Farringdon to be London's busiest station
On 20 July, 13:36, "John C" wrote:
"MIG" wrote in message ... Despite it not being southern, I think that Fenchurch street may despatch more trains per platform than even Charing Cross. *(Not relevant to the large complex idea though.) Fenchurch St has a departure from each of the four platforms every 10 minutes or so. The departures work their way across the station with the arriving trains running in parallel into the recently vacated adjacent platform. So you only get one conflicting move every 10 minutes. At any rate, that is what happened in the days of slam door stock, I assume it's the same now. If you get a failure in one of the platforms then it all falls apart very quickly! John Yeah, Charing Cross hasn't got a very efficient approach, due to the structure of the bridge. Platform 4 in particular is a single track all the way across. |
Farringdon to be London's busiest station
"MIG" wrote Yeah, Charing Cross hasn't got a very efficient approach, due to the structure of the bridge. Platform 4 in particular is a single track all the way across. The other limiting factor for Charing Cross is the double track section from London Bridge to Metropolitan Junction, where there are trains (only a few in the peaks) to and from Thameslink. Up and Down Thameslink trains cannot run in parallel at Metropolitan Junction because of the single lead layout Peter |
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