"Angus Bryant" wrote in message
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"Rob" wrote in message
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The Crossrail branch to Kingston will probably
replace the District line service to Richmond.
What should happen to the 6 District trains per
hour that currently serve Richmond?

What about sending the district to Rayners lane?
the sending all piccs to heathrow? in which case
the picc and deistrict wouldn't have to share any track?

That seems the most logical solution, and would allow
increased frequencies to Heathrow. After all, the line
to Rayner's Lane was originally District wasn't it?

It would be sensible, however, for Crossrail to serve
Willesden regardless, although this would necessitate
a dog-leg off the GWML and back again. This would
allow many more lines (WLL, NLL, WCML DC lines)
to get a decent Heathrow connection.

How about...

* running the missing Crossrail 6tph to Park Royal (via the barely-used
mainline) and then taking over the Picc to Uxbridge, so that the decent
radial railway from Uxbridge to Park Royal has a decent radial continuation
to London, instead of being welded onto an orbital route from Park Royal to
Chiswick
* running the Crossrail Kingston branch via a relocated North Acton station
and a relocated Acton Central station for potential tram interchange
* diverting the North London Line at the relocated North Acton to Heathrow,
calling at Southall and all the other stations that Crossrail won't serve.
* District line taking over Acton Town to Park Royal
* entire Picc service to Heathrow.

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That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

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"Richard J." wrote in message
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The reason why they have not proceeded with the NLL option
is that it would be a slower line, there are greater problems
with conflicts with NLL and freight services than with the
tunnel option, and a couple of level crossings which can't
easily be avoided without tunnels.

I find it hard to believe that a couple of level crossings are even a small
part of the reason for a tunnel costing, what, hundreds of millions? Bollo
Lane, and especially Churchfield Road, are exactly the sort of streets in
which councils erect barriers to prevent rat-running, so closing both roads
at the railway is an obvious and cheap solution.

I would truncate the NLL at Willesden, or remove it altogether, at
least in my Outer Circle plan (I shall post it soon). This would be
more cost-effective, and have the benefit of serving Acton Central.
Even building tunnels for those roads would be cheaper than the
current proposal.