On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 20:43:55
on Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Tom Anderson remarked:
None of the stations between Shenfield and Southend have fast trains to
London, for example.

Really? The next train to leave Prittlewell, the 2048, calls all stops to
Shenfield,

And you call that "fast"?? Sheesh.

Fast from Shenfield. Sorry, we're using different definitions of the term
here, and thus arguing at cross purposes.

I don't know if you remember, but we were talking about Crossrail, and
connecting with it, particularly if it only ran to Stratford, as Mr Thant
- flippantly, i think - suggested. What's relevant there is whether any
given station in Essex has a service which will get you to Stratford, to
catch a Stratford-Crossrail train, more quickly than you would if you went
to Shenfield and changed onto a Shenfield-Crossrail train there. This
boils down to whether a station has a service which runs non- or few-stop
Shenfield - Stratford.

Shenfield does, thanks to expresses which call there. All stations beyond
Shenfield do, as that's how the London leg of their routes work. Brentwood
is the only station which doesn't.

Of course, most of those trains aren't fast over all of their route.
Almost none of them are, in fact - just the Norwich intercities, i think,
and those don't even stop at Stratford.

tom

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