If Sheffield, Nottingham and Derby all get their own services then we are still looking at 13tph and 5 of those would be single units. Its easy to see why Euston expansion has been scaled down to 10 HS platforms. In fact it would probably already fit a 200m unit, the northern end is the same length as 4 which fits a 265m Pendolino while the missing bit at the south end isn't 65m long.ġtph Liverpool and Lancaster (split units) What would need sorting at Lancaster? P5 could be extended pretty cheaply to stick it in, there is space to the south. Unless the rationalisation would be looking to remove the nuisance south end bays which would probably mean the Ormskirk and Colne needing one or the other to reverse in. With regard to Preston, at almost any given time either P5 or P6 is unused, often both, and P7 is totally disused and could be reinstated and extended slightly (there appears to be room either or both ways), so that's an easy one to deal with. It's not a big place, but has a lot of students, many of whom are from the South East, and the London services are always well used there. There is also fairly large uproar about the potential of Lancaster losing its London service entirely, other than possibly a very slow one via Birmingham.
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