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Crossrail link to Reading hangs in the balance
"Dave" wrote:
A decision on whether to extend the £16billion Crossrail scheme to Reading will be made in the New Year, it emerged today... Good news that they're giving this question a second thought. I suspect, however, that even if they decided to stick with Maidenhead for the initial development, the case to extend to Reading subsequently would be so compelling that it'd happen one way or the other anyway. I think sometimes it's better to start off with a finite, achieveable project even if the case for bigger things seems powerful. Because one thing often does lead to the next. The example I always think of is Bed-Pan electrification - as soon as that was done a strong business case for the original Thameslink project emerged. The other extension to Crossrail that seems fairly obvious to me is to extend the trains currently planned to terminate at Paddington up the former GW&GC joint line. Bring the Old Oak - Northolt East line back into proper use, rebuild the main line platforms at Greenford, making this the first stop out of Padd, then run all-stations to Princes Risboro and Aylesbury (some trains probably terminating at High Wycombe). But this is clearly too extensive to be sensible to include in the initial project. Adie |
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