On Oct 4, 9:26 am, Boltar wrote:
This would be for trains dedicated to the new crossrail tunnel route
just like the shuttle trains at the channel tunnel. All they'd need to
do is have a depot at one end and a turnaround at the other. Normal UK
trains could also use the tunnel too of course for through journeys.

Seems like a good idea, but you need most of the trains to continue
beyond Stratford and Custom House, and those would need to be single
deckers. Realistically, that means you could only run at most a third
of the trains as double deckers, and that's only by limiting the
service to Abbey Wood to 4 tph. It looks like a non-starter to me.

What they are doing quite sensibly is digging 12 carriage platform
caverns for the underground stations, even though the project is
designed around 10 carriage trains.

U

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