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The place seemingly apparent is adjacent to the North London Line on Freight Lane where the Tarmac Concrete Plant is. Camden Accessible Travel Solutions have a depot there which could be expendable. Presumably the need for a concrete plant will diminish once construction in the area is...

The remodelling of the lines between Selhurst and Coulsdon which was completed in 1983 and resignalling will certainly have helped reduce the timing.

While they could be, everything posted before on this forum suggests that they won't be.

I do wonder whether it was first and foremost a 'fast Croydon-Brighton link' or just about giving East Croydon a higher frequency to Victoria. I can't see any objective reason for such a service to be restored. It was historically born from a non-stop Brighton to Victoria offering, and...

57305 is also available, as it has been working stock moves, and 57310 might potentially be ready soon as well.

HS1 was needed to reduce journey times from London to Paris and Brussels to match the infrastructure on the other side of the Channel, and increase the share of the market using the railway. Removing European allowed some increase in 'domestic' services on the conventional railway. It is...

Travelling all the way with one operator is often cheaper for a through journey, because the through tickets may not be available at the lowest price on the second operator.

I agree with you. However, the upshot is that the announcement of funding for Bakerloo stock doesn't need to be made now, it can wait until the end of 2026.

Postings elsewhere suggest a GBRf 57/3.

How bad would it be to award a contract to the Goole factory at the same time that the debate about Derby is still going on? Whilst it is apparent that TfL is likely to go back to Siemens for the Bakerloo stock, it would be someone rubbing the noses of Derby workers in the sand if it were...

Haven't there been posts in the past that the Hitachi units can only be built with an odd number of carriages? Does a 10-car 80x fit in the depot, as in can two 5-cars receive attention on one depot road?

On the west side they often now run round as pairs.

The other potential plan is to order more centre cars for the 701s to make the fleet stretch to both SWR and Southeastern. By converting the 5 coach units into 8 coach units it could potentially allow them to make inroads into Networkers, and then a further build could be specified to be...

That isn't going to work, as they wouldn't fit in the platforms, sidings or depots. A plan to build 22 720s as 10 car units was abandoned and the units delivered as 5 car units because the depots couldn't accommodate them. 5 car units can be doubled up. Anything longer can't.

Plus the issue they aren't built in Derby, Newport, Newton Aycliffe or Goole.