Diary of a rail fan in Kansai,Japan(Ver.2)

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Why is the metroisation interesting?

London Mayor calls for suburban rail ‘metroisation’ and restructuring
https://www.metro-report.com/news/news-by-region/europe/single-view/view/mayor-calls-for-tfl-to-replace-network-rail-as-infrastructure-manager.html

An increase in frequencies is one of the common ways for metroisation. But, developing more homes by a railway company is a rare case except for Japan's major private railways, which has developed radially from downtown or sub-downtown of mega cities with development of real estates like homes.
It's interesting to see the similar phenomenon in UK.