Is The Gospel Oak To Barking Line Going To Be Extended?
London needs houses and one of the best places to build them is in the East near the Thames in Barking. The developments are talked about here.
Development has been a bit slow, as the area is badly served by public transport and the Mayor and the GLA have pushing for better rail links to the area.
One plan was to extend the DLR and the other was to extend the Gospel Oak to Barking line of the Overground.
According to this report in the Standard last night, it would appear that the Overground is to be extended. Here’s the first bit.
George Osborne will signal a £150 million rail link to speed up the construction of thousands of new homes in the capital in his Budget this week, it is revealed today.
The Chancellor is expected to indicate he is keen to extend the Gospel Oak to Barking Line — nicknamed the Goblin Line — to Barking Riverside.
It would help unlock up to 11,000 new houses, offices and shops planned in a redevelopment that aims to transform a 350-acre site of industrial and brownfield land.
I wonder how many other projects like this, will turn up between now and the next election? This project is quoted as costing £150million, but as it makes 11,000 new homes viable and probably creates quite a few jobs, this surely is the sort of project that has a high benefit to cost ration. It also has the Overground-factor in that when it opens, it’ll probably attract far more passengers than expected and everybody will say why wasn’t it done years ago.
There are some interesting ones that have been proposed. Some of the ones I like are upgrading of the Marshlink Line and the Tees Valley Metro, both of which I’ve experienced in the last few weeks. None of the ones here, are big rail projects, where lots of new track and new trains are required.
I suspect that after seeing George Osborne’s backing for the Northern Hub and railway electrification in general, I have this feeling that after the Gospel Oak to Barking line announcement, that the budget may have some rail infrastructure surprises from the reinstatement and upgrading of lines to the building of new stations and the refurbishment of old ones.
One thing that seems to have happened in the last few years, is that now the passenger and freight flows on our railways are getting more stable and predictable, Network Rail has implemented some projects like the Hitchin flyover, where the msin purpose, is to make the important lines more reliable and less subject to delay.
March 18, 2014 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Barking Riverside, George Osborne, Gospel Oak And Barking Line, Housing, Tax
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Having moved in to this development 11 years ago, the understanding was that we would get the DLR extension which in most residents opinions is the far more desired option, This news rather feels like being promised a lunch in a champagne and oyster bar, only to find yourself eating cockles and sipping stewed tea at a place down the Thames not too far from here.
Comment by jess | March 21, 2014 |
The problem with rail infrastructure investment is that a lot of the population, if they could vote for it, would choose to concrete over much of the UK, so they had fast roads on which to drive their cars.
I think that Barking needs both the GOB extension and the DLR, together with a proper set of local buses. As it is, the whole of East London is going to get overloaded with traffic from London Gateway, as the Port was allowed to be built, without adequate rail links.
But saying that if you get a proper GOBlin, with four or five car electric trains, if you get the same effect that we had here in Hackney from the upgraded North London line, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Comment by AnonW | March 21, 2014 |