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Old June 16th 10, 12:56 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Mizter T Mizter T is offline
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Default Crossrail - Transport Secretary's statement


On Jun 16, 12:39*pm, wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:08:39 -0700 (PDT)
Andy wrote:
The central London tunnels will be built to an increased loading
gauge. The planned running tunnel diameter of 6.2m is nearly as large
as the 6.3m RER tunnels in Paris and certainly big enough for most
continental stock.


Its nice to be proved wrong sometimes. Lets hope they don't just do something
silly like string up the catenary really low or put a load of trackside
furniture in that precludes UIC gauge trains in the future.


Sorry Boltar but the above doesn't compute... *how* can you be
wrong?!