On 4 Aug, 07:54, TimB wrote:
On Aug 3, 8:40*pm, "Peter Masson" wrote:





"anthony" wrote in message

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I have wondred about the rolling stock for crossrail services but one
question i have *is that couldn't some 2/3 carriage EMU'S be built so
that *peak hour trains can be split/attached so that they can serve
some of the thames valley branches *instead of having a shuttle on
those lines?

One such route i am thinking about is the Maidenhead to Marlow branch,
doesnt this have through services to London during peak hours?

Marlow and Henley won't be electrified as part of Crossrail (and probably
not as part of the GWML electrification). So they'll either lose their peak
trains through to/from Paddington, or these will be dmus. One reason for
running Crossrail with 10-car trains throughout the day is that the central
area stations will be double ended, so trains that use the full length of
the platforms will be desirable.

Peter
(old enough to remember when the Henley to Paddington through trains were
Hymek + coaches)

Peter

I was wondering just the other day why there wasn't a joint
procurement process for Thameslink and Crossrail... *something the
coalition could look at?
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This is the question I have been asking.

the official argument for separate fleets is that Crossrail needs to
have 23 m long cars with three doors a side because of the capacity
requirements/ station dwell times while Thameslink can accomodate only
20 m long cars with two doors a side because of curvature. - despite
similar capacity/dwell time issues.

I'm still not convinced.

Rogert