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What would be the point of opening Low Moor to Thornhill? It would be useful for the railway to be back in Cleckheaton and Heckmondwike, but Wakefield to Bradford wont generate enough traffic to be worth it. Were it to be the "New Line" through the same communities linking Huddersfield and...

They wouldnt go that way though, theyd only be on the "new" route from Bletchley to Oxford (if we're talkign about Scotland - Southampton freight)

Wouldnt they go Scotland - WCML - Bletchley - Oxford - Southampton? Thus avoiding any pathing issues at Nuneaton/Coventry. On the slow lines all the way to Bletchley then straight over the flyover onto the Varsity Line

The simplest option, as mentioned in this thread before, is swapping the double-voyager that works Birmigham - Glasgow/Edinburgh services for a Pendolino, then using the double voyager on a Euston-Wolverhampton diagram and extending it to Shrewsbury.

I dont think diverting some of the Off-Peak EUS-MCP via Wilmslow trains via Manchester Airport would cause too much uproar as there are already two fast services via Stoke. You couldnt divert Bham - MCP trains that way as theyre only 4/5 carriages and it would mean hideous overcrowding on the...

Obviously just an example... They could have the via Bath trains leaving at xx00 and xx30, and the via Parkway trains at xx10 and xx40. Assuming a 15 min time penalty for going via Heathrow, if the xx10 was sent that way it would still be 5 mins ahead of the xx30 following it.

The plan is for 4 Bristol - London trains per hour (presumably 2 via Bath and 2 via Bristol Parkway). Diverting 1 of the Parkway ones via Heathrow would be beneficial without attracting criticism for slow journey times, as there would be three other direct trains every hour.

I dont see there being an issue for users of Greenfield, Mossley, Slaithwaite and Marsden. The current off-peak hourly service and half-hourly peak will be maintained, with trains running to Piccadilly, which is arguably more convenient for most people than Victoria. Is there really no 4...

On the Basingstoke - Southampton topic, I'm assuming all fast Weymouths will now have to stop at Basingstoke to switch between DC and AC?

Its 30 mins shorter than the hourly Nottingham - Cardiff.... As for people not travelling the whole length - obviously its mainly a commuter route to Birmingham, but plenty of people (myself and my family included) would use it as far as Derby when travelling to Sheffield / Leeds and further...

True. I'm sure some would pay for 1st class but capacity is a big issue - theyd need to be 2x2 car 170's at least if some seating was given over to 1st class

Its a bit different though as it would mean XC running short-distance commuter trains, and all their current fleet has 1st class

Would you envisage XC also operating peak time extra Worcester - Birmingham trains? Would these trains be stabled overnight in Worcester?

It does seem like an unnecessary addition to the X-City network. Will eliminate conflicting paths of terminating trains at Longbridge, but put extra pressure on Bart Green/Lickey Incline. I'm assuming that the new Bromsgrove station will have a large car park? Its so far out of town that...

You could have an hourly LM service : Malvern / Worcester - Droitwich - Bromsgrove - Barnt Green (for Redditch) - University - New Street to run alongside the Hereford - Nottingham which would be an express

Why would 3 TOC's at Worcester would be a problem? Extending the current Nottingham - Birmingham to Hereford would work perfectly, with some extra peak time LM services Malvern/Worcester to Birmingham. When Bromsgrove becomes part of Cross-City, then the Hereford - Nottingham could just...

It would also deprive Sheffield of through services to Liverpool and Peterborough/Norwich, which I imagine would be quite a number of journeys

They could do that now in the current timetable with the current stock available. The trains wait 40 minutes at New Street before returning, and have ridiculous slack between University and there.

Worcester still has "InterCty" services, but I use the speech marks to denote that even with redoubling, the padding and stopping at the likes of Honeybourne and Shipton by HST's means its a local service in all but name. However it used to be served until about 1982 by InterCity services on...

Wow sounds like a hell of a job every night! But that is done in the early hours of the morning, I wonder how Sheffield (or any other examples?) coped with all that shunting about in the middle of the day! (even tho it was the 80's with less services). It would have blocked 2 platforms and a...