The Anonymous Widower

Extend Crossrail To Southend Airport

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article in the Southend Echo.

This is the first two paragraphs.

Southend Airport’s boss has suggested that high-speed Crossrail trains should be extended to the airport to provide a faster service for travellers to and from London.

Glyn Jones, chief executive of Stobart Aviation, suggested to transport secretary Chris Grayling that the £16billion rail project from Heathrow Airport should be extended to Southend.

I like this idea and I wrote about it in Crossrail Tests Its Trains In Southend, where I finished the post like this.

I have come to these conclusions about services between Liverpool Street and Southend Victoria stations..

• A Fast Greater Anglia express service could probably achieve a sub-fifty minute time.
• A Slow Crossrail service, could probably do the trip in an hour.
• Better interchange with Crouch Valley Line and Great Easstern Main Line services would be achieved.
• Four Fast and four Slow services in each hour is possible.

My choice for the Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria service would be as follows.

• Four trains per hour – Crossrail Class 345 trains – Stopping at all stations.
• Four trains per hour – Greater Anglia Class 745 trains – Stopping at Southend Airport, Billericay, Shenfield and Stratford.

Or the simple option of just running the four Crossrail trains.

February 10, 2018 - Posted by AnonW | Travel | CrossRail, Greater Anglia, Southend Airport