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Ashford would make more sense as an adjunct to StP (to take some pressure off of terminal facilities at St P) if it were connected more like Lille - with the possibility of connecting to speedy long distance services to other parts of Britain without needing to go via London and probably having...

Aha - you might know that there's long been a local aspiration for an overground - these days, Overground - station on the NLL there, to be called Maiden Lane. So a KX Javelin station deep under the Overground as an integrated station... And of course it would only be a couple of hundred yards...

Thanks for the explanation. All in all not ideal - but better in terms of an as-seamless-as-possible integration with other OOC services than the WLL options!

For heritage - and other - reasons you can't extend the domestic HS platforms, so this would mean shorter international services. Which could - one day - mean inefficient use of tunnel capacity. An underground Javelin station ... um ... where? Do you mean a new grade-separated junction in the...

Well, Victoria-Brighton trains via Gatwick are currently 58mins, not 62 (admittedly slower than the 52 mins London-Brighton in the good old days). Adding a Clapham Junction stop would still mean doing the journey within the hour. Its value as a fast (-er than Thameslink) Brighton service would...

If the 1s are the link between Chesham and Amersham, then the only time I've used it in recent years (a weekday evening) I found it infrequent, but reasonably patronised.

Interesting - I've used GX trains between London and Brighton several times this year (always evenings and weekends I think); I've never had more than a couple of others in the same carriage. 1713844413 But GX trains are only a couple of minutes faster Vic-GW. And most of the time, if you're...

Re that point about the transformation... Some of the earlier plans for a KX/StP terminal for international trains would have trashed a lot of the area. As it ended up, much of the inevitably destructive (re)building for the actual terminal facilities has thankfully been on brownfield land (ie...

To expand a bit... Re all of upstairs being for international use: It would be possible, in terms of space/geometry, to swing some connections from the international tracks across to the west and take over the EM route line. However, that would (of course) mean a lot of reshuffling of the...

Would there be no way to fit in platforms immediately south of the junction, so that one station could serve both the LWO and NLL Overgrounds? I realise it would be tight, with a further junction so close - but like this you have twice the infrastructure, and the need for extra interconnection...

What's "3-5 working"?

If the NLL/Duddon Overground routes have a station at Old Oak Common Lane, that might feasibly have a direct (shortish) link to OOC station. But the WLL, unless completely rerouted, can only manage Hythe Road - which is perhaps a bit too far to have a direct link (buildings, canal, rail sidings...

I don't understand that last sentence...

If that were viable, given the lie of the land, and if it was only a few minutes station-station, that would be a good solution to avoid the need to divert the routes of the Richmond and Clapham Junction Overgrounds (and avoid needing to build extra stations on their lines). Though it would...

Translating prepositions between languages is fraught with difficulty (even for a human, let alone a machine) - there are idiomatic uses, occasions when one language uses a preposition and another doesn't, a lack of one-one correlation between prepositions, and so on. PS - I don't consider...