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Post by astock5000 on May 28, 2008 8:47:37 GMT
Yesterday, the service was suspended between Westferry and West India Quay. I got on a train at Poplar (to go to Tower Gateway), and looked out the window. It looked like the track layout had been changed near Westferry. I thought the only change was going to be at West India Quay.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2008 9:20:50 GMT
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Post by astock5000 on May 28, 2008 9:42:39 GMT
What will happen when they replace that flyover with a track going under the Westferry-Poplar line? I think they should keep the line in the middle, so trains from Bank can be reversed at Canary Wharf, even if they didn't use it often.
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Post by amershamsi on May 28, 2008 13:38:12 GMT
They are going to change the direction of the second WIQ-Westferry track, so that at off-peak times the Bank-Lewisham trains can call at WIQ and also reverse in the middle track at Canary Wharf.
Given how close Canary Wharf and Poplar stations are as the crow flies (about 150m to each), they could get away with closing WIQ. It's 150 more metres to the northern side of the footbridge across the dock from Canary Wharf DLR compared to WIQ. It's 270m between Poplar and the building on the west side of WIQ by foot (Canary Wharf is better for the other dockside buildings, and then we're getting into Westferry territory if we stick close to the A13 (there's the building on Hertsmere road - 200m further away from Poplar than WIQ, but also the other end is about halfway between Westferry and WIQ). The old Billingsgate site is on average closer to Poplar than WIQ. WIQ serves very little and the buildings there look as if they generate very little off peak traffic (yet the service level will be higher then after the works! What pointless stopping). The surrounding stations are very close.
I would suggest that there's not much point in keeping it open - the only reason to do so would be Crossrail being built under the dock - but that could interchange with Poplar and Canary Wharf for better connectivity with the DLR at little extra cost or inconvenience to passengers walking extra distance.
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Post by astock5000 on May 28, 2008 16:34:42 GMT
If you used WIQ, you would probably wouldn't like it being closed. They built it, some people use it, and DLR stations probably don't cost as much to run as LU stations, so I would suggest that there's not much point closing it. If there had never been a station there, there would be no point building a station now, but they did because they didn't exactly know where the buildings would be.
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Post by amershamsi on May 28, 2008 22:56:27 GMT
I'm not thinking cost, but time saved - it'll be something like a minute. It's not really worth it being kept open, IMO.
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Post by astock5000 on May 29, 2008 8:08:14 GMT
Are trains to Bank going to stop? I think that trains to/from Stratford should stop and Bank trains shouldn't.
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Post by cetacean on May 29, 2008 9:13:44 GMT
Trains from Bank to Canary Wharf will be physically unable to call at West India Quay when they use the flyover/diveunder, which will only be at peak times. The rest of the time the flat junctions will be used. Trains towards Bank are unaffected.
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Post by astock5000 on May 29, 2008 12:55:23 GMT
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Post by astock5000 on Jun 19, 2008 17:56:52 GMT
Trains are still using the flyover at Westferry, because the 'new' Westferry-West India Quay line is not ready yet.
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