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(Mortimer) wrote:
I wonder what the effect will be on the existing
Birmingham-Marylebone service and other services that start closer
to London? Does the line have spare capacity for extra trains from
Oxford, or will existing services have fewer trains to accomodate
the Oxford ones?
I thought they had done some work to enhance capacity? This was the GW
Birmingham main line after all.
The capacity gain seems to be mostly from additional loops at Princes
Risborough and Northholt Jn, and then by running Class 172s on local
stoppers as far as Gerrrards Cross, allowing them to be avoid conflicts with
faster trains, and AIUI there is also some alteration to service patterns
with fewer trains terminating at Bicester North or Banbury.
In any case, the originally proposed timetables including the Oxford service
are all online for comparison, :
http://tinyurl.com/6jvr6zt
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6jvr6zt
Paul S