On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 14:12:29 -0700 (PDT), D7666
wrote:

On Aug 4, 9:10*pm, Neil Williams
wrote:

Realistically, Crossrail will need "standee trains", perhaps the same
layout as the S stock for LUL.

However, that will depend on if/when they decide on longer distance
trains - once they start on things like Oxford - Ipswich or further
you end up with the same mess of mixed needs that TL suffers from now
and always will suffer from.

Oxford Ipswich or any other destination you can think of might not be
in any known Crossrail plan for the time being, but nor were many of
the current TL destinations when it was conceived, purely as a GLC led
cross London inner suburban route, and certainly not many of the TLP
proposals.


Oxford to Cambridge via Crossrail? If nothing else, it would put an
end to the more fanciful proposals (east of Bedford) by the East-West
Rail consortium.