On Dec 31, 12:25*pm, "tim...." wrote:
"Robert Cox" wrote in message

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On 2010-12-30 11:03:23 +0000, said:

On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:09:02 -0800 (PST), 1506 wrote:

On Dec 30, 9:16 am, "Graham Harrison"
wrote:
The current plan is to terminate Crossrail at Maidenhead I believe.

During past discussions I recall various people putting forward the
idea
that Reading would be a more logical terminus. Others pointed out that
there wasn't much point as long as Reading wasn't remodelled.

Well, now we're getting the remodelling AND the wires will one day pass
through Reading to Oxford and Newbury.

The question I have is does it make more sense to leave the Crossrail
terminus at Maidenhead or extend it to (or beyond?) Reading at some
point in
the future?

Clearly, the question is almost rhetorical. *Crossrail should go to
Reading.

This is just thinking small. *Crossrail joins up two mainlines - so why
not run services such as Bristol - Norwich (once the knitting
permits) ?

In the timescale you are writing about, it is highly likely that Oxford
will be re-connected to Cambridge using the old LNWR line in some fashion.

You are joking, of course?

It's taken them 25 years of discussion to not even get an agreed plan to
re-open the railway that is still in situ.

IMHO they will never ever get around to filling in the bit that isn't there
anymore.

You are probably right. It is still a wonderful thought though. An
arc from Felixstowe to Brighton would be a wonderful freight and
passenger bypass for London.