I really think we should start a gallery of crossrail
proposals, since everyone seems to have one.
We could have awards - Best Relief of Congestion,
Best Relief Of Central London Interchange,
Best Provision of Access to Regenerating Areas,
Most Entertainingly Unrealistic, etc.

There should be a category for "Most contrived way of serving author's local
station"

There's always my BlackTrack proposal...
http://www.geocities.com/pikkulapsi/ellideas.html

Fortunately my local station (20 minutes walk) has IC125s running
non-stop from it to London SP, so I can't really complain. It would be
cool if they could diverge over the Cricklewood Line, the Kew Spur and
the Windsor Fast Lines into Waterloo and save me a cross-London
transfer ;-)