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Posted by Rail Blue on Thu Sep 14 08:32:56 2006, in response to Re: London Overground, posted by David Fairthorne on Wed Sep 13 15:41:06 2006. The SRA Route Utilisation Strategy, which was mainly concerned with the fast services, and has apparently been dropped, proposed the following suburban routes, each of which would have had just two tph, running all day.And it was fundamentally flawed in its suburban service plan. Just look at what ends up serving Sutton to Epsom: the sensible route to Victoria gets cut from 4tph (2 fast, 2 slow) to 2tph (all slow), the 1tph silly route (via Norbury) to Victoria disappears altogether, and a 2tph extremely silly slow route (via Norbury) to London Bridge appears. And this is just the worst of the horrible loopy suburban routes. The SRA seemed to have forgotten that people might actually want to get somewhere, rather than touring South London on circuitous trains. Part of the problem, however, is Thameslink. Making it eat up capacity at Tulse Hill which could be used by sensible trains to London Bridge contributes to silly ideas like sending London Bridge trains from Sutton to Tulse Hill via Norbury. |
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