Recent content by stephen_c

Of course the professionals will work on the fine details as time progresses, and if NR has to serve Earlsfield, I'm sure a plan suitable will be made. But we're still a whole stage before that at the moment. Right now, we are in the critical stage of selecting the single preferred option...

I don't think these points are particularly controversial: 1) Services that currently run non-stop on the fast lines from Surbiton to Waterloo will move the slow lines. 2) At least some of those services will stop at Clapham Junction. 3) The platforms at Earlsfield are on the slow lines, and...

The latest proposed service pattern of CR2 is sensible enough in that it takes the existing inner suburban services. My only complaint is that the Waterloo to Waterloo via Kingston service is retained, whereas I'd just run Waterloo to Kingston via Richmond, which should be more reliable and have...

I don't think it is as simple as that. The Teddington trains are going to stop at Raynes Park on current plans. There is also a demand for fast services from Surbiton that don't stop until Clapham Junction. Moving the ex-Teddingtons onto the up slow from the up CR2 at new Malden will slow down...

The problem is the frequency. Can Network Rail reliably thread 4tph from Leatherhead and the 4tph from Teddington through the 20tph of CR2 at that point over a flat junction? In total that is 12-14tph from Motspur Park and 14-16tph from New Malden, with the Teddington and Leatherhead trains...

We know that Epsom is due to get 8tph to London (via Wimbledon), with 4-6tph as Crossrail 2. We also know that Chessington is due to get 4tph. Furthermore, all the Waterloo trains from Epsom are currently planned to stop at Worcester Park and Raynes Park. (All these are published details from...

Just to note that TfL did eventually publish some more detail on the Wimbledon choices they had investigated before the consultation (a slide show, second half is interesting). While TfL did not investigate a fast line tunnel under Wimbledon before the consultation, I have been informed that it...

To clarify though, with CR2 that assumes the faster Surbiton-Waterloo trains would run on the existing slow lines? On journey times, I see this: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/advanced/SUR/to/WAT/2015/11/24/0600-2000?stp=WVS&show=pax-calls&order=wtt Switching slow to fast...

Having asked, the Network Rail team indicated that they want 10 to 12 tph stopping all stations from Wimbledon to Waterloo, with 8tph all stations Raynes Park to Waterloo. There seems to be no talk of better signalling on the tracks, which have a capacity of 18tph (plus 2tph for perturbation)...

The change times can be seen in the source code: https://github.com/jodastephen/railmodel/blob/master/src/main/java/org/joda/railmodel/Crossrail2BalhamSWLondonModel.java#L338 (All the routes and change times are in that file, and even if you don't normally read Java source code, it is relatively...

Its the best analysis possible without access to TfL's data. Bear in mind that if 50% of the passengers on a full Northern Line train at Balham (~330 people) switch to CR2 (which I strongly doubt) it only takes 20% of a full CR2 train to counteract it (as CR2 trains are 2.25 times bigger than...

My conversation indicated clearly 10-12tph outer suburban stopping at WIM with some running through. Like others, I suspect that all outer suburban will end up stopping there, though maybe not Earlsfield. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- My claim is that CR2 at Balham will make the...

True ;-) I asked some more questions at the Raynes Park roadshow yesterday. The NR opinion is that while Raynes Park will retain 8tph to Waterloo, Wimbledon and Earlsfield will get 10tph or 12tph. As such, NR are thinking of running some outer suburban trains, perhaps 8tph, on the current slow...

The sessions are run by either NR (beyond the tunnel) or TfL (along the tunnel). The NR ones know less because they are 2 years behind in planning.

My understanding is that they intend to create a 1 mile long cut and cover box from the portal through the heart of Wimbledon. (a platform box that is 10m to 15m below ground has to be cut and cover, because the existing foundations of the shopping centre are likely to be deeper than that.)...