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Eurostar to quit Waterloo
"Alex Terrell" wrote in message om... My suggestion. Act now, build extended, 400m platforms at a few outer London station (perhaps Surbiton and Staines), and use these to consolidate 8 carriage trains into 16 carriage trains for the final trip through London. It would not be difficult to use these platforms for Windsor Line trains, making it much less likely for any trains to have to queue up outside Waterloo waiting for platforms. But that wonn't make use of the platform length - it would probably be too expensive to extend any Windsor line station to take 12x20m trains, let alone 16- or 20-car. There could be a case for running 15x23m trains on the Southampton Main Line, with platform extensions at, say, Woking, Basingstoke, Winchester, Southampton Airport Parkway and Southampton Central. But to make use of the long platforms at Waterloo, the Fast Lines on the SWML would have to cross the Windsor Lines. I don't think there's room after the Chatham Line bridge to get up to the Linford Street flyover, so it would mean something like getting the Windsor Lines to dive under the Main Lines between Clapham Junction and Culvert Road. The cost would be likely to get so many noughts on it to destroy any business case. There's also the question of what to do with all the passenger accommodation at Waterloo International, waiting rooms, immigration offices, etc. Would it convert into a shopping mall? ;-) Peter |
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