On 4 Dec, 10:07, "Andrew Heenan" wrote:
What is so great about Shenfield?

The point of the northeast branch is to provide new capacity to
Stratford to relieve the Central Line. East of there the destination
really doesn't matter from a capacity point of view, but the local
services are the obvious choice given their existing high frequency,
high degree of segregation and the platform layout at Stratford.

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