Path: news.demon.co.uk!demon!on-the-train.demon.co.uk!clive From: "Clive D. W. Feather" Newsgroups: uk.transport.london Subject: Re: Mill Hill East Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 22:57:29 +0100 Organization: Demon Internet Lines: 24 Message-ID: <698VDVfJHDOEFwPp@romana.davros.org> References: <1144141935.265385.123340@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1144145016.872116.248770@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1hdaenm.h49ic0812j2sN%stang@iweb.net.au> <1hdcf1d.13z0qra1b4h8khN%stang@iweb.net.au> <1hddayw.12i168r1y0twwkN%stang@iweb.net.au> <1144406478.662332.260870@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: "Clive D.W. Feather" NNTP-Posting-Host: romana.davros.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1144533651 27881 83.104.183.163 (8 Apr 2006 22:00:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 22:00:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Turnpike/6.05-U (<4BGOXQewMH39CYrC$0kuINBBBw>) Xref: news.demon.co.uk uk.transport.london:76321 In article <1144406478.662332.260870@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, ian.macleod@siemens.com writes >The other flaw in the main arguments are a "through service", a >"through service" to what exactly? Camden? Change. Bank? Change. >Euston? Change. The current through service is to Morden or Kennington. >The notion of reducing train lengths incidentally to save costs is >ridiculous in this instance because there would have to be customised >rolling stock for a branch line. No, there wouldn't. The Northern Line trains are 3-car units, coupled in pairs to make 6-car trains. You could run a single unit as the shuttle. This whole thing is *just* like the Chesham branch: shuttle off-peak, through trains in the peak, shuttle being a single unit and all other trains on the line being pairs. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Home: Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 (work) | Web: Fax: +44 870 051 9937 | Work: Please reply to the Reply-To address, which is: