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Colin Rosenstiel · December 28th 06, 04:22 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article .com,
(Boltar) wrote:

John Rowland wrote:
New substation locations at regular intervals from the south
coast to Bedford and Cambridge, to push more carriages per hour.

Why would it need new substations on the AC section? Surely that has
enough capacity to cope already?

Oh, you are a laugh! Power supply is a major problem all the way from
King's Cross to King';s Lynn. FCC are hoping to benefit from a Network
Rail booster transformer upgrade between Royston and Shepreth Branch
Junction next year but there is still no feeder station North of Milton.
This makes it almost (but not quite) impossible to run 8-coach trains
North of Cambridge.

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Colin Rosenstiel.