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Posted by davesgcr on Thu Mar 17 16:01:24 2005, in response to Re: London news, posted by Fytton on Thu Mar 17 09:43:14 2005. Good debate - and getting to the meat of the problem on terminal capacity and service patterns!.I think that a comprehensive look at 1-4 at Wateloo could give longer platforms at the expense of the south sidings - but destinations would be limited unless the whole SWT network was rejigged to deal with longer trains.Ditto double deckers - one of the key Southern attributes is almost universality of flexibility in cross working unts of say the Epsom route to the Hampton Court branch.Consider also ecomonies of reducing train lengths off peak to save costs (units are no longer "free" -and mileage quotas if exceeded cost payouts to ROSCOs.Loop services are quite efficient on train and crew schedules - a Luton to Luton via Sutton is tedious for the traincrew but efficient in eliminating "wasted" resource time at terminal stands - its common for a Thameslink suburban crew to do 2 round trips easily in an 8 hr turn - the present "cut" service to St Pancras or Kings X Tlink takes quite a lot of extra drivers and units - hence the influx of 317s at the north end at the moment. "looping" is not just suburban - there are Victoria to Victoria rounders out via Ashford and Thanet - as well as complicated shuffles around Se London. In the West Midlands - interworking with fast and slow Walsall trains leads to both clockwise and anti clockwise workings (out via Aston and back via Soho - !) |
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