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[email protected] · August 1st 11, 09:47 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
10:45:03 on Mon, 1 Aug 2011, remarked:
Cruisers went when FCC took over. They are Express services now and
they are quite a bit faster than alternatives.

Same service, different name. They are indeed a little faster, but
their existence has rather spoilt your perception of what's a
semi-fast train.

Uh-oh! They are if anything slower.

I meant faster than the semi-fasts.

More trains now call at Royston and/or Letchworth and end-to-end times
are almost never as quick as 45 minutes any more.

And after all that fuss in what, 2001, about chopping a minute off
the end to end time, by upgrading Cambridge-Royston.

The Cambridge-Royston power supply has been upgraded twice since
electrification. At first nothing more than a four car EMU could use it,
then up to 8 cars and now 12 cars. I think the odd loco can now be
accommodated but I could be wrong.

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Colin Rosenstiel