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Re:Dugout Loop by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday August 16, 2018 @04:57AM (#17773097)
> There can't actually be 2 crossrail trains per minute surely?

Official docs actually say "A train every two and a half minutes at peak time through central London ... trains accommodating up to 1,500 passengers"

http://www.crossrail.co.uk/route/

So it looks like no. It will actually take crossrail 5 minutes or more to exceed that daily capacity of Dugout loop.

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Re:Dugout Loop by tigershark on Thursday August 16, 2018 @05:41AM (#17773239)
You are right I didn’t remember correctly. Still 5 minutes to exceed the daily capacity of this loop is a quite good result I think.
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Re:Dugout Loop by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday August 16, 2018 @08:22AM (#17773985)
I would say that crossrail will be much higher capacity than that, since it aims to have 41 stations and London is a big city, so there is potential for the same train to carry one group from Station A to Station D, someone else from station C to Station G, another group to replace the first from station D to station K, etc. Large networks are just more useful than ones with 2 nodes.
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