On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Paul Corfield wrote:

Stations could be added at Forest Road, Fulbourne Rd / A406 and at
Chingford Hatch. You could possibly squeeze one in at Coppermill Lane as
well. Ideally more tram / train like vehicles with high acceleration and
braking should be provided to replace the current units which would
provide the requisite line capacity for a much more frequent service.

Interesting. ISTM that you wouldn't be able to provide as fast a service
down into town this way, if you really did use something tramlike; do you
think the improved local links would outweigh that disbenefit?

You could get better acceleration and braking whilst maintaining good top
speeds, i think, using something like S stock. Maybe that's not fast
enough, i dunno.

Perhaps the answer is a hybrid service, with proper trains serving the
existing stations, and tram/trains running on the same tracks and also
stopping at a set of halts in between. Should some kind of tram ever come
to northeast London, this could serve as its backbone. You wouldn't be
able to run a very frequent real train service, though, as you'd need to
fit the trams in between them, and the speed difference means that there
have to be quite long gaps between trams and trains.

tom

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