YourMum666
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With the Goldborne link and phase 2 being effectively canned, how will handsacre affect capacity around the Birmingham area, and what does this mean for general capacity on the west coast mainline?
Means nothing for Birmingham, screws up Colwich and Stafford.With the Goldborne link and phase 2 being effectively canned, how will handsacre affect capacity around the Birmingham area, and what does this mean for general capacity on the west coast mainline?
Huge uplift in capacity for commuters into Euston, but all those extra trains will only be able to run south of Litchfield.With the Goldborne link and phase 2 being effectively canned, how will handsacre affect capacity around the Birmingham area, and what does this mean for general capacity on the west coast mainline?
HS2 couldn't have done anything at Colwich anyway, its not their network and they couldn't cross fund NR enhancements. Crewe is a case in point (now probably about to die as well), it was a NR renewal job that facilitated HS2.All long-distance traffic on six tracks gets crammed into a single flat junction at Colwich, which will become a massive bottleneck.
The design of Handsacre missed the opportunity to incorporate grade separation of the flows to Stoke and to Stafford, which would have made a huge difference at Colwich.