I said I wish the great central railway had never closed

johncas · Post by **johncas** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 8:34 pm

will now it is being re-opened Chilton Trains will run form London Marleyboun to Leicester this time London Road via a link to the Leic's to Birmingham line so they will be a choice of 2 train operators form Leicester to London MML and Chilton trains i wonder which service will be quicker

phat2003uk · Post by **phat2003uk** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 9:41 pm

what are you blabbering about ?

TrainSimminNick · Post by **TrainSimminNick** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 9:49 pm

Let me transfer it into english for you :

"I wish the Great central railway never closed. if I didn't who would run it ? Would it be Chiltern who run the stretch from London Marlyebone to Aylesbury or Central Trains ? If they were I wonder if journey times would be quicker then those on the Midland Mainline"

Nick's Responce

The Great central should have never closed, infact they want to re open it check http://www.central-railway.co.uk I would think a new company would run it as the "Chiltern" franchise would be to Birmingham, Worcester etc. I would think journey times would be around the same maybe GCR slower as the route is more "Cross-Country" say from Leicester - Rugby then to London !

Hope the questions are answered

Nick

johncas · Post by **johncas** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 2:15 pm

Chilton trains are re-opening this route the old great central railway from quentin road to Leiceater it was on their website nothing to do with central railway but is is cirtenly being re-opaned

TrainSimminNick · Post by **TrainSimminNick** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 3:16 pm

You have read it wrong, it says they hope the SRA aprove there idea to open the Great Central to the M1 / M6. Though the SRA are low on money atm, the WCML upgrade cost about Â£220,000,000 !

doownyl · Post by **doownyl** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 3:42 pm

TrainSimminNick wrote:the WCML upgrade cost about Â£220,000,000 !

A little bit more than that, I'm afraid - when it is finished, it will almost certainly have cost well over Â£10,000,000,000!!

johncas · Post by **johncas** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 4:07 pm

Yes but I was told they will also run to Leicester and another platform will be built why run up to the M1\M6 when there is no city there and nothing mutch to run to inless you want to build a big park and ride it was in the Leicester Mercury but they will run up to Leicester via a link to the Leicester to Birmingham line near south wigston