Chris Tolley wrote:

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:15:31 +1030, Aidan Stanger wrote:

Do you seriously think there would be the demand?

My comments were primarily about the possibilities of different places
to turn trains. However, since you ask, there was a time when the
service from Birmingham New Street to Redditch consisted of about four
trains a day, and they were pretty thinly used. Then someone had a bit
of vision and started to offer a better service that was better
marketed, with a couple of new stations. Now there are 4tph shifting
thousands of people per day.

Yes, but that goes to the center of Birmingham! The GOBLIN tends to
avoid most commercial areas. It would be perfect as the basis for a
tramway, with on street branches to much of N London, but as a through
route with existing branches, just about any route into London
(including the District Line) would be more popular.