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Posted by David Fairthorne on Sat Jan 13 15:54:40 2007, in response to Re: West London Line & West Coast Main Line (Was: Cockfosters), posted by Rail Blue on Sat Jan 13 14:40:07 2007. The at capacity section is through East and South Croydon stations.You are right. - Do something to the Tattenham Corner Branch. This is currently a big waste of slots across East Croydon. Neither the Tattenham Corner nor the Caterham branch has very high ridership, and both have short platforms, so it seems logical to serve them with short trains. But I don't think commuters on these branches would appreciate street-running. Splitting and joining trains at Purley, to make up long trains, can be done without blocking the main line. Or possibly you might operate both branches as shuttle services terminating at Purley. Then the service on the slow tracks via Purley and Reigate should be made more frequent, which I think is desirable anyway. - Make rather better use of the possibility of cross-platform transfers at Hayward's Heath - this can be used to provide fairly empty trains at Three Bridges and Gatwick Airport. Not sure what you have in mind here. - Lengthen the platforms at Salfords station from 8- to 12-cars, then combine short slow trains at Gatwick Airport. Short slow trains could serve short-platformed stations south of Gatwick; north of Gatwick they would form long semi-fast trains. Other long fast trains would continue to run to the coast, calling only at long-platformed stations south of Gatwick. - Kill the Gatwick Express - at peak times it's a waste of capacity, off-peak it doesn't provide any meaningful advantage. I am in favour of capital punishment in this case. - Create a bay platform 4 at Redhill so that those short Tonbridge trains don't waste main line slots (the only sizeable place on the line, Edenbridge, can be better served by the Uckfield Line). Agreed. Let the people change to short trains at Redhill if they are going east via Edenbridge or west via Reigate. |
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