On Apr 3, 11:47*am, "Paul Scott"
wrote:
"Tom Anderson" wrote in message

rth.li...

Yes. I read the various east-west studies a few years ago, and the common
theme was congestion relief in the Essix [1] - City - Oxford Circus
corridor. The current plan won't do much for congestion east of Liverpool
Street, because it adds neither track nor trains (alright, it adds track
between Liverpool Street and Stratford - but is there any plan to use the
capacity released on the surface line?), but it should help enormously
between Stratford and Oxford Street.

There will still be residual services on the slow lines to/from Liverpool St
in the peaks, *Crossrail doesn't replacement all of the existing service, so
the total number of trains into Liverpool St (ie high and low level
conbined) should be somewhat greater than now.
The Network Rail 2nd gen RUS for London and the SE covers the subject, and
suggests that 8 current services are removed in the high peak hour to make
room for the 12 Crossrail.

IMHO, it would be better to move entire service groups over to
Crossrail. Passengers will still pass thru Liverpool Street.

There are also some loosely worded plans to make more use of the West Anglia
routes into Liverpool St. *Ideally the trains from the Lea Valley into
Stratford would be increased and run through to the terminus, but they are
on the wrong side of the mainlines.

Paul S