Recent content by SteveOfTheStow

That’s the ROSCO’s problem. Shouldn’t have so poorly spec’d them in the first place.

How I misunderstood ‘between stations’ I don’t know! :oops:

Doesn’t happen most days, so doesn’t quite meet your criteria, but also not far off and starts the conversation: Kent House. Slow trains to Victoria are typically looped at Shortlands two stations away (where the four track route from Bromley South ends), but if a fast is delayed, sometimes the...

Overall I’m glad the day happened, but it could have gone smoother. As it happened, I didn’t get into the shed because I started in the yard first. By the time I was ready for the shed sometime after 2, I was told it had shut. I’d be gutted if I allowed myself to be. Nowhere was such a cutoff...

Off peak and weekends, I’d have thought 4tph to as far as Hertford (with 2 extending to Stevenage) would be enough of a service, but if there were justification for 2 Gordon Hills too, I would happily endorse! Given the 2tph off peak north of Bowes Park in recent times, though, even 4th would...

A lot of nonsense in this thread, but this post is about the most realistic proposal I’ve seen, and as a former daily user of this line I know well how it works and what it needs. That said, the Welwyn’s should be the ones to call at Haringay and Hornsey in lieu of any platform rebuild there...

No-one’s going to pay for that remodelling, unfortunately - Herne Hill is going to stay as-is.

With no stepping back? Cool, so it can be done. I'd question the need, and even the capability, of the Bakerloo line going up to 36tph. 36tph requires huge investment - it took time to get the Victoria line up to that, and everything has to work like clockwork. The Bakerloo is a much older...

The aspiration is for the whole Hayes line + the Beckenham Jn spur to turn brown, yes. This would be incompatible with maintaining Network Rail access over the line - the ORR wouldn’t allow it. Existing dual-running like Queens Park-Harrow is grandfathered and could not be approved today if new...

Lots of info here: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-routes/sussex/london-victoria-track-and-signalling-upgrades/

Crossrail 2 is meant to do exactly this, but who knows when it'll be built. The route is safeguarded, at least. It would be like the Elizabeth line, with fewer stations and mainline-sized trains.

315s on the Lea Valley Lines were well and truly subpar from a passenger comfort perspective even 10 years before their eventual withdrawal. Partly from lack of maintenance, and their 3+2 design meant that they were awful when crowded. Some will say the 710s with their longitudinal seating are...

A single speculation forum never really caters to the two audiences well. Crayonistas want to have fun just playing crayons with others (and a forum is a great space to meet like-minded people with which to share those radical ideas!), whereas others are looking to talk about economically...

Some of them are succinct, clear in purpose - Lioness, Liberty, Windrush. I’m struggling a bit more with Weaver, Sufragette, Mildmay. They do seem more circumstantial. ‘Lea Valley lines’ was already a sufficient name for those out of Liverpool Street. Geographic, rolls off the tongue. I don’t...

Not to buses - there's now a bus gate between South Access Road and Argall Avenue, I believe, which the W19 passes through. For buses, this is a better situation than before, as they used to have to pass through the barrier at the Council Depot to traverse the roadblock, which was not possible...