On Dec 8, 8:41*pm, MIG wrote:
On Dec 8, 8:15*pm, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at
16:01:51 on Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Tom Anderson
remarked:

Brentwood is the first station in Essex on that line, as I recall.

Correct. And as the only station in Essex which wouldn't have fast
trains to Stratford [1], they would be particularly hard done by.

That's the current situation I think.

*[1] This is probably not true.

Wildly untrue. None of the stations between Shenfield and Southend have
fast trains to London, for example.

It's true if "fast" means "non-stop from Shenfield". *They all have
trains that go non-stop from Shenfield, and some non-stop from
Billericay.

Brentwood is currently only served by trains that do all stations off-
peak and substantial number of stations in the peak. *It wouldn't be a
change to get a similar service under Crossrail. *It's the only
station in Essex (current boundary ...) not to have non-stop trains
even to Stratford, but then it's the sort of station that non-stop
trains don't stop at, so not really surprising.

I was expressing that badly. I am getting at it not having trains
that go non-stop to Stratford from no further out than Shenfield. But
really this boils down to it being the only station in Essex (current
boundary) that isn't further out than Shenfield.