On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 12:29:56 +0100
Basil Jet wrote:
On 06/10/2020 11:49, Trolleybus wrote:
On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 10:42:26 +0100, Basil Jet
wrote:

On 06/10/2020 10:06, Recliner wrote:

Yes. Personally, I don't think Crossrail should go as far as Reading. I
think Slough was far enough.

Windsor IMO, assuming crossing the mainline is at all possible.

It's single track from Slough and a single platform, so capacity and
the ability to recover during disruption are poor.

I think the entire formation is double track. The station is massive and
used to have three platforms, although most of it is taken up with
restaurant seating areas at the moment which could be repurposed. I'm

I doubt Windsor town council will give up their major shopping centre
without a fight frankly. It probably should have been kept as a station but
its took late now. The current station is just a miserable single track halt.

Windsor low level station would make more sense wrt size but unfortunately its
3rd rail and linked to the wrong part of the network.