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Its not dysfunctional, it just suffers from a near monopoly in that any competition tends just to be bought up.

That is still under some discussion.

That doesn't work. You cannot fit a train in between International and New St. You'll struggle with New St to Wolves. You are adding another af Crewe and Stockport too. The interworking at New St with Bristol and Bournemouth does you no favours either.

That is an awful idea and would just push people on to other services. They only do it now as route rentention. The connectivity is there at Stafford.

I expect there will plenty who will if its priced right.

Its a money problem as well.

Why do they need to be non stop? A non stop path isn't always the best use of capacity either.

Lumo have got the paths for the Stirling service.

Its someone that has spent a load of their own time creating it, if anything they are asking this thread for feedback. Its not as though its a commercial thing that is going to appear at a station. Lighten up.

That isn't the problem. Its north of Barnt Green and north of New St is where you'll struggle. Remember that the New St Scotland is effectively in the old XC path.

XC would slash most of the routes on day 1.

Can't see Atherstone and Polesworth. You are missing the XC route via Solihull. You have a connection from HS2 to the Stone line. That isn't a connection.

The Leeds to Sheffield terminator arrives right before the Plymouth XC, or are you diverting the Leeds Nottingham? There is a slot between the Newcastle Reading and the Nottingham Birmingham at Derby, You cannot fit one between the southbound Plymouth and Cardiff though as you just get in a...

If XC could run 2tph to Leeds now, they would. Are you saying you now need another path for the Birmingham Nottingham?

Why all cuts? Just because a railway was built and closed, doesn't mean its useful now.