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[email protected] · August 2nd 11, 12:08 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
15:47:21 on Mon, 1 Aug 2011, remarked:
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.

It was the track they upgraded, to increase the speed. It was closed
for a week during (iirc) August, when it was expected to have less
passengers.

Was that meant to be an attempt at contradiction or just an irrelevant
remark?

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.

Locos can go as far as Chesterton sidings, I think.

Now, I agree. Not when Royston-Shepreth Branch Junction was first
electrified, though.

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Colin Rosenstiel