Praise For Gospel Oak To Barking Line
I have a Google Alert looking for news of this railway line and it is mentioned today in these readers contributions in the Independent. Here’s the actual letter.
I nominate London’s Gospel Oak to Barking line. Goes from Michael Palin’s home territory east over the River Lea, and on over the rooftops, roads and railways to Barking.
i agree with “Ricp”‘s comment. It will be much better, when it is fully-electrified and receives the new five-car Class 378 trains.
A duck will have been truly turned into a swan! Or should I say a set of old, rattling travelling urinals, as in was twnty or so years ago, will have been turned into a railway fit for any Pearly King or Queen.
How many other Cinderella lines could benefit from similar improvements.
For example, I went to Blackpool last week, by taking the train to Blackpool South. This single track, South Fylde Line from Preston, goes via Blackpool Airport, Lytham St. Annes and Blackpool Pleasure Beach, before stopping close to Bloomfield Road. When the current electrification in the Blackpool, Liverpool and Manchester are is complete, surely this route should be a candidate for overhead wires.
November 16, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Blackpool, Electrification, Gospel Oak And Barking Line, Trains
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