On 26/11/2018 15:25, Anna Noyd-Dryver wrote:
Basil Jet wrote:
On 26/11/2018 02:09, Recliner wrote:

The Richmond line crosses the former GWR line to Birmingham at right
angles, so there's no easy connection. And if you cut through the Boden
building and Waitrose to get a connection, you'd miss the more important
OOC station.

You massively overestimate the land needed for the curve. You only need
the car park of the Boden building for a curve the same radius as the
one in Bicester.

I rather think you *underestimate* the land required.

Comparing your proposed curve, the other curves in the Old Oak/Willesden
area, and the Bicester curve, I really don’t think it’ll fit where you want
it to.

Have you measured it on the screen with a circular object? I have,
twice, at two different scales using two different circular objects.

Incidentally, GWR use the Paddington - Park Royal - Ealing - Paddington
for turning trains that have ended up the wrong way round. How will they
turn trains after the line is severed, or will the line be too busy to
even think about it?

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