John Rowland wrote:
"Bob Robinson" wrote in message
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At the Infrarail O5 RCEA seminar in Manchester last week
Parsons Brinkerhof, the project managers for ELL briefed
on the project status. Extensive stabling north of New
Cross Gate - New Cross LUL depot to close.

Oh! So the Selhurst depot is no longer part of the plan. I wonder why the
change? Is this because the planned frequency has dropped from 18tph to
12tph, so the depot requirement has shrunk?

I also wonder at the closure of New Cross Depot - if Wapping and
Rotherhithe are to remain open for Phase 1, New Cross is well suited
for maintaining the stock that could be used for the 'short train'
service for these two stations.

In this way you could run a Dalston-New Cross service using the
four-car 'short train' stock and the normal Dalston-Croydon services
using normal-length trains that skip the two stations on either side of
the tunnel.

It sounds sensible, which means that it will be deemed too
hard/expensive/confusing/difficult and thus discarded.