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[email protected] · February 17th 16, 04:40 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , d () wrote:

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 14:35:32 +0000
David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:29:01AM +0000, d wrote:

Compared to the total cost of the ELL extension an extra set of points
would be neither here nor there.

Ahh, so you advocate not bothering to look after the pennies and just
hoping that the pounds will still look after themselves.

That's certainly a novel approach.

So you think a set of reversing points which would have allowed the line
to run instead of being completely closed anytime there's an issue north
of shadwell is a waste of money and **** the passengers? I guess you
must work for TfL. Either that or its idiot week on here again.

It's more than a couple of sets of points of course. There is also the
signalling, and the scarce resource of signalling engineers to commission
the signalling. Costs an arm and a leg these days, sadly.

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Colin Rosenstiel