London Crossrail 2
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2013\01\01 15:34, e27002 wrote:
On 1 Jan, 14:22, wrote:
The larger scheme now being looked at is probably the most likely to go
ahead - the extra expense but is more than compensated by the far
greater benefits especially to the SWML.
That is probably the better choice. At the moment, as I read the
Modern Railways article, they have not narrowed down the service
groups on the SWML. Taking on too many is a recipe for poor
timekeeping.
This is why proposals for taking over the Wimbledon branch are now
looking unlikely as the tunnel will probably need to extend at least as
far south as Wimbledon to allow certain services to be diverted off the mainline.
That said; the subsurface network badly needs simplification.
I'm guessing that Earls Court to Parsons Green would become Wimbleware
only, so that there would no longer be any shared track between the
District and Wimbleware, and they would probably be advertised as separate lines.
But that doesn't get rid of all the flat junctions around the Circle,
causes the problems.
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