Stratford to Angel Road (STAR) timetable

This may have been mentioned on another thread; but I can't find it.

It seems odd that nearly £200m was spent on this for such a poor timetable in the evening peak. There is a nasty 30 minute gap between 1817 and 1847.

I think 4tph is ok off peak, especially as they are (nearly) clockface departures. But this big gap in the evening is a real pain.

Is this the long term plan or is there a way to get a solid 4tph in the peaks also? There seems to be platform capacity at stratford on platform 11, so where is the restriction?

Edit: just noticed this - which says it Meridian water will get 8tph. Is this likely to affect Lea Bridge? https://www.enfieldindependent.co.u...-regeneration-scheme-gets-156m-funding-boost/

Most of the previous discussion about STAR and Meridian Water is in the infrastructure forum here:
https://www.railforums.co.uk/thread...d-new-station-at-meridian-water.122783/page-7
I’d assume the local news gets 8 tph simply by adding up and down services. Such exaggeration is commonplace...

The newspaper article states that the new funds will be used to provide a fourth platform at Meridian Water and additional track between Tottenham Hale and MW! How any extra trains will be provided is anyone’s guess perhaps extra shuttles just to Tottenham Hale, certainly getting them any further south to Stratford would be a challenge?

Alfie1014 said:

The newspaper article states that the new funds will be used to provide a fourth platform at Meridian Water and additional track between Tottenham Hale and MW! How any extra trains will be provided is anyone’s guess perhaps extra shuttles just to Tottenham Hale, certainly getting them any further south to Stratford would be a challenge?

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If they’re referring to fourth tracks and platforms then surely that doesn’t happen until Crossrail 2? At which time we’ll see significant timetable changes anyway?