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Recliner[_3_] · November 12th 15, 08:50 AM posted to uk.transport.london

Robin9 wrote:

NY;151690 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.

In a recent thread about this route, it was accepted that
Paddington does not have enough spare capacity to receive
Chiltern trains.

I think the conclusion was that the limitation was on capacity on the lines
into Paddington, rather than the station itself. Crossrail will move quite
a few current GWR services from the surface station to the basement,
leaving the higher numbered platforms little used.