Waterloo Upgrade August 2017 – Virginia Water Station
I took these pictures at Virginia Water station.
The station was updated a few years ago, but the platforms have been lengthened to twelve-car platforms, as part of the August 2017 upgrade.
If the station has a problem, it is that the Waterloo to Reading Line and the Chertsey Branch, split on the Waterloo side of the station, so it would be impossible to have a ten-car train formed of two five-car units arrive in the station, with one departing on each line.
I suppose they could always split at Egham station, which has recently been updated with twelve-car platforms.
These two half-hourly services.
- Waterloo to Guildford via Aldershot
- Waterloo to Chertsey
Could be run by five-car trains, which ran as a ten-car train to Egham.
- Both services would move from two to four trains per hour.
- No extra train paths would be needed.
If the Class 707 trains can’t run a service like this, they’re history.
This Google Map shows Virginia Water station
Note that the scar of a chord that used to connect the Reading and Cherstey Lines can be seen South of the station.
Would it have any possibilities?
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