Is CrossRail 2 Going To Follow The Palace Gates Line?
The latest plan for CrossRail 2 shows the line going to Alexandra Palace. I assume they mean the main line station although the route is a bit vague. This article seems to think the line will come from Seven Sisters station up the Palace Gates line.
I used to watch the old steam trains on this line in the 1950s, sitting on the ledgers at my father’s print works in Wood Green.
I don’t know whether they could get the trains through, although the main obstacle is probably the shopping centre on the High Road.
The Anonymous Widower 
The line will be in tunnel from Wimbledon to Ally Pally!
Comment by Stu | February 7, 2013 |
I would have thought, it would have to be, but the plans don’t show any tunnel portal.
Comment by AnonW | February 8, 2013 |
I live right next to the course of the line between Seven Sisters and West Green. A number of houses and flats were built for Haringey Council in the 1970’s & 80’s: Indeed, trying to wallk the route of the line up to Wood Green little evidence of the old line still exists bar a few bridge abutments.
I filled out a questionaire for TFL about the scheme: it confirmed that the line to Ally Pally would be deep tunnel all the way. Option 2 proposes links at either end (Wimbledon and a link to Tottenham Hale National Rail lines) only.
Option 1 is just a straight deep level metro line from Ally Pally – Wimbledon.
Comment by John F | June 1, 2013 |
Just north of me is HS1, which runs under the North London line. I’ve never heard anything on say Dalston Kingsland station, which has trains moving at 200 kph or so beneath.
So I don’t think the residents of Wood Green have anything to fear.
Comment by AnonW | June 1, 2013 |