Bussiest Section of Single Track in UK

[MidnightFlyer]

Was going to suggest the same.

That's 12tph in total and looks so far to be the highest frequency for a single line discounting all the light rail options. Plus the line single isn't just a short spur either but well over 1km in length.

O L Leigh

Reading up its got permission to have 14tph over it. but, its a single track in a DOUBLE BORE tunnel. Why? Its built under the runway too, so little chance of it being rebuilt etc.

 

[O L Leigh]

Yes indeed, there is space for two Stratford services per hour bringing the total up to 14tph.

Not sure what you mean by a "single track in a double bore tunnel". There is just the one bore not two, and that certainly isn't wide enough to accommodate a second line.

O L Leigh

 

[mumrar]

I've just passed over a cracking piece of very busy single track. It's length due to pointwork is probably no more than 1metre. It's at Ely North Jcn and it handles every train running from March to Ely, and all trains in both directions to/from Norwich and Kings Lynn. A classic example of a simplified junction that only works well when all trains are running without fault.

 

[GB]

I've just passed over a cracking piece of very busy single track. It's length due to pointwork is probably no more than 1metre. It's at Ely North Jcn and it handles every train running from March to Ely, and all trains in both directions to/from Norwich and Kings Lynn. A classic example of a simplified junction that only works well when all trains are running without fault.

The March to Ely trains don't physically pass over that part of the line though.

 

[ChrisTheRef]

I'm sorry but Wolves to BHM is definately double....

As is Liverpool to Sandhills

 

[Gavelex]

Liverpool loop is pretty busy in the peaks.

Heathrow T4 LUL is also pretty busy, although the amount of trains that can go round it reduced now due to the stupid forward thinking building T5.

And the DLR between Bow Church junction and Stratford junction (With a passing loop at Pudding Mill Lane)

 

[4SRKT]

These uni-directional loops don't really count IMHO because they don't have the pathing difficulties of planning conflicting movements that you get on conventional single track.

 

[b0b]

If you want to see pathing difficulties, then its got to be Metropolitan Jcn, doesn't the northbound Thameslink service have to make it across 4 (?) tracks of the line to Charing Cross in very quick succession before even making it to the chord up to Blackfriars?

 

[4SRKT]

I reckon the BUSsiest (sic) section of single track in the UK is the single guided busway down the middle of Manchester Road in Bradford

 

[Donny Dave]

I reckon the BUSsiest (sic) section of single track in the UK is the single guided busway down the middle of Manchester Road in Bradford

Groan !

 

[Broken Viking]

I know it doesn't really compare wi' Stansted, but there's a section of the Ascot/Ash line that runs single-road from just south of Frimley to Ash Vale jct, and that's got to be at least three miles long and bi-directional.

As a general rule it handles 4tph (Ascot-Guildford services, 2ph in each direction) but this can increase significantly if the line is being used for diversionary relief.