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Post by melikepie on Jun 19, 2022 9:00:07 GMT
I just read in the latest RAIL (959) that London Overground are poised to take over responsibility for Meridian Water, Northumberland Park and Lea Bridge stations. This leads to the obvious conclusion that they will take over the train service in the near future.
In fact, just below that, it mentions constructing bidirectional working on one platform and an extra platform on the eastern end of Ponders End and for these to be possibly done by 2024, at a cost of £9.3 million.
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Post by slugabed on Jun 19, 2022 10:59:15 GMT
It looks like the preparatory work just north of Meridian Water is finally gong to be put to use,then.
Effectively an extension of the bi-directional line from south of Tottenham Hale to meridian Water on the site of the old Goods Lines,ths would make a lot of sense,freeing the through lines from stopping services,allowing a better service for both.
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Post by spsmiler on Jun 19, 2022 11:31:43 GMT
So, the Overground network will be growing ... a new short self-contained branch from Stratford!
The publicity (informing people that the route and stations exist) will likely attract inward investment to the areas served.
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Post by grumpycat on Jun 20, 2022 11:30:14 GMT
I just read in the latest RAIL (959) that London Overground are poised to take over responsibility for Meridian Water, Northumberland Park and Lea Bridge stations. This leads to the obvious conclusion that they will take over the train service in the near future. In fact, just below that, it mentions constructing bidirectional working on one platform and an extra platform on the eastern end of Ponders End and for these to be possibly done by 2024, at a cost of £9.3 million. I wonder if the extra platforms gonna be made use of at meridian water to Tottenham hale? |
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Post by dazz285 on Jun 21, 2022 12:24:26 GMT
I just read in the latest RAIL (959) that London Overground are poised to take over responsibility for Meridian Water, Northumberland Park and Lea Bridge stations. This leads to the obvious conclusion that they will take over the train service in the near future. In fact, just below that, it mentions constructing bidirectional working on one platform and an extra platform on the eastern end of Ponders End and for these to be possibly done by 2024, at a cost of £9.3 million. If this happens, it would make service frequency on the NLL much better as they could easily extend the NLL to Meridian Water. |
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Post by Deep Level on Jun 22, 2022 7:04:28 GMT
I just read in the latest RAIL (959) that London Overground are poised to take over responsibility for Meridian Water, Northumberland Park and Lea Bridge stations. This leads to the obvious conclusion that they will take over the train service in the near future. In fact, just below that, it mentions constructing bidirectional working on one platform and an extra platform on the eastern end of Ponders End and for these to be possibly done by 2024, at a cost of £9.3 million. If this happens, it would make service frequency on the NLL much better as they could easily extend the NLL to Meridian Water. I was thinking exactly this! I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure trains can be routed into 11 and 12 at Stratford without blocking other lines so it would appear to make sense to extend however many tph required to Meridian Water rather than having two separate lines terminate head to head. The only downside would be working out where the next westbound departure will be at Stratford. |
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Post by quex on Jun 22, 2022 8:30:24 GMT
If this happens, it would make service frequency on the NLL much better as they could easily extend the NLL to Meridian Water. I don't see how extending to Meridian Water could improve service frequency on the rest of the NLL. At Stratford there are two platforms for turning back, with more for use during disruption. Capacity onwards to Meridian Water is constrained by the reversible single line, which also considerably increases the susceptibility for snowballing and spreading disruption. The capacity constraints that prevent a more frequent service operating on the NLL lie elsewhere and extending the service would do little to them. On a slightly different note, the Meridian Water shuttles currently interwork quite closely with the Bishops Stortfords. I wonder how TfL would separate them if they took over? |
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Post by dazz285 on Jun 25, 2022 15:14:17 GMT
If this happens, it would make service frequency on the NLL much better as they could easily extend the NLL to Meridian Water. I don't see how extending to Meridian Water could improve service frequency on the rest of the NLL. At Stratford there are two platforms for turning back, with more for use during disruption. Capacity onwards to Meridian Water is constrained by the reversible single line, which also considerably increases the susceptibility for snowballing and spreading disruption. The capacity constraints that prevent a more frequent service operating on the NLL lie elsewhere and extending the service would do little to them. On a slightly different note, the Meridian Water shuttles currently interwork quite closely with the Bishops Stortfords. I wonder how TfL would separate them if they took over? I was thinking that every other train goes to MR but this would only work if another set of points were installed near the station to stop the issue of the single line. Also, the Stratford terminating trains would potentially get a better turnaround time as sometimes drivers only get a minimum of 6 mins.. |
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