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Second Article Modern Railways High Speed 2 in London let’s get it right Jonathan Roberts of the JRC consultancy discusses the route of the new line in the capital ith 70-80% of all High Speed When HS2 Phase 2 opens around 2033 the entirely within the present railway. Already 2 travel being to or from the fi rst main lines will have been around for it is proving simpler and no more expensive capital, it is vital to get HS2 nearly two centuries. The quality of the new to put the new line into tunnel under the proposals right in the London main line should also stand the test of time. Chiltern line from Marylebone, between Wand Home Counties regions. HS2 takes over part of the latest ‘classic’ Northolt Junction and West Ruislip. This article addresses the four conditions main line built in north west London. The raised in the Mayor of London’s 2011 Great Western / Great Central Joint Railway Old Oak Common: the future ‘Park Royal consultation response on HS2 and shared by opened in 1904-10 through Middlesex and City’ other London area stakeholders. They are: the Chilterns, to shorten the journey to the Old Oak Common is foreseen as large-scale in n environmental mitigation along the north West and East Midlands. HS2 is set to take both development and railway terms. Space west London corridor; over part of the route used by the GW from prevents elaboration of the full thinking for n inclusion of more than just Crossrail in Old Paddington to reach the Joint line. the development planning, but it aligns with Oak Common interchange; The Mayor is arguing about environmental one of HS2’s core objectives, to stimulate n solving the weaknesses of the HS2-HS1 factors on this North Acton to Northolt economic growth. link; section of HS2, with 6,300 homes aff ected Creation of 20,000 jobs was the ambition n mitigating Euston interchange pressures. by noticeable noise increase. The desire is to in early HS2 documentation. Now, a put this section into tunnel. The current HS2 150-hectare zone will be designated ‘Park Environmental mitigation position is to mitigate, not tunnel. Royal City’: a premier development at one London is no exception to the environmental Bolstering the mayor’s position is the fact of the country’s largest interchanges. Over imperative. Its population, heading towards that a re-engineered railway accommodating a 40-year timescale (about the history of 10 million over the next two decades with GC-gauge vehicles and a High Speed air- the current Canary Wharf) should see the higher density, merits a lot of mitigation. pressure-related ‘kinematic’ gauge doesn’t fi t creation of 100,000 jobs and 19,000 homes 56 Modern Railways May 2013 www.modernrailways.co.uk BAKER MAP HERE Euston: set to be adapted to handle high-speed trains under HS2 Ltd plans. Pendolino No 390019 in the station on 8 May 2009. Brian Morrison Extract from Stuart Baker’s Rail Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland (Ian Allan Publishing) showing the lines in the Old Oak Common area today. directly and indirectly at London’s largest Crossrail 1-West Coast link via Park Royal City 4,000 peak passengers with the West London Opportunity Area, with a Gross Value Added Plans for only 10 Crossrail trains per hour (tph) line. Park Royal City would become a radial/ of £54billion. west of Paddington are out-of-date. Crossrail and orbital interchange improving public transport’s A transport working party including HS2, sponsors are reviewing a timetable with most appeal on the west side of London. DfT, Network Rail, Transport for London and the of the 24tph from the central section heading Options that were studied included a south- local authorities has been involved alongside further westwards. There is potential for a spur side station and Overground route from the the property development planning work. via Park Royal City, for trains towards Watford West London line, or a central station. Of various Interchange and rail permutations will have to and Tring. This would relieve passenger and train links to the North London line, the most eff ective work in a complex environment. North Acton pressures at Euston terminus. One option uses were ‘Shoreditch-type’ curves to minimise land and Willesden Junction stations are nearby the tail of the GW Birmingham line then tunnels use impact. The central station is now considered and can stimulate some early development towards the West Coast main line. Another might diffi cult to build concurrently with works for HS2 zones, and may merit links to Park Royal City be via the Dudding Hill line. and Crossrail/GW. interchange. Stakeholders have also considered It may be too late for a scheme to be included The station options are now to the south or personal rapid transit (PRT) for local connections. in the HS2 Hybrid Bill, needing separate powers at Acton Wells Junction. The station would be The Underground at Euston will not be able to to progress the scheme ahead of HS2. We wait shared by West London and North London line accommodate all HS2 passengers coming into to hear from the Secretary of State as regards the trains. There would be an option of Overground London, so Park Royal City will provide a safety extent of DfT support for this proposal. serving the Dudding Hill line. Also, Southern to valve with one-third of passengers interchanging West Coast trains could run via the Acton Canal here with Crossrail/Heathrow trains. 