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Old February 9th 21, 08:28 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default First two HS2 tunnels completed at Euston

On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 17:36:29 +0000
Graeme Wall wrote:
On 08/02/2021 17:27, wrote:
No, that would have been far more disruptive and expensive than building a
new doube-track railway through unpopulated areas.


********. Most of the WCML is in countryside, it would have been easy to
build some extra trackwork in those areas. Thats why I said "where possible".




And what do you do where it isn't possible?


Nothing. This new track would be solely for freight and it would mean that
freight trains can run for further without blocking pax trains than they
do now. It doesn't mean they wouldn't have to stop at all. Through cities
they'd still have to share tracks but thats better than the current situation
and certainly better than spending north of 100 billion on a new pax railway
that will probably makde zero difference to freight times.