Silvertown Tunnel vision

This week, TfL launched a public consultation for the planned Silvertown tunnel, which would link Greenwich Peninsula to the Royal Docks. The plan would reduce the strain on the Blackwall Tunnel, create a direct road link between two of London’s biggest development areas and provide an alternative option whenever the Blackwall Tunnel decides to have ...

Complete the danged Bakerloo line

The Old Kent Road. A death row of increasingly-redundant large format stores, bookended east and west by Domino's Pizza.A road built to serve cars in a city that passed peak-car a decade ago. A place of vast empty car parks and van storage yards, which houses, pleases and employs very few. A spectacularly grotesque waste of central London ...

#Bakernooisham – southern extension consultation launches today

TfL's public consultation on the southern extension of the Bakerloo Line opens later today. The options for the line, include a route via Camberwell and Peckham or a route via the Old Kent Road with both routes converging on New Cross Gate and then on to Ladywell and Catford. Mayorwatch reports:Michèle Dix, TfL’s Managing Director ...

Bakerloo consultation starts on September 29th with Southwark lobbying for Brockley route

Southwark news site SE1 reports that the public consultation for the southern extension of the Bakerloo Line will begin on September 29th, with the Mayor urging "south-east London boroughs to "come to the party" with their ideas." Southwark Council leader Peter John is campaigning for the line to go via Camberwell, Peckham and thus Brockley. ...

London Overground 2026

City Metric has found another new TfL map, this one showing how the London Overground network will be expanded by 2026. The site explains:The map shows all the bits of the rail network whose operators will be answerable to the city’s government, rather than the national Department for Transport. That includes the existing Overground network; ...

Brockley Bakerloo line revealed

The News Shopper has found this TfL-designed tube map, which shows the tube network, following the southern extension of the Bakerloo Line, earmarked for completion in 2040.Aside from the fact that it's nice to dream, the map is helpful in that it confirms that Brockley would be served if the line goes via Camberwell. This ...

Consultation on two new Bakerloo routes

The proposed Bakerloo extension routesFollowing the revelation that a southern extension to the Bakerloo Line was included in the Mayor of London's 2050 infrastructure plan comes the news that TfL will start consulting on the possible routes shortly, with the aim of delivering the project by 2040.The Evening Standard reports that TfL will shortly start ...

The Brockley Hyperloop

Citymetric has had a crack at developing a detailed map of the proposed new orbital railway, which would make use of the Brockley Station high level platform. This is their informed guess, based on existing rail infrastructure and the unhelpfully vague map provided by TfL. They admit it could be wrong, although the stuff immediately ...

Brockley Cross High Level Station could be reopened

The old entrance to Brockley Lane station - Photo by JE ConnorAlready discussed on the Bakerloo thread, but worthy of its own, is the news that the mothballed High Level Station at Brockley, which used to serve passengers as Brockley Lane, may one day be brought back in to use as part of the 2050 ...

Bakerloo Line extension to New Cross and Lewisham proposed

Being always right about everything is a burden Brockley Central must bear. For years, we have been banging on about the fact that a southern extension of the Bakerloo Line should be a key priority for London and that the case is so strong that, despite being a relatively unfashionable project (compared with Crossrail 2, ...