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More trains on old WAGN lines
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:56:30 +0000, Paul Corfield wrote:
But why don't they do some similar bribery to get more trains running on the overground ? I come in from Palmers Green to Moorgate every morning and there are huge gaps in the service. I think the issue will lie somewhere between DfT and Network Rail. DfT is more interested in screwing huge premiums out of franchise holders than it is in getting more trains running or funding an expansion in infrastructure. The lines out of Kings Cross and Moorgate are pretty much full in the peaks due to the need to mesh fast, semi fast and local trains on the tracks alongside GNER, Hull Trains and soon Grand Central. But those trains don't use the Hertford Loop (the line through Palmers Green). The section from Alexandra Palace to Finsbury Park might be a bottleneck, but aren't there extra tracks there? Yes and where do they then go? Moorgate is a very tight bottleneck and Kings Cross is pretty much at capacity AIUI. Mr Cowling is complaining about the peak timetable IIRC. I was thinking Moorgate. It currently handles 12tph in the peaks; Brixton has the same layout and manages 30tph. But I suppose it's not that simple. |
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