lancastrian
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I was catching up with posts that I had missed and came across yours. I would the plans and explanations very interesting. Having looked at the plans one question leapt to my mind. While I am delighted to see the re-quadrupling of the line here is to be applauded, why only this short bit, surely it would have made far more sense to re-quadruple the line all the way from Edgehill through to Huyton Junction, separating the St. Helen's - Wigan services on the northern pair of tracks and the Manchester services on the southern pair of tracks, this would stop any trains crossing each others paths, which to me always causes time penalties.
I would be interested to hear other views.