The Northern Line is a London Underground line running between Morden and Battersea Power Station to Edgware, High Barnet and Mill Hill East. This line is very interesting because it splits many times. After Camden Town station, the line splits into two city branches, one going via Bank and the other going via Charing Cross. North of Camden Town, the line splits into the Edgware and High Barnet/Mill Hill East branches. At Kennington station, the southern converging point for the line, the line splits towards the new Battersea branch, which opened in September of 2021. At Kennington, the line also splits towards Morden. South of Kennington, there is the Kennington loop, a reversing loop for trains. Some trains on the Charing Cross branch either go to Battersea or terminate at Kennington before reversing around the loop and forming another service heading Northbound on the Charing Cross branch. The line currently has a total of 52 stations on exactly 36 miles of track. Rollingstock The Northern Line currently uses only one type of rollingstock, which is the 1995 tube stock. These trains are very similar to the 1996 Tube stock on the Jubilee Line with the main differences between the two trains being the traction motors and the passenger interior These trains entered service in 1998. These trains replaced the 1959 stock on the Northern Line, which were retired in 2000. These trains were refurbished between 2013 and 2015. During the 1980s, the Northern Line had two types of trains which are the 1959 stock and some 1972 Mark 2 stock, so we could see these two trains as a loco DLC pack for the game and a separate timetable for the route, not including the Battersea branch or Night Tube services. 1995 stock Services Peak As of September 2021, morning peak southbound services are: 4 tph from Edgware to Kennington via Charing Cross 2 tph from Edgware to Morden via Charing Cross 12 tph from Edgware to Morden via Bank 4 tph from High Barnet to Kennington via Charing Cross 6 tph from High Barnet to Battersea Power Station via Charing Cross 2 tph from High Barnet to Morden via Charing Cross 8 tph from High Barnet to Morden via Bank 1 tph from Mill Hill East to Kennington via Charing Cross 1 tph from Mill Hill East to Battersea Power Station via Charing Cross 2 tph from Mill Hill East to Morden via Bank This service pattern provides 20 tph between Finchley Central and High Barnet, 4 tph between Finchley Central and Mill Hill East, 6 tph between Kennington and Battersea Power Station and 22 tph everywhere else on the line except between Kennington and Morden and on the Edgware branch where there will be 24 tph. Off Peak As of September 2021, off-peak services are the same as peak services, minus the four hourly trains that run from Morden to the northern branches via Charing Cross: 10 tph from Edgware to Kennington via Charing Cross 10 tph from Edgware to Morden via Bank 4 tph from High Barnet to Kennington via Charing Cross 4 tph from High Barnet to Battersea Power Station via Charing Cross 8 tph from High Barnet to Morden via Bank 1 tph from Mill Hill East to Kennington via Charing Cross 1 tph from Mill Hill East to Battersea Power Station via Charing Cross 2 tph from Mill Hill East to Morden via Bank This service pattern provides 16 tph between Finchley Central and High Barnet, 4 tph between Finchley Central and Mill Hill East, 5 tph between Kennington and Battersea Power Station and 20 tph everywhere else on the line. Night Since 2016, the Northern line has operated Night Tube services on Friday and Saturday nights between Edgware and High Barnet and Morden, via the Charing Cross branch only. Trains run every 15 minutes on each of the northern branches, combining to give eight trains per hour between Camden Town and Morden. There is no Night Tube service on the Mill Hill East, Bank, or Battersea branches. 4 tph from High Barnet to Morden via Charing Cross 4 tph from Edgware to Morden via Charing Cross Now, I know that currently, there is no Night Tube service on the Northern Line due to strikes. So if Night Tube was to return to normal during the summer of this year, we could get pre-pandemic services back on this line. This would be a great route to have in TSW2. It would finally increase the number of subway routes, give the route more of a network style and there would be a ton of services.
Excellent Idea overall and for a retro DLC consider the 1962/1959 stock with Bakerloo Line giving the Silver 1972 stock as a layer. Since this route has ATO CBTC equipped a wrong move here will cause a SPAD US NTSB Stop Signal Overrun because Thales Seltrak is derived from HMA LZB S-Bahn which means your train is behind another one with another 1995 stock behind you.
Excellent suggestion i like the northern line very busy with a large variety of services, but what are your thoughts on the district line, yes its over 45 miles in length with approximately 60 stations so understandably very large project for DTG to do but not impossible with help from just trains who have the metropolitan line. I'd love to see The D78 Stock and the C Stock.
I would like to see the Northern Line but not ultra modern. Take it back a few years when all those narrow island platforms on the City Line and Morden extension were still in situ for some nail biting free roam moments waiting on the station.
