|
|
Post by Busboy105 on Sept 20, 2020 0:24:22 GMT
Something that I’ve been thinking about for a while. Why doesn’t the Victoria Line doesn’t serve Manor House? Considering that it runs alongside the Piccadilly at the Seven Sisters Road/Green Lanes junction.
|
|
|
|
Post by Green Kitten on Sept 20, 2020 0:51:04 GMT
It was planned but what is the point? That would be an extra stop for a line which was always intended to be a fast service into London. The Piccadilly line does the job and besides you can just cross platform interchange at Finsbury Park.
Manor House is one of my most used stations on the entire network, I play baseball round there. A Walthamstow Central/Blackhorse Road to Manor House direct journey would be nice, I suppose, but the Gobiln with it’s nice Class 710s does the job for me.
You can hear the Victoria line trains beneath rumbling away when waiting for a train at Manor House, which is cool.
|
|
|
|
Post by vjaska on Sept 20, 2020 2:21:12 GMT
Wikipedia suggests there was an interesting proposal during the Victoria Line's construction where Manor House would of transferred to the Victoria Line with new Piccadilly Line tunnels running between Finsbury Park & Turnpike Lane but it was not pursued due to inconvenience and cost.
|
|
|
|
Post by M1104 on Sept 20, 2020 8:08:55 GMT
Something that I’ve been thinking about for a while. Why doesn’t the Victoria Line doesn’t serve Manor House? Considering that it runs alongside the Piccadilly at the Seven Sisters Road/Green Lanes junction. Where two lines are running side-by-side for a good stretch I always think it's better to have one of them be the faster service by not sharing so many interchanges baring emergencies, eg... * Jubilee and Metropolitan Lines between Finchley Road and Wembley Park * Piccadilly and District Lines between Hammersmith and Acton Town. As already mentioned Finsbury Park's only at the next stop for the Victoria Line, with the option of also changing at King's Cross and Green Park, though then involving stairs and corridors. Perhaps Manor House would have been considered for the Victoria Line if there was already a Suburban railway interchange. |
|
