matacaster
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What's wrong with Branches?
With modern rolling stock the time penalty from reversing is minor and why would they need to go to more than two of these cities anyway?
This saves money as each city only needs one route into the centre.
For people in the north, connectivity to London is presently, I suggest, little to no problem at all - (circa 2 hours, 200 miles Leeds to London). The journey times are very reasonable, the stock is decent with plenty of facilities. Any minor overcrowding is essentially just early morning and to a lesser extent evening return.
Contrast that with
Leeds- Sheffield (1 hour, 40 miles)
Leeds to Birmingham (1hr 46mins, 100 miles)
Leeds to Bristol (3hrs 45 mins, approx 160miles)
Leeds to Liverpool (1hr 35mins, 76 Miles)
Leeds to Glasgow (4hrs 11 mins, 179 miles)
all above figures from internet searches and note that times given are from Leeds a major hub, people who do not live near Leeds will have a harder time.
Cross Country trains are about half the length they need to be and TPE will be very near the capacity of the new trains by the time they eventually get fully introduced. There is more need for extra capacity on cross country than on trains to London.
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