matacaster
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But that capacity is very cheap - rolling stock, SDO and the odd extended platform. For instance, XC could have a nice new fleet of 7 or 8-car Class 80x for a fraction of the cost of HS2.
Similarly, for Northern, get those 2-car 195s extended to 3 and the 3s to 4.
They should of course do both.
I agree entirely, but they haven't done it have they. I don't think there has
ever been sufficient capacity since class 47 +7or 8 coaches. If it was London, they'd have done it years ago. The new northern fleet of 195s does not address capacity as far as I can see. That decision-making is London centric is unarguable. Mps of all colours may suffer some congestion getting from their local flats, but those out in the sticks tend to travel directly to London and likely don't travel much of the rest of the network. This means they don't put much pressure on to fix things. It's not clear to me why the traditional northern approach of supplying short trains and leaving some people on the platforms doesn't apply to Milton Keynes.
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