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Entry: The 'London Overground' Network - Update - A14343392
Author: Alex 'Tufty' Ashman [!] - we're ugly but we have the music - U566116


A revised version with updated information and broken links replaced - nothing special, but a bit too much for EF.

Alex

Ack, come on. If I'd have put these many but simple revisions into EF they'd be done by now, but a Curator would have had to do them all, and that would have been a waste of someone's time.

I think the problem is that we don't know which bits are new and which bits are old, so we'd have to read the entire entry with a fine tooth comb.

Any suggestions?

Hmmm - that is a good point. The only thing is that when I have listed the changes when updating an Entry, people usually go wholesale for the bits I haven't changed and rip them apart instead. If you want, I could go through and list the changes...

Here's a list of differences from A16542425:

First paragraph - updated with new details and broken link replaced.
South London Line - changed to "If plans ... are given the go-ahead"
North London Line - "CrossTown LinkLine" --> "CrossTown LinkLine service" plus added link to Crossrail Entry.
Forming the London Overground - updated in several places to reflect greater certainty as to what the plan is.
Running the London Overground - added new links to replace broken ones, added a couple of details about station improvements.

I think that's all I did.

Alex

Nice one. Couple of quibbles:
North London Line
"The disused section between Broad Street and Dalston is now being occupied by the East London Railway." - I know what you mean by 'is now being occupied' but must be a better way of phrasing it?

"The other part of the North London Line was part of the North Woolwich to Palace Gates line, which ran via Stratford and Tottenham Hale to a stop near Alexandra Palace."

Palace Gates was a terminus - in fact, the station building's still there, round the other side of Ally Pally. Have you been to have a look yet?

Gospel Oak to Barking Line
Probably worth a mention that as things stand, passenger services on the line are isolated from the main network at Gospel Oak - through trains can run, but as things stand at the moment they couldn't stop at Gospel Oak because the Barking line platform is a terminating one and not connected to the North London line. So they'd have to remodel the track layout and/or build an extra platform opposite the existing one to allow trains in both directions to stop.

Also, if it was to be isolated from the North London line, there's a lot of freight traffic that goes through Harringay Green Lanes at the moment (assuming things haven't changed in the last year since I moved out!) and surely they'd be loath to lose that link which must be a major East-West one for freight traffic going across London?

Ok, I've done those, Six

"in fact, the station building's still there, round the other side of Ally Pally. Have you been to have a look yet?"

Yep, but that's a different disused terminus - the one on the disused line from Highgate

Yowser. I've read 'Rails to the Palace', so I should know that...

Hang on, I know, is Palace Gates the one that would have been on the line that went through where Shopping City is now? Where would the station have been?

Oh, and

I've just realised, now I'm around a lot less I don't care about topic drift!

Yep, it's the one that went through Shopping City - look on Google Maps and you'll find a suspiciously straight line of trees directly between the mall and the train depot. Ok, so that's not exactly proof. Never mind.

I think you are too impatient for the Update Forum. Things move real slow around here. Could be months before we get round to sorting this out.

Looks ok to me.

I know, I'm impatient. *sighs*

Any other comments on this one?

Other than 'I think it's ready for the Update'? Nope

Must be ready then.

once more.

Wha...?

Oh yeah. Any chance of this being updated?

I'll do it.

The Edited Entry is A16542425.

OK, it's done. Now we just need to wait for the Eds to do their stuff.