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Default Crossrail tunnelling complete

On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 08:50:49 +0000 (UTC), d
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On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 08:07:26 +0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
e27002 aurora wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 12:06:21 +0100, Robert
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On 2015-06-04 10:36:20 +0000, Graeme Wall said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33002819

Now they can start building the railway... :-)

Indeed. But it would be good if Crossrail/TfL/NR could add some more
West and Northwest destinations, Gerards Cross, Tring, anywhere. :-)


Yes, I think there's still a hope that Crossrail will provide the WCML
locals to Tring, but I don't know if there's been any progress on the idea.
It may have to wait till the start of the Euston rebuilding for HS2. I
don't think there's any chance that they'll also serve the Chiltern line.


The longer and more complex a route becomes the less reliable it becomes.
IMO I think the tradeoff has already gone a bit too far towards the latter
by running trains all the way to reading. Personally I think crossrail should
have remained pretty much within the M25 boundary with decent interchange to
further destinations.


"Train already left the station" so to speak. The only branch that is
truly self-contained is the South-eastern one to Abbey Wood. The
North-eastern branch will be shared with trains from Liverpool Street,
and some freight.

Likewise 1GW will still be running locals on the GW reliefs and there
will be significant freight from Acton. IMHO, things could be
simplified by taking 1GW trains off the reliefs and having Crossrail
provide the entire passenger service.

 
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