Early proposals

[dave1]

Found out that originally they had planned to have quite a few different layouts-being

1. Bi-directional loop between Finchley Road and West Hampstead.

2. Reversing siding at London Bridge (E-W).

3. Reversing siding at Canary Wharf (E-W).

4. Waterloo crossover was to have been east of the station.

5. Reversing siding at Bermondsey but as a run through to take the place of the London Bridge siding.

[drico]

This is the first I have heard of this do you have any plans or source of these layouts ?

[dave1]

Jun 4, 2016 15:38:16 GMT drico said:

This is the first I have heard of this do you have any plans or source of these layouts ?

What I have been told is that it is mentioned in a book  whose title is Jubilee line extension concept to completion.

[railtechnician]

Jun 4, 2016 16:47:33 GMT dave1 said:

Jun 4, 2016 15:38:16 GMT drico said:

This is the first I have heard of this do you have any plans or source of these layouts ?

What I have been told is that it is mentioned in a book  whose title is Jubilee line extension concept to completion.

You ought to look back to the 1970s! When I joined LT the then Fleet line was going to Thamesmead supposedly crossing under the Thames seven times to get there! Some signal New Works staff taken on in the late 1970s fully expected to quickly become based at a temporary Thamesmead depot, an outstation of the permanent Whitechapel depot where we were all based.

Of course all we did was to knock about Baker Street, Bond Street, Green Park, Strand and Trafalgar Square, signal Charing Cross to Baker Street and resignal the Bakerloo from Baker Street to Stanmore as the Jubilee Line, killing the Fleet Line, before the project was shelved. The DLR then replaced what should have been the Jubilee line extension and the JLE was another animal altogether.

What a way to build a railway, uncoordinated, topsy turvy higgledy piggledy terrible planning. Such is the nature of British politics that pretty much every major infrastructure project suffers from the same incompetent, inefficient and far too expensive creation.

As for the JLE that was built who knows what the originally 'planned' layouts were, quite frankly I think it's just banter because anyone who had an opinion about the nature of proposed passenger operations probably had an input that was later adulterated by political indecision and juggling of finance as always seems to happen. Don't forget that Canary Wharf JLE station was not planned, it was a late addition forced by politicians to get docklands properly open for business.