London Banter - View Single Post - Crossrail link to Reading hangs in the balance

Tom Anderson · January 1st 08, 07:55 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, wrote:

On Dec 27 2007, 6:26*pm, Roland Perry wrote:
In message
, at
08:46:24 on Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Paul Weaver
remarked:

A decision on whether to extend the £16billion Crossrail scheme to Reading
will be made in the New Year, it emerged today.

If it is, then presumably the current semifast services from Reading
will be relegated to all-stops, and there won't be much choice for
passangers from the Slough-Reading corridor

Is that what another poster referred to in a different thread as "St
Alban-isation"? (I took this to be a reference to BedPan electrification
meaning mainline services no longer stopped there).

But St Albanisation (I coined it!) in this context would mean
eliminating inter-city stops at Slough. (Then you would have what
might be called Sloughification )

Sloughing, perhaps.

http://www.esquire.com/style/grooming/sloughing1107

tom

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