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Ardley has been on the cards and being developed for a number of years, this isn't really anything new. The issue will be what gauge can be sorted for the Chilterns or you are in for some very inefficient messing about with Intermodals. If you read SABRE, the "significant improvements" to J10...

Not really, depends on your viewpoint. STP would be bidding them every week where the spot bid covers longer.

Nowhere can manage 60 second headways. 30 second dwells at a heavy rail station like New St is also folly, its not the London Underground.

Why? How many fast line services are you running?

As above, its the Norwich you have to retime.

Basically, and even that isn't particularly easy depending on where they need to be as it isn't always halfway along as most peoples immediate assumption will be.

Wolves is only two tracks to Wolves North Jn, and I can't see where you can fit another platform on the up side. Your other idea was proposed around 10-15 years ago for Brinsford.

Autumn next year.

Wouldn't they need to have voids for that to work?

There is a combination at the back end of the hour with the Alderley Edge, Norwich and Stoke where you'd need to do some reshuffling without 0.

Wolves New St is 10tph now. New St International is 9tph. New St to Coventry does not need to be 10tph, its 6tph now potentially 7tph once HS2 opens.

It got removed as the cash ran out, not because it was too difficult.

Its not closed. It has several trains booked into it, part of the issue is staffing it.

Decarbonising doesn't need what you are proposing, OLE does that. You haven't answered where the need is, what is lacking, where does the increase in capacity need to be and what is it for? Why does everywhere within 30 minutes need 6tph? A lot of London only just achieves that, Liverpool...

The question you have to answer is "why". What is it you are trying to provide and why? I don't see where the land is to 4 track the Cov corridor, nor out to Kings Norton, nor on the Camp Hill. Cross City will eventually go back to 6tph, how many more does it need to be, why does it need to be...