Of the new stations the only one to be officially opened was University which the then Secretary of State for Transport William Rodgers MP formally opened on 8 May There is a plaque on platform 2 marking this occasion.
Services were extended to Redditch in , initially on an hourly frequency, but the service proved popular, and was eventually increased to half hourly.
The route was electrified between and 6 June The decision to electrify was made on 7 February by the then Transport Minister Cecil Parkinson during the campaign for a by-election in the Mid Staffordshire constituency. Redditch, Alvechurch, Aston and Blake Street stations were rebuilt at this time.
A number of other stations including Barnt Green were extensively modified to accommodate the new longer electric trains. A new fleet of Class Electric Multiple Units were introduced to work the electrified line, and replace the elderly diesels. For many years, passenger services on the line were worked by elderly Class , , , , and diesel multiple units.
By the early s these units were becoming increasingly unreliable, and new Class electrical multiple units were ordered for the electrification of the route. By the last of the old trains had been withdrawn.
Current daytime service levels are: [6]. The southern half of the Cross-City line also forms part of the Cross Country Route , and some longer distance services stop at University station , including CrossCountry trains to Cardiff and London Midland service to Hereford. The line between Barnt Green and Redditch is currently single track , which restricts the service to two trains per hour. There are plans for the introduction of a passing loop at Alvechurch to allow the service to be increased to three trains per hour.
Electrification will also be extended from Barnt Green to Bromsgrove station , which will be added as a southern terminus.
These changes will allow three trains per hour to run to both Redditch and Bromsgrove. There are long-standing proposals for improvements to the line including the re-opening of a short spur south of Longbridge to Rubery and Frankley [9] and the re-introduction of local trains on the Camp Hill Line [10] effectively a loop between Birmingham New Street and King's Norton. So-called safeguarding activity to protect the route from other development work will be funded by the state, holding out some hope that the line could be revived.
The transport authority must also enter into talks with the government on the scope of a study of driver-less trains, including the membership of a review panel and the appointment of consultants. Johnson pressed for automated Tube services when he himself was mayor, but Khan has been lukewarm on the idea, citing the cost and complexity. While the Tube and Overground networks saw some return of traffic over the summer, the government began encouraging people to work from home again in September and will impose a second lockdown on Thursday.
For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg. Load Error. Moreover, the central London stations in business and retail areas will remove the need for many passengers to transfer onto other modes at all. The use of the route for freight trains had been envisaged, but this does not form part of the business case to build the line. The Freight on Rail partnership of rail freight operators, Rail Freight Group, Network Rail, the transport trade unions and Transport have expressed concerns about the potential track restrictions that Crossrail could cause to the main lines at either end of the route which carry high levels of freight.
A major change to the plan was the decision not to run services through to the new station being built at Ebbsfleet, Kent, for High Speed 1, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
The main difficulty involved guaranteeing service reliability along the congested North Kent Line. Instead, trains will terminate at Abbey Wood on its south eastern section. A new cross-platform interchange will be built at Abbey Wood to ensure a smooth connection for passengers wishing to travel to and from North Kent, with a maximum five-minute wait for a Crossrail train during peak hours.
The heart of the project is the construction of a new 21km 12 mile tunnelled route across London, including the branch of the eastern end to Shenfield and Abbey Wood. Crossrail will, for the first time, allow existing suburban east-west rail services to run through central London. There were earlier intentions for other lines to be promoted under the Crossrail identity, but these have now all been shelved in favour of promoting only the route described here.
For through running, the Great Western main line west of Heathrow Airport Junction would need electrification as far as Maidenhead, the proposed western limit of Crossrail operations. Many existing stations would need platform lengthening to accommodate the new trains. Crossrail will be a major engineering exercise needing a wide range of multidisciplinary skills. Substantial pre-planning and design work has been carried out to demonstrate that the scheme is technically feasible, and can be built on time and on budget.
Most of the spoil earth removed from the tunnels will be removed from four portal sites, keeping local disruption to a minimum. More than 8, jobs are envisaged as being needed to create the infrastructure.
Construction will incorporate the latest elements of proven best practice in order to minimise ground-borne noise and vibration. The extensive underground infrastructure and location of existing deep building foundations have determined the route alignment, which was safeguarded 12 years ago.
Recent practice indicates the likelihood of a rolling stock build-and-maintain operation for a specified duration. The Crossrail fleet will comprise of purpose-built, energy-efficient, high-performance trains, possibly twin five-car dual voltage sets using overhead lines and third rail systems; their performance will be capable of delivering a train approximately every two minutes in the central London area.
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