Re: Chiltern to Oxford revisited

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:48:19 -0700 (PDT), TheOneKEA
<theonekea@gmail.com> wrote:


>> Room has deliberately been left at Denham for a bidirectional fast
>> line. The structural changes at Gerrards Cross would not be that
>> enormous - only slightly more complicated that what had already been
>> done at Haddenham. Ditto Princes Risborough.
>>
>> RPM
>
>There is also the fact that all that would be needed for a four-track
>railway through Gerrards Cross again is either (a) a new double-decker
>car park or (b) an arrangement to allow rail pax to park in the Tesco
>parking lot. Historians will know that the current arrangement at
>Gerrards Cross was put in place primarily to allow the car park to be
>expanded.
>
True.

>Risborough is even easier, as the platform space occupying the down
>platform loop consists mostly of a raised surface anchored to piles
>driven into the formation. The bridge spanning the formation is of
>sufficient width to accommodate all four tracks; if the money can be
>found to repair the original down platform (possibly with part of the
>funds that the C&PRR has?) then a four-track railway can be installed
>here too.
>
>High Wycombe is the easiest of all - just remove the OPO monitors and
>reinstate the through lines.


Guy Gorton
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