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I’m interested to read work continues on the West London Orbital. In a presentation I saw in 2019, TfL reckoned it had much the highest ability to raise external funds per pound spent, and serve depressed areas, of all the schemes available to it. And at a fraction of the cost of improving pedestrian access to a single central London underground station. It ought to be top of their list.
Of course, there’s another take on the Märklin layout shown in that NYT article.
It’s to do with a world record for playing tunes (!) – as shown here – enjoy.
Another contemporary (newspaper) take on the DLR accident HERE
At the moment I can’t find an HMRI report – possibly because the line was not then open for passengers (?)
Am I right in assuming that the West London Orbital is the line through Gladstone Park at Dollis Hill? In a faraway life, I lodged in Ellesmere Road and crossed the railway by the footbridge into the park, then walked up/down the hill to/from the POED research station, long since turned into housing.
@GarryBrown – indeed it is as outlined in the linked article;
@Ivan – it is not on the TfL list as they will not fund it.
The timescale for the council sponsored – housing led – centrally funded project is likely to align with HS2 services arriving at OOC as a distributor.
The investment required to combine West London Overground and freight with 2 additional services for West Hampstead and Hendon through the Acton section was disproportionate.
The answer is to switch out the Kew Bridge end for the unused platform face at Acton Mainline ( swapping the through freight onto the adjacent cut-off siding).
Interchange is improved and capacity maintained – just the Acton Wells Junction bridge crossing to manage.
The Rotterdam yellow bricked road tunnel was built with the release of Wizard of Oz, nice.