Why We Should Improve Train Lines
I’m biased and love trains and other forms of public transport.
But everybody should read this document, which describes how and why a group wants to upgrade all the train services in the Lea Valley.
It details various solutions and the benefits they will bring.
It is also a report that has been listened to!
Lea Bridge station is being reopened and the London Overground, is taking over the Lea Valley lines.
The report is also full of innovative and sensible suggestions about how to improve the area for work, rest and play. Typical is the idea to create a footpath and cycleway to Northumberland Park station across the Lea Valley.
If the Overground can do for the Lea Valley lines, what it has done for other parts of London, it’ll be a good start.
GreaterAnglia’s Awful Colour Scheme
I took this picture last night on the way to Walthamstow.
GreaterAnglia’s Awful Colour Scheme
The pink just clashes with everything. But then they also make the mistake of having red doors on their trains.
As with many trains on the Lea Valley Lines, it looks like the windows need a clean.
I think it can probably be said that when these lines come under the control of Transport for London in 2015, the colour scheme will be better. Especially, as these Class 317 trains, will be given a refurbishment, so that they can last another twenty years.
The Anonymous Widower 