Re: Crossrail link to Reading hangs in the balance

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tims_new_home@xxxxxxxxxxx (tim.....) wrote:

"Adrian Auer-Hudson, MIMIS" <adrian_h_hudson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Dec 26, 5:42 am, adr...@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Adrian the Rock) wrote:

The other extension to Crossrail that seems fairly obvious to me is
to
extend the trains currently planned to terminate at Paddington up the
former GW&GC joint line. Bring the Old Oak - Northolt East line back
into proper use, rebuild the main line platforms at Greenford, making
this the first stop out of Padd, then run all-stations to Princes
Risboro and Aylesbury (some trains probably terminating at High
Wycombe). But this is clearly too extensive to be sensible to include
in the initial project.

There are two issues with this idea. Firstly it would mean an
expensive electrification of the route to Aylesbury by way of
Prices Risborough.

Provided it is done at the time that life expire stock is to be
replaced, electrification is usually a lower cost option over the
total life of the new stock, however expensive the actual
conversion.

Secondly, there is the Birmingham service to consider. It would
either have to remain a DMU operation with many miles under the
wire,

Well this wouldn't be the first time. Cross country runs "under
the wire" all the way from Birmingham to Manchester and York to
Edinburgh, which is much further than this piddly little bit of
track to PR.

How much longer though? Aren't some of those routes being handed over to
VWC?

--
Colin Rosenstiel
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