London Banter - View Single Post - Will Brexit lead to the abandonment of Crossrail2 and Turning SouthLondon Orange?

[email protected] · June 30th 16, 01:13 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , d () wrote:

On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 09:47:41 +0100
Someone Somewhere wrote:
In terms of capacity, I realise there is freight and local services, but
is there really no scope for increasing the number of InterCity trains
north from Euston beyond 9/hour?

Obviously not or they'd have probably done it. AFAIK the real reason for
HS2 is to free up paths on the WCML for freight though I guess this
wouldn't play too well with the public: "We need you lot to pay for this
fancy train so we can shift more containers. Soz"

Not just freight. The capacity shortage also constrains commuter flows south
of about Rugby.

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Colin Rosenstiel