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Re. Beam Park: not knowing the area, I rely on a map to judge. Dagenham Dock and Rainham stations appear to be about 3 km apart, which strikes me as a reasonable spacing to serve the population in between, even if growing. Most people could easily walk to the nearest of the pair, enhanced bike parking would cost a fraction of what a new station would. For a similar example close to me, consider Blindwells adjacent to the ECML between Tranent and Longniddry, on an ex=opencast site and .planned to grow to the same 10.000 population. It is midway between the existing stations of Prestonpans and Longniddry 5 km apart on the Edinburgh/North Berwick local service, with no realistic proposal for a new station.
There is an interesting and extensive critique of the “world’s longest passenger train journey” claim at https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-world/
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That is an amazingly detailed article, and actually very useful if one were planning to actually make such a trip.
Garry – I think one issue is that a development of homes for 10,000 people within London generates a multiple of the number of train journeys compared to an equivalent development in semi-rural East Lothian (so a far greater justification for a station); an extra station on the C2C commuter line has far less negative impact than a station on a 2 track section of the ECML (obstructing all the fast trains), so the business case for a station is far better (even if it may not be quite good enough). The absence of any plausible travel alternatives (the road network won’t cope with the new population – even just travelling to the existing stations) means that the full development understandably doesn’t have (and probably couldn’t get) planning permission without a station. Improving road capacity isn’t an option as it would be in East Lothian.