Before Crossrail 2 – Brimsdown
I have a bit of a love hate relationship with Brimsdown station, despite having rarely used it as a start or end point of a train journey. It’s just that I’ve spent many minutes waiting for trains to cross the level crossing, in a car or with my bike. When I worked at Enfield Rolling Mills, I seemed that every other day, I had to wait perhaps ten minutes for a train to pass.
As you can see on a relatively quiet Sunday morning, the level crossing inconvenienced quite a few.
This Google Map shows the layout of the station and the roads around it.
Brimsdown Station
This is going to be one station, where four-tracking and removal of the level crossing will not be easy.
I think that the four tracks could be squeezed through as there is green space on each side of the tracks, but there is so little space around the station that a bridge or an underpass for traffic would be impossible.
So I suspect the only thing to do is create alternative pedestrian and bicycle routes from one side to the other and close the level crossing.
It will not be popular!
The Anonymous Widower 
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