On 05/06/2015 10:30, e27002 aurora wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 09:53:26 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 09:14:39 on
Fri, 5 Jun 2015, e27002 aurora remarked:
Given the cost of the project, it seems a shame that if they want to
provide a service for Windsor they couldn't have built a tunnel at
Slough and actually gone to Windsor. But I don't understand why they
don't turn at Slough... is the bay platform gone?

Agreed, omitting the Windsor branch was an error.

Is Windsor station long enough,

Maybe not. That is outwith my knowledge. However, given the scale of
Crossra,il solving that issue would be small potatoes.

Have you looked at the Windsor station site and seen who it's neighbours
are? Most of the station site has been sold off as a retail mall. IIRC
the current platform can only cope with a two car DMU. You could
re-extend the platform back across the Goswell Road, there's probably
enough space to fit a Crossrail train.

I seem to remember there was a project[1] to reroute the line to an end
on junction with the LSWR line at Riverside but that would involve a
tunnel and a major rebuild at low level for the latter.

[1] A "fantasy" project not a DfT idea.

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Graeme Wall
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