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Posted by Rail Blue on Fri Mar 18 15:40:30 2005, in response to Re: London news, posted by davesgcr on Thu Mar 17 16:01:10 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.Some of which would be very difficult to extend. Off the top of my head: Epsom - approx 9 cars long with junctions at both ends Ewell West - 8 long, with the southern end of the platforms extremely narrow under bridge - no room to extend Stoneleigh - 8 long island platform - lines converge close to each end. 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 - !) Often with the fast route via Soho having the short turns at Walsall. Madness really. That line is also way too infrequent to be much use off-peak. It makes the 951/A/2/3 look vaguely useful. |
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