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Re: Kings Norton Terminating Trains

On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:01:59 -0800 (PST) someone who may be
allanbonnetracy <allanbonnetracy@ireland.com> wrote this:-

>I’m all for flexibility and rational thinking but, in this case,
>electrification of the fast lines would have been little used and the
>lack of it must have so very rarely compromised reliability of what
>has proven to be a pretty reliable service.

IIRC the whole of the old London St Pancras was electrified, despite
only electric suburban trains using it. I wonder if some platforms
ever saw an electric train in service?

Was this a mistake? I don't think so. The mistake was not wiring the
line from Bedford to Sheffield (or better still Doncaster/York).

>Remember also, those fast lines don’t have platform access anymore,
>either, so it wouldn’t have just been the cost of wires to consider.

There was and is no reason why access to those platforms could not
be retained for emergency use. It was simply a matter of bean
counting.



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