On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 16:29:53
on Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Tom Anderson remarked:
Shenfield is OK, but a bit of a luxury in terms of build cost,

What build cost? The line's already there and working perfectly. It has
OHLE. I have a feeling the platforms are even the right length (mostly).

2/3 of the current crossrail budget would appear to be tarting up
existing lines.

I imagine quite a bit of that is depots, a control centre, and other
one-off infrastructure. Although obviously i'm only sourcing numbers from
my colon here.

and inconveniently distant if the Crossrail trains are
all-station-stoppers.

Aren't Shenfield trains stoppers already?

Maybe - but when I lived there a significant number of long distance
trains had their penultimate stop at Shenfield.

Oh yes, good point. I assume we'll still have these on the fast lines,
right?

And then there were a whole bunch more that stopped every station to
Harold Wood then fast to Stratford.

Ah, didn't know about those, thanks.

tom

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