On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Dave Arquati wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

"It would allow trains serving the current Chiltern lines to run straight
into London and through to Essex."

Definitely wrong. The scheme used to "go" to Aylesbury but that branch
was dropped pretty soon after CLRL took the project on board a few years
ago.

That's what i thought. That's really quite a while for the BBC to have
caught up!

"The second route would link Herts and Beds with Clapham Junction."

Beds is probably wrong, although it's very much up in the air. Herts
could get Crossrail 2 services; it depends if they decide to run any up
the Lea Valley line.

I hadn't heard about this idea (until i looked at your site, obviously).
It's pretty obvious - Stratford, Lea Valley Line (more or less unused for
passengers at the moment), Tottenham Hale, some set of stations to the
north (hopefully Stansted). Is it being seriously considered? For some
value of 'seriously' appropriate to the entirely hypothetical Crossrail 2,
of course.

Clapham Junction would almost definitely get Crossrail 2.

Almost? If it doesn't, someone's getting their legs broken.

Also, are they still going with this stupid tube gauge idea, or have they
seen sense?

tom

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