines wouldn't go amiss. Ditto the link from the mainline concourse to the Bakerloo ticket hall.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2016 11:06:16 GMT
It's a shame that all 5 stations at Paddington could not have been linked up.
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