April 5th 17, 10:37 PM
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On Wed, 05 Apr 2017 13:25:41 +0100
Recliner wrote:
On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 08:39:27 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:
Of course the irony there is that the line could have been used as a
secondary route to/from Brighton if that visionary Beeching hadn't caused it
to be ripped up back to Uckfield.
It would be a much slower route, without the capacity to take much
traffic from the Brighton Main Line route that serves much more
important destinations.
Given the brighton line did go belly up a few times last year any diversion
route would be better than nothing.
Hmm. I suspect there are a lot more people who would potentially commute
from Uckfield with a better service than there are who would be bouncing along
under the north downs.
The North Downs route wouldn't be electrified for the benefit of
commuters.
Then what, freight? Come off it. There was a discussion recently about how
the 92s arn't much liked so why suddenly would they be used in preference to
a 66 or 70 on the 3rd rail network?
Who mentioned freight?
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