16 platforms Overground at Park Royal City Wharf route, which comes off the Dudding Hill will give a ‘Stratford scale’ of connectivity: two There is strong Mayoral, TfL and local authority line and joins the West Coast main line near each way for HS2, two HS2-HS1, four Crossrail/ support for an Overground interchange within Stonebridge Park (although journey times are GW local, four GW fast, 2+ for Overground. The Park Royal City. This would remove about likely to be slow and the alignment might need station could eventually handle 200,000 daily 10% of HS2 fl ows from Euston, aiding access improving). passengers from its catchment area and rail to HS2 from other parts of London. Projected Network Rail has looked at these and many interchange. Overground interchange volumes are high, eg other options for both the Southern services and www.modernrailways.co.uk May 2013 Modern Railways 57 appears to have been no examination of the inter-regional demand that could be served by the link. So the case for investment has had to rest on the important, but smaller, international demand fl ows’. Greengauge will look at inter- regional and international demand levels, and ways of addressing border control. It expected to have initial results by 30 April. JRC has already modelled HS2-based international services in various economic circumstances, for the East and South East London Transport Partnership (ESELTP) and others. This extrapolates airline travel fl ows between the UK and western Europe in 2010. Park Royal City, showing HS2 and Crossrail/GW stations, and a ‘Poirot moustache’ option for Overground links. In the east Some domestic fl ows were modelled via HS1 the moustache joins with the West London line from Willesden Junction to Clapham Junction, while on the west it joins and the East London quadrant, through a with the North London line from Willesden Junction to Richmond. At the top left is the Dudding Hill line to Acton Canal potential link to Queen’s Park and on to the Wharf Junction and Neasden. Source: GLA with JRC input West Coast main line / Old Oak / HS2. The JRC modelling suggested inter-regional the Crossrail to West Coast main line services. built, the North London line was upgraded, but demand in this corridor far outweighs the Passive provision for a south-side route was no services ever ran because low-cost airlines potential international fl ows. Long term agreed in the Inter-city Express Programme (IEP) appeared. There still isn’t much commercial case demand forecasting points to a requirement depot planning approval. To remind readers, in for slow, infrequent rail services. for 4-6 Overground tph to be routed Camden order from south to north, the planned layout HS2 Ltd’s current plans are for two Road-Queen’s Park, four additional Javelin at Old Oak is IEP maintenance in the former international-only platforms at Park Royal City. tph to link Kent with the West Coast main line, Eurostar North Pole depot adjoining Wormwood Trains would run in a single-track tunnel from and up to 3tph for long-distance inter-city or Scrubs, then the Great Western main lines, then Park Royal City to Camden Roundhouse (‘the international travel. This used a limited data Crossrail maintenance depot, then Crossrail mousehole’), then surface to run via the existing base and didn’t allow for extra passenger fl ows stabling sidings, then the Grand Union Canal. Primrose Hill link to Camden Road on the North associated with the Railway Lords’ Euston Cross The Mayor and TfL require the Overground at London line and then on an existing single- proposal. (The Railway Lords’ proposal - so Park Royal City either to be included as part of track chord into the HS1 tunnel. Traffi c forecasts called because House of Lords members Tony the HS2 proposals, or have separate powers - a suggest little demand for these trains early on. Berkeley and Bill Bradshaw are proposing highly worthwhile element, which should be However, a single-track route would constrain it - was announced on p8 last month and is safeguarded and funded.
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