A few quick quotes from the Barking - Gospel Oak Line User Group's latest
news update:
[...] as all the track works to permit 4-trains-per-hour running will be complete, commissioned and tested by Easter 2009, we want that service frequency to start ahead of schedule in May 2009 [...]
[...] the new in-train maps show useful details of walking distance between our stations and others nearby - but oddly omit the Wanstead Park/Forest Gate interchange
[...] As a stop-gap the three-seat rows are to be converted to two-seaters to increase standing room, but regrettably it seems the North London Line trains are taking precedence over ours for this work to be done
Waltham Forest Council have assured us that there is firm commitment at senior level to getting the long-overdue pedestrian link constructed between Queens Road and Central
Oddly, they don't seem to know
Boris thinks the line's getting three car trains in 2010.
Re: Wanstead Park/Forest Gate... The map doesn't seem to show connections with any non-TfL station.
ReplyDeleteThis strikes me as silly, if only because Forest Gate is far closer to Wanstead Park than, say, Kensal Green is to Kensal Rise.
Kensal Green / Kensal Rise isn't marked as a connection though, is it?
ReplyDeleteGranted, there are a bunch of possible connections scattered around the city that could be indicated but are not. I wonder what the criteria is for marking connections?
"Kensal Green / Kensal Rise isn't marked as a connection though, is it?"
ReplyDeleteIt is on the map I've seen. 800m.
"Waltham Forest Council have assured us that there is firm commitment at senior level..."
ReplyDeleteHerts County Council say the same about Croxley Rail Link. And a little farther afield, 17-plus local authorities are similarly vocal in their commitment to reinstatement of the Oxford-Bedford-Cambridge line.
Which is nice for them all, I'm sure.