Got a response about this from the Crossrail team, so thought I'd post it
here. Not quite sure which services will continue to serve Maryland, as I
would have thought longer distance ones would be a bit frustrated to have to
stop again so close to Stratford, but there you are...

Jonn


----- Original Message -----
From: Iren Dibble-Szucs
To:
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:17 AM
Subject: Crossrail enquiry

Dear Mr Elledge

Thank you for visiting www.crossrail.co.uk and your email, which has been
passed to me for attention. Please accept my apology for the delay in
responding.

Service patterns have not been established however it is estimated that
there would be 24 trains per hour through the central area with a split of
12 trains per hour equally on each of the branches. I can not confirm at
this stage that every Crossrail train will stop at every intended Crossrail
station.
As you noted, Crossrail line 1 does not intend to stop at Maryland, the
station will continue to be served by other train services to/from Liverpool
St station.

We have started a public awareness campaign to raise the profile of the
project with the general public and collect details of people and
organisations who would like to be kept informed about the project.
Following this will be a programme of Information Centres (November 2003) to
explain Crossrail and its effects on each area.

The Crossrail Bill process will take approximately 2 years and therefore
construction is not expected to commence until 2006. The current timetable
would see Crossrail line 1 open and rail services commence as part of a
staged programme in 2013.

We have recorded your interest in Crossrail and will contact you again
when we undertake the public consultation exercise.


Irén Dibble-Szücs
Consultation Co-ordination Manager