User:Smiler jerg/Dartford Loop Line

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Below are some modifications I have suggested to the Dartford Loop Line route map.

London Bridge[edit]

This modification displays the platform interchange between the terminal and through-lines at London Bridge station.

Borough Market Junction to Cannon Street
London Bridge London Underground
Spa Road Closed 1915

Lewisham area[edit]

These modifications were the main reason this page exists. I wasn't happy with the original layout, as it showed some incorrect links. These show a varying degree of detail; most are probably excessively detailed for the article.

Fundamentally, these don't show the DLR station. In the context of the Dartford Loop Line article, it's not really necessary; the DLR logo next to Lewisham's name is sufficient.

A highly simplified, but nonetheless correct, representation of the Lewisham connections.

New Cross
St Johns
Nunhead to Lewisham Link
Lewisham Docklands Light Railway
North Kent Line & Bexleyheath Line
Hayes Line
Hither Green
Lewisham shown as a 'vee' station, with each platform connected to the correct lines.

New Cross
St Johns
Nunhead to Lewisham Link
Lewisham Docklands Light Railway
North Kent Line & Bexleyheath Line
Hayes Line
Hither Green
This is where detail goes beyond what's practical, or even relevant, to the article. This shows Lewisham as a branch of the SEML (which it is really), and the line to bypass St Johns.

The thing is, New Cross can also be bypassed, but isn't shown as such.

New Cross
St Johns
Nunhead to Lewisham Link
Lewisham Docklands Light Railway
North Kent Line & Bexleyheath Line
Hayes Line
Hither Green
Depicting individual links more accurately, taking care of exactly where the points occur on each line. The row below St Johns isn't ideal, but does depict all the possible connections from the track layout. Many trains use these links too: some go direct to St Johns from Hither Green, and most trains via Lewisham bypass St Johns (but rarely via the Nunhead link flyover, though it does happen!).

New Cross
St Johns
Nunhead to Lewisham Link
Lewisham Docklands Light Railway
Hayes Line
North Kent Line & Bexleyheath Line
Hither Green

Hither Green[edit]

Like Lewisham above, this shows Hither Green as a vee station.

Hither Green
South Eastern Main Line