Think a variation of the above lasted until late 2008. Typically, in the later years, before it was discontinued, the station calls were Brighton, Haywards Heath, Gatwick Airport, East Croydon, Kensington Olympia, Reading, Oxford, Banbury, Leamington Spa, Coventry, Birmingham International, Birmingham New Street, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent, Congleton, Macclesfield, Stockport and Manchester Piccadilly.
All very well, but the North London Line Connection isn't suitable for any rolling stock without some signalling work.
No, no point at all, which is why there aren't any such services running. As you say, there are multiple connections each hour with a walk between St Pancras and Euston (although not bring able to use Dangoor Walk at the moment is a slight nuisance).
Crossrail 2's mothballing probably makes it less likely.
There are plenty of equivalent venues in the North, including a Diggerland near Castleford.
The proposal for a cross river tram didn't receive much support, as has been discussed before.
I think the powers that be soon discovered that demand was minimal back then as well. My return from my first ever solo trip abroad was via the Dover WD - (?) Liverpool - but only because SNCF had caused me to miss a ferry connection (arriving at Calais behind 4 BB67000s, 3 of which were dead!). Don’t remember there being any difficulty about getting a bay of four to myself!
Perfect, a diggerland connection that allows people to visit both.
There's tripping and then, there's 'tripping'!
I am looking forward to the Morecambe to Par Eden Project connector. Possibly limited to a single voyager for platform length though.There's tripping and then, there's 'tripping'!
At least this is speculative discussion.
There was plenty of services to Brighton and Portsmouth to the north west/east but never realised there was trains to Bromley and beyond.
What do you mean by avoiding London. Does using West London Line count by avoiding London which happened in the past with the Brighton XC service going through East Croydon and Kensington Olympia?
As pointed out in previous threads, the website http://1s76.com/ is a useful resource on what did run.
Those are both useful, but miss out another key factor, the current services and the congestion they cause. Is there a map of all NR declared congested areas, and other hotspots? Many of these proposals go through Croydon or Lewisham, which might be on the map I'm thinking of.
www.networkrail.co.uk
They did go to Ramsgate according to a map from 1998 on Project Mapping.
With occasional Deltic haulage too.
