Charing Cross currently has six platforms to deal with 16 to 20 tph; I'm guessing it couldn't really deal with any more
Charing Cross can deal with 28tph each way and has done in the recent past.
Charing Cross currently has six platforms to deal with 16 to 20 tph; I'm guessing it couldn't really deal with any more
How many miles of track could you electrify for £5bn?
Charing Cross currently has six platforms to deal with 16 to 20 tph; I'm guessing it couldn't really deal with any more without either more platforms or through platforms to somewhere, unless you're advocating terminating some Southeastern services at London Bridge in place of Croydon services? (I know Fenchurch Street has a similar peak frequency with four platforms, but has a less complicated network to deal with.)
This why there should be a like button!If using the GWML as an example, probably just under a mile. ( That not finished at the end, due to the price going up).
Morecambe- Grange isnt far and would be one hell of a short cut. Do your barrage over the river Kent. But you would stop the Kent Bore...Liverpool - Southport - Lytham - Blackpool - Fleetwood - Heysham - Barrow - linking into an improved Cumbria coastal route to Carlisle.
Links up the isolated coastal towns to Liverpool.
Additionally you could integrate the line with tidal barriers across the Ribble, Fleetwood - Heysham - Barrow, and Barrow - Millom. Could even be worth extending across the Solway as well linking in Kirkcudbright and Stranraer with another tidal barrage
All that available green energy currently untapped!
I'd have a Humber loop - two crossings, one at Scunny, one at Hull.It certainly shows that tunneling is possible under the humber and gives an idea of the costs. Going off that tunnel, a scheme under £500 million could be possible.
The humber bridge isn't a bad piece of infrastructure but it doesn't connect Grimsby to Hull particularly well. The public transport connections are absolutely terrible. A journey time of 90 mins is fairly common between Grimsby and Hull. When you consider that integration in health and education between the areas, a 90 minute public transport journey time simply isn't good enough.