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Old January 13th 15, 01:36 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default 5 car Overground trains to Watford Junction

On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:03:08 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:48:26 on Tue, 13 Jan
2015, d remarked:
It was said that enlarging the connaught tunnel for crossrail was "impossible"
but they managed it.


Only by a complete change of plan and draining the dock to
re-cut-and-cover, rather than widening from the inside.


Doesn't matter - they did it. Given how long the ELL was closed for to convert
it they had plenty of time and compared to the works that were required to
raise the line out of the tunnel at shorditch I suspect it would have been
a relatively minor addition to lengthen platforms.

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