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Old October 17th 03, 10:01 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Why the piccadilly to Heathrow , why not the District?

"Cast_Iron" wrote in message ...
Boltar wrote:
Even if the picc continued running the main service to the
airport some
distruct trains could have used it occasionally to take up
the slack, the
same way that the picc and met run togather to uxbridge.

B2003


"They" could have done all sorts of things, if the cash was available. Are
you looking at this from a 1960s perspective or a 2000s one?


Why would it have cost more to run larger trains? The difference in tunnelling
costs would have been negligable just to make the tunnels a foot or 2 wider.

B2003