On 28 Mar, 15:56, Tom Anderson wrote:
I'd like to hear more about this assumption, i have to say. On the West
Anglia, fine, but i'm simply skeptical about the possibility of running
more trains in total over the GE route.

On the GE freight runs on the fast lines, so the Shenfield Metro has
dedicated track for most of its length, the only limit being at the
Liverpool Street end. Which means you could send some of the trains
somewhere else when they get to London, like say a great big tunnel,
you're onto a winner.

And yet there is in the peaks? Freight might run mostly off-peak, but the
density of it just isn't high enough to have that effect.

To be honest I'm only assuming Crossrail is going to increase the
overall number of trains because they're spending a lot of money
rebuilding big bits of the GWML further west. Need to do some more
reading.

U

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