I don't know if you've seen this thread:
I just found this document on the network rail website. https://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/South-West-Main-Line-Strategic-Study.pdf I have not had time to read it all yet but I thought others might be interested in it too. I think it might send me to sleep over the next...
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but the study that refers to (linked from the first post) includes discussion of the issues involved in stopping fast trains at Clapham Junction (section 6.2
I've now started to read it. Very interesting.
However, I note the following in the SWR consultation document that off-peak only one Portsmouth train will stop at Clapham Junction, this being the semi-fast service.
This is on page 31 and is the document referred to in the first post.
Before covid-19, two semi-fast services was stopping at Clapham Junction and 2 fast secures, didn't so why can't they stop there? On a Sunday the fast service currently stops at Clapham Junction.
Or will they vastly improve the connection at Woking, so you sont have to wait over 20 minutes for the next train to Clapham Junction, as one does currently in place of the x04 direct?
Don't tell me they are just going to introduce the emergency timetable, again, where you have a train from Guildford to London at roughly x35 and x49. The x49 being fast and the x35 being semi-fast.
I appreciate for many years trains don't stop at Clapham Junction but these days there are good connections. For example, getting onto the West London Line, never mind going to Croydon and other places in south London.
Why should someone have to go in and out of London, with the additional costs that involves, which is both monetary and time? Note I'm talking off-park here.