DynamicSpirit
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Realistically, on a two-track railway that is supposed to take 18 trains per hour, every single signal is going to be a single point of failure... one train that can't move and the entire line seizes up - as is of course the case on much of the current network.
Having said that, even without the hypothetical addition of Bristol services, that track diagram looks intuitively to me like a nightmare for conflicting moves heading into and out of Curzon Street. But I'm not a railway expert - I guess this is the kind of thing where you trust that the designers have done lots of computer modelling to verify that the design is adequate?
Having said that, even without the hypothetical addition of Bristol services, that track diagram looks intuitively to me like a nightmare for conflicting moves heading into and out of Curzon Street. But I'm not a railway expert - I guess this is the kind of thing where you trust that the designers have done lots of computer modelling to verify that the design is adequate?