On Dec 3, 9:57*am, Mr Thant
wrote:
On 3 Dec, 09:40, "Andrew Heenan" wrote:

Once it's built, people with brains will start to say Shenfield? Abbey Wood?
Other Stations Halfway To A Logical Junction? Get Real!

Cockfosters? Epping? West Ruislip? Amersham? Get Real!

Or: Welwyn Garden City? St Albans? Hertford North? Shenfield? High
Wycombe? West Croydon? etc etc

I'd reckon the number of London inner-suburban services terminating
nowhere in particular outweighs the number terminating at a "logical
junction", to apparently no harm.

Shenfield is a junction* and also a place where people from Harold
Wood etc can change to longer-distance services. To make Maidenhead
in any way equivalent (particularly given that Reading is already
those things plus a major town) there would have to be major changes
if paths that used to go to Reading are taken up by Crossrail, eg

All services from Paddington running non-stop to at least Maidenhead

Some Wales and Bristol services calling at Maidenhead (and maybe
missing out Reading).

Maybe that's what will happen. Or maybe the stations between
Maidenhead and Reading will lose their service.


*Yeah I know Maidenhead sort of is.