Future
Increases in passenger numbers have led to severe overcrowding at peak times and it is not possible to further increase peak time train frequencies without reducing the number of goods trains as the line can currently only accommodate 8 trains per hour in total (in each direction). To extend the passenger trains with additional coaches requires station upgrades as some of the station platforms are too short to accommodate longer trains. In 2008 the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, indicated that the shortest platforms will be extended by 2010 and that three-car trains will be introduced but ruled out electrification, for the time being, on grounds of the cost and difficulty of electrifying a line with so many viaducts and bridges.
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