A number of issues affect rail services in Lambeth and south London generally:
- Low frequencies
- Slow line speeds and low acceleration trains
- Many flat junctions and complicated operating patterns
- Long dwell and turnaround times and
- Contagious delays
The ‘Metroisation’ concept would deliver the following:
- Identifiable “lines” which operate all day, with consistent stopping patterns and even intervals:
- The ‘untangling’ of services by simplification of service pattern, reducing crossing moves, improving reliability
- Better connections between services
- Re-routing freight to allow service improvements
We believe that these improvements can best be delivered through the further devolution of rail services in London to the Mayor and that improvements to south London metro services should be a priority.