Basil Jet wrote:
On 2015\11\11 22:56, Graham Harrison wrote:
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:31:51 -0000, "NY" wrote:

"Basil Jet" wrote in message
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In the latest RAIL, the Business Development Manager (I think that was his
title) of Chiltern says that he wants to run trains to Old Oak Common via
the Park Royal line, which he said would need upgrading. I presume he was
talking about more than the one return journey the line gets now.

And I presume he intends running trains ultimately to Paddington, not
terminating them at OOC :-)

I wonder if his intention will be eventually to run all Birmingham/Wycombe
trains to Paddington rather than Marylebone, or whether some trains will go
to Paddington and some/most to Marylebone.

When Marylebone was under threat of closure in the 1980s, the plane was for
all Wycombe trains to use the Park Royal line.

Why Paddington? Once OOC is up and running as a Crossrail station it
makes perfect sense for Chiltern to target it.

Crossrail's just a glorified tube line. No-one would ever say Chiltern
should terminate a load of trains at Sudbury Hill Harrow to target the
Piccadilly Line. Old Oak Common will not offer noticeably more than West
Hampstead, whose Jubilee Line and North London Line and Thameslink
trains to Gatwick and Luton are not worth slowing down for.

Connecting to Crossrail will provide many more useful connections than are
available from Marylebone (or West Hampstead), including Heathrow, the West
End, City and Canary Wharf.