> Mwmbwls wrote:

>> The 1974 London Rail Study
>> believed the cost benefit case to be weak and so Camberwell like
>> sleeping beauty nodded off until most recently in 2006

>
> Tim O'Toole mentioned it in a Time Out interview last year:
> http://londonconnections.blogspot.com/2007/04/bakerloo-line-extenstio...
>
> Pure rumour says the plan involves the Hayes branch.
>
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> On 20 Jan, 20:12, Mr Thant googlemail.com>
> wrote:

>> Mwmbwls wrote:
>>

>>> The 1974 London Rail Study
>>> believed the cost benefit case to be weak and so Camberwell like...

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Mizter T wrote:

>> On 20 Jan, 20:12, Mr Thant googlemail.com>
>> wrote:

>>> Mwmbwls wrote:

>

>>>>  The 1974 London Rail Study
>>>> believed the cost benefit case to be weak and so Camberwell like
>>>> sleeping beauty nodded off until most recently in 2006

>

>>> Tim O'Toole mentioned it in a Time Out interview last year:
>>>http://londonconnections.blogspot.com/2007/04/bakerloo-line-extenstio...

>

>>> Pure rumour says the plan involves the Hayes branch.

>

>> I'm not so sure that the travellers on the Hayes branch would really
>> want it - they already have a 4tph service, two of those being fast from
>> Ladywell to London Bridge (which is an advantage for those who wish to
>> get into town quicker, though a disadvantage for those who want Lewisham
>> either in its own right or for connections including the DLR to the ...

>
> If you draw a straight line from Elephant to Lewisham, it goes pretty much
> along the Old Kent Road; this is a very densely populated area that's very
> poorly served by railways, so it would be a great route for a new tube
> line, regardless of where it went past Lewisham. You run via stations at
> Bricklayers Arms, Thomas a Becket aka Albany Road aka Southernwood Retail
> Park aka Burgess Park, Canal Bridge aka Rotherhithe New Road aka Cantium
> Retail Park, Queen's Road Peckham, New Cross Gate, Deptford Bridge,
> Lewisham. Or something like that.
>