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Re: 93 NEW PHOTOS of the London Underground and National Rail (Was: Cockfosters) |
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Posted by Max Roberts on Thu Jan 11 09:33:37 2007, in response to Re: 93 NEW PHOTOS of the London Underground and National Rail (Was: Cockfosters), posted by Rail Blue on Thu Jan 11 08:37:25 2007. Southampton to Birmingham might not benefit, but Southampton to Nottingham or Peterborough would, and the focus of all services along one route would encourage finding ways of speeding up services on the Southampton line, reducing the time disadvantage even of Southampton to Birmingham.There are other precedents for keeping long distance inter-city services along certain trunk routes even when there is a time disadvantage because the major traffic flows are best catered for. Hence, West Sussex trains travel via East Croydon (or even worse, Hove and East Corydon) when via Sutton is more direct, and in theory should be much faster. Of course, Southampton to Reading would still be useful, for example for getting to Wales, so the services would not be cut. I can check where the portals were located, but it would not surprise me if they were before Clapham Junction was reached in the south. |
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