On 19 Jan, 01:10, Mizter T wrote:

On 18 Jan, 22:36, (Neil Williams)
wrote:

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:25:23 -0800 (PST), wrote:
Better still, use DMUs and run it through to Aylesbury!

That'd be a seriously useful service, and would get a lot of the
benefits of Aylesbury-Bletchley for very little of the additional
cost.

Indeed, a very interesting idea - has this ever been mooted before
because it's the first time I've heard of such a notion?


Silly me, thinking that it was possible no-one had really suggested
this already! The Wikipedia article makes plenty of mention of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croxley_Rail_Link

I'm evidently just not that imaginative to have thought about it
already. A potential through service from Aylesbury is surely *the*
selling point of this link, is it not? I could never get myself that
excited about it beforehand, as I didn't think the benefits of there
being 'more Met line' at Watford really made the whole thing seem that
worthwhile, but as part of a wider service the proposed Croxley link
starts to look rather more attractive.