The Anonymous Widower

Will Redevelopment Of Fenchurch Street Station Help To Pay For Crossrail 2?

I have just written Could Crossrail 2 Go To Grays?, after various articles suggested that a Hackney Branch of Crossrail 2 could take over c2c lines through Barking and have termini at Bssildon and Grays.

This map is provided.

Possible Crossrail 2 Eastern Branch

The red section is new track, which would need to be in tunnel as far as East Ham.

Looking at this proposal, it became apparent, that the number of trains terminating at Fenchurch Street station could be severely reduced.

This Google Map shows Fenchurch Street station.

Fenchurch Street Station

Note Tower Gateway station on the DLR and Tower Hill station on the District and Circle Lines, to the South of the lines into Fenchurch Street.

The site must be worth a fortune in the City of London and could surely be redeveloped.

• It could have enough capacity to provide four trains per hour to Southend and/or Shoeburyness.
• The Docklands Light Railway terminus could be moved alongside the new station.
• It could have direct connectivity to Tower Hill station.
• There would obviously be a lot of offices on top.

There has been a proposal in the past to extend the DLR to Charing Cross and Victoria.

A rebuilding of Fenchurch Street station with the c2c and DLR stations underneath, might enable this extension from the Toewer Gateway branch.

This map from carto.metro.free.fr shows the rail lines from Tower Gateway to Charing Cross.

Tower Gateway To Charing Cross

This is said about the proposed route in Wikipedia.

Two reasons driving the proposal are capacity problems at Bank, having just one interchange between the DLR and the central portion of Underground, and the difficult journeys faced by passengers from Kent and South Coast between their rail termini and the DLR. Intermediate stations would be at City Thameslink/Ludgate Circus and Aldwych.

Could it be, that one of the drivers of linking Crossrail 2 to c2c services is to enable the Fenchurch Street station site to be redeveloped?

March 23, 2016 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | c2c, Crossrail 2, Fenchurch Street Station