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Old March 19th 12, 06:16 AM posted to uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london
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Default Crossrail tunnelling to start shortly

On Mar 18, 8:23*pm, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2012\03\18 16:34, 77002 wrote:





On Mar 18, 3:01 pm, *wrote:
On Mar 18, 12:44 pm, *wrote:


Partially by planning to build trains that have few seats and no toilets.
This is the cost of involving TfL I suppose. *Why cannot Crossrail be
run in a similar manner to Thameslink?


I suggest if through route Thameslink did not already exist and/or the
present trains on the route did not already exist, then it would be
more Crossrail like; indeed, I suggest it would also be a more metro
less main line operation, with slow all stations trains to SR ML and
GN suburban destinations, without *old NSE *type network express
workings.


Indeed, if I planned TL from scratch, I'd never have linked it in with
GN, but with the Met (and electrified GC suburban) at West Hampstead.
Instead we have a supermarket where we should have junctions
infrastructure, and three disjointed stations instead of one.


Cricklewood and a new junction at Neasden would have been my preferred
means of taking Thameslink onto the Met.& *Chiltern.


The new bridge carrying Neasden Lane would be visible from Crystal Palace!


The curve towards Harrow would be West of the Railway Bridge, no?