On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:27:24 +0200, Robin9
wrote:


e27002 aurora;157776 Wrote:

It is intended to be a four track mainline. The fasts to Birmingham
would use the fast pair. The stopping service to Aylesbury, and
Milton Keynes would use the slow pair.

A four track mainline? How many trains a day will run
on it? And carrying how many passengers? The Chiltern
trains I've seen are three coaches long!

Since the privatisation of the railways, it seems no-one
any longer cares about track and signalling costs and cares
even less about who is paying for them.

Network Rail are projecting demand forward to 2043.

Most stations on the GCGW joint route were four platforms. Moreover,
enough land was purchased to enable a four track route.

Sadly, the socialists and their nationalized railway did rather a
good(1) job of managing decline. The British taxpayer is now paying
the price.

(1) for some perverse value of good.