A step forward for the outer London rail orbital
Post categories: East London Line, London Underground, Rail, Transport for London
| 14:58 UK time, Tuesday, 22 February 2011
London Overground map from the Transport for London website
I've just found out that the crucial rail link between the East London Line and the rest of the Overground rail network is due to open next week.
The extension will join Dalston junction to Highbury and Islington.
It'll mean travellers, for example, will be able to travel from Crystal Palace round to Willesden Junction on the Overground network. And this will form another part of the outer London rail orbital.
There will be a reduced service from midday on Sunday 27th, with the full service beginning on the Monday.
I'm told though that travellers will have to switch trains and walk across the platform at Highbury.
There are some nice pictures of it on London Reconnections here.
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The new connection will avoid the walk between Dalston Kingsland and Dalston Junction. All this investment is very welcome. But it is not through "outer London".
Looking on your map, there is a desperate need for better east-west "orbital" transport, across the north London outer boroughs. (There WAS a railway line between the two Northern Line branches, until 1939.)
The big development sites at Wembley, Colindale, Brent Cross, and the Lea Valley could provide some of the finance, but the planners are just relying on more road traffic instead.
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1. At 1:35pm on 23 Feb 2011, larry0111 wrote:
There WAS a railway line between the two Northern Line branches, until 1939.
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I thought building of this this was not finished due to the start of the war. The southern half of the Central line loop to Hainault was also delayed by the war.
The unfinished section from Edgware to Mill Hill East is quite short but the additional section from Highgate to Finsbury Park could have made the whole scheme a bit more orbital. A problem with this can be imagined if passenger volumes as a result were far higher than the already capacity Northern Line we know today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_heights.png
If the above link is removed, look for "Northern_heights" on Wikipedia.
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Correction to my own post: The section from Mill Hill East was older but the incorporation into the Northern Line was stopped by the war.
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A current attempt for an orbital line is reported in the Willesden and Brent Times.
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More detail here:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Ydo5sNzF1_0/TUcgnnn9o4I/AAAAAAAACHQ/WCr-IPuMRpw/s1600/NWLLR.png
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Great news that the new extension is open - but is there any way you can find out from TfL why Shoreditch High Street has been designated a Zone 1 station?
Really annoying that you have to pay for a Zone 1 ticket to use that line to get to Docklands from North London - especially as (Euston aside) it's the only Zone 1 station ion the entire Overground network.
Since they redeveloped the line round to Stratford it's enabled me to ditch the Zone 1 portion of my annual season ticket and stay out of the congestion at Bank and London Bridge. Seems a shame that another route that may help ease congestion in Zone 1 has this anomaly that could put people off using it.
Excellent blog Tom - keep up the good work :)
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