Moving /modifying most of the OHLE portals in Stratford station for starters to enable the the western approaches to P10A and 11 to be split wouldn't be quick /cheap / easy before any of the signal or track mods.
You could fix the four car problem tomorrow. The Saturday and Sunday service requires 11 sets of stock so 22 units if they are all pairs. Plus one the the Upminster shuttle. There are 31 units in the fleet. Weekday peaks 27 of them are booked to work.
Do they not require the lower allocation at weekends to fit in maintenance?
The 1722 down and 1810 back up now form the 1907 to King's Lynn which is only booked a single 317. Curiously the 1528 to Cambridge North and return are booked eight cars instead. They go on to work the 1856 to Hertford East which is what the 1810 from Cheshunt used to do.
Correct me if I'm wrong but most of the spares at stabled at Chingford rather than Ilford. The weekend diagrams are all 315s so most of the spares are 317s whose weekday mileages are low anyway.
I thought the Upminster shuttle was going to be retaining a 315.
Where there's a will, there's a way, nobody is saying this is what SHOULD be done, but it certainly IS possible, frankly I think you're being melodramatic and unrealistic.
Melodramatic maybe, but in the context of how unlikely that is to happen, I think it's fairly proportionate to be dismissive of it. With the current infrastructure, even with changes in layout, it doesn't really work. There'd need to be additional tracks laid and the existing ones moved, which apart from the expense would probably also require some buildings to be removed west of the station. Even fairly basic railway infrastructure projects are proving difficult enough at the moment, this one's a non-starter I'm afraid, much as I would like that not to be so since it would directly benefit me.
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There was an indication that a single 315 would be retained for the Romford - Upminster shuttle... does anyone know if this is still the case? Apart from this no 315s are being kept for the West Anglia routes. I'm sure that they will be diagrammed 8 car in the peak periods.
The retained 315 for Romford-Upminster, and what all the various 710 units are for, has also been discussed at length at least twice in this thread, the first time was in post #35 and subsequent replies.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I suspected the diagrammed double 317s were to be worked by single 710s, not sure if I’m right but I didn’t hear they would ever be coupled in service?
As far as I'm aware it's identical, 31 to replace 31 (though if the singular 315 is in fact retained, then I suppose it's one extra).
7-car District version yes, the 6-car Circle/H&C were always planned to be all longitudinal.
