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I can't seem to find a reason within the loading gauge, was it just not worth it financially?

I certainly wouldn't mind getting involved if someone were to set on up. I always try to convince anyone I talk to but a dozen people aren't really going to make a difference.

With the increasing demands on space in central London, could future Crossrail/LU stations be built with a bank of high speed lifts instead of escalators? This would also allow for deeper stations to be built that would hopefully allow more capacity in areas already full of tunnels.

I can't myself come up with an idea to do this but, despite not being a high speed line, the travel times into Waterloo seem particularly bad, far below the speeds outside London. The travel times from Woking are about half an hour and usually include a stop at Clapham or none at all. The...

I was thinking this myself, if you could get the trains underground (possibly though going round the curve westward as you go down before turning south and going over/under the jubilee), could you tunnel a new route entirely and join up further South?

As far as I am aware, all trains that terminate at Cannon Street stop at London Bridge and so take up space in the station and on the tracks in and out. Would it be feasible to send the trains in a tunnel under the current Thameslink lines and out of London, either joining up with the current...