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Posted by Rail Blue on Fri Jan 12 19:54:29 2007, in response to Re: West London Line & West Coast Main Line (Was: Cockfosters), posted by David Fairthorne on Fri Jan 12 15:31:52 2007. I am not really keen on your idea, but a single service from Brighton to Birmingham, with good connections at Rugby, seems preferable to your other plan, which included 1 tph from Brighton to Aberystwyth (not much of a "conurbation"!).Well, the point of that is that the fast train from Birmingham to Shrewsbury should continue to Aberystwyth (it beats Pwllheli or the slow route to Chester). Shrewsbury and Telford have particularly bad service through not being electric. A WLL service would probably be diesel, so would provide the perfect service the other side of Birmingham to connect the Shrewsbury fast train into. A through train from Shepherd's Bush to Shrewsbury beats missing your connection from Euston at Birmingham New Street or Wolverhampton High Level! I know Brighton to Aberystwyth sounds silly, but there was a certain sort of logic to it! You could do that to provide two slots per hour, which would be reasonable for Brighton to Birmingham. On the other hand the South London Line is a historical relic, and it could be diverted to Victoria East, or preferably discontinued. Diverting it to the Eastern station would mean it couldn't serve Battersea Park. And besides, the Slow Lines into Victoria aren't full and are unlikely to ever be utilised much above half their capacity. If we're diverting the SLL anywhere, the other end should go to Abbey Wood via Lewisham instead of London Bridge. |
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