1) Its only single track in parts, could the tunnel be dual track to allow for future up gade or use by Overground services if in the future another route / Thameslink upgrade is used.
2) The direct route at Northolt / South Ruislip for a Heathrow spur will need a new waste transfer station built in South Harefield Ickenham first in order to ensure that there are no 'winter of discontent' scenes in west and North west london, is that allowed under section 106 planning in terms of future planning payments?
3) There is no provision as of yet for section 106 planning payments for a partial divert of the Central Line to Uxbridge and onto Heathrow at Ruislip Gardens using a remodelled Rusilip Gradens Depot track configuration and trains in tunnel after Ickenham to platforms under a park and ride orbital car park at hIllingdon station and then ontop Hayes End and Stockley Park, WEst Drayton and Heathrow.
4) Other rail links that could also help with this are St Albans tram train, Croxley Rail Link and a service from Chingford to Stratord regional station after the Olympics. All of which would deliver rail services from commuter suburbs to okaces of employment as they are opened rather than later on, which stabilises the economy and allows for sustainable economic growth.
Thursday 3 November 2011
Alternatives to HS2 stage 1
Reopening the Aylesbury Rugby Line for freight and dual tracking teh High Wycombe- Aylesbury line for freight and passenger trains, with gauge wide enough for subsequent upgrade to High Speed.
Similar fast passenger lines from Glasgow/Edinburgh in High Speed to Birmingham so that they meet half way
The problem with a scheme such as these two as they would take up an ever increasing and constant share of UK GDP for years longer than one High speed line built in stages with branches to Mid Wales and services to Holyhead and The East Coast ports for freight / produce.
If all of these are rejected then the danget is that instead a Toll Motorway is built on High Speed 2s route which is even more disruptive and will create a two speed manufacturing and industrial economy in Britain and hamper Irish economic growth.
Similar fast passenger lines from Glasgow/Edinburgh in High Speed to Birmingham so that they meet half way
The problem with a scheme such as these two as they would take up an ever increasing and constant share of UK GDP for years longer than one High speed line built in stages with branches to Mid Wales and services to Holyhead and The East Coast ports for freight / produce.
If all of these are rejected then the danget is that instead a Toll Motorway is built on High Speed 2s route which is even more disruptive and will create a two speed manufacturing and industrial economy in Britain and hamper Irish economic growth.
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