On 13 Dec, 21:53, wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:13:54 -0000, "Paul Scott"
wrote:

You will only ever see NLL & WLL frequency increasing incrementally, up to
4, 6 or maybe 8 tph over overlapping sections of the line, because it is
also a goods line. When Ken talks about 'metro style frequencies' he seems
to mean better than 4 tph, which is when it is considered (by many) that
you
don't need to worry about the timetable.

Aren't they planning to eventually send the goods trains over a different
route?

As far as I remember, they wanted to send goods trains via the east
london thames crossing, and a new rail link (or, more accurately, the
resurrection of an old one) going from oxford to cambridge.