{"id":3775,"date":"2024-02-13T02:31:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T02:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/trouble-travelling-to-thamesmead-2\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T02:31:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T02:31:32","slug":"trouble-travelling-to-thamesmead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/trouble-travelling-to-thamesmead-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble Travelling To Thamesmead (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0Starting At Charing Cross?<\/span><\/p>\n … the Stanmore line became a branch of the Bakerloo in 1939.<\/p>\n It was accompanied by simple but effective publicity!<\/p>\n The broad aim was to take the tunnels south of the Thames where tube lines are a bit thin under<\/span> the ground. An early option was to veer south …<\/p>\n … to\u00a0 Lewisham<\/span>, Addiscombe and possibly in to take over the Hayes branch from Network Rail. Ironically, this route later re-appeared as an extension of the other bit of the Bakerloo from Elephant and Castle to Lewisham …<\/p>\n The plans became mired in London politics, financial problems and senior management vacillation – so no surprise there. Also lurking in the wings was the on-going development of London’s Docklands.<\/p><\/div>\n Other writers with better knowledge than fbb have filled the electron waves with full and detailed information. But here are a few maps of ideas that were being booted around like a ball on a rugby pitch.<\/p>\n There were various routes to, tada, Thamesmead<\/span> and, in one intriguing option, a choice of Thamesmead or Barking!<\/p>\n <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n The Fleet Line became the River Line and even the Thames Line before the politicians hit upon the Jubilee mame as opening of the revised lin (but only to Charing Cross) was scheduled for 1977, the late Queen’s Silver Jubilee year.<\/p>\n The final chosen route added extra capacity via Westminster and Waterloo and served the mega development at Canary Wharf before turning north to terminate at Stratford, which turned out to be ideal of the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n Proposals to be discussed were:-<\/p><\/div>\n It seemed a good idea at the time but was dropped in favour of the Overground line.<\/p><\/div>\n Under this plan, Thamesmead gets a relatively slow multiple stops DLR service with just one intermediate stop at Beckton Riverside (NOT Barking Riverside).<\/p><\/div>\n