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Chris wrote:

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Stock optimisation? If extended to Reading, you'd only need Crossrail
stock for inner suburban journeys, and the turbo stock could go off
elsewhere where stock is so in demand.....which is a main driver for
the discussions happening within the rail industry for extending
CrossRail back to Oxford - yes, it is a possibility, or was, until the
recession hit. What odds that CrossRail now gets postponed (again?) -
that ought to be the current discussion. Cameron has already been
quoted as saying he can't rule it out if they win the next
election....


Cameron, for once, is taking the sensible option politically and giving
himself room to manouvre. By not making any definite statements about
individual budget items he's not leaving any hostages to fortune. At least
he hopes not. You can't, at this stage, assume anything about any particular
project. From the tory point of view Crossrail still has a lot going for it,
the potential users and beneficiaries are mainly tory voters.

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Graeme Wall

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