John Rowland wrote:
sweek wrote:
i don't see the point in this. There is so much congestion on stations
already that we should work on actually spreading people around more
stations, not trying to centralise it. As long as the termini are
interconnected I think you're fine. And of course Crossrail schemes
can help with that as well.

Actually, it's best if all main lines passed through London, and all lines
interchanged with each other and with all tube lines, but not too many lines
interchanging at the same station. That way a terrorist strike on a single
station causes minimal disruption. A single London Central station has no
benefits and huge disbenefits.

Actually if the point is simply to interchange and that the passenger
doesn't want to go to London at all then I would suggest a couple of
decent orbital rail service. I would like one around the M25 and one
around the North/South Circular.

Someone coming from the North and going to Southampton, say, could take
their service as far as the outer orbital, then round the orbital, then
from there to Southampton. Still 2 interchanges but would reduce the
congestion in London.

Note that having such orbital services would also provide commuters
with an alternative that using their cars and would justify any
road-charging schemes for those who continued to do so anyway. The
money raised from any such road-charging schemes would then help to pay
for the cost of building and maintaining the railway.