 How is this raising capacity?
Vernon wrote:
> I am trying to piece together the daytime service frequencies post-Little
> Bang.
>
> I assuming Altrincham and Bury will retain their every 6 minutes service.
>
> Apparently Eccles will stay at every 12 minutes. mediacity:uk (ugh!) will
> also have a 12 minute frequency, but these trams will terminate in a new bay
> platform at Cornbrook. I would like to see a diagram of the layout at this
> station.
This Mediacity - Cornbrook shuttle idea seems ridiculous to me. Why
don't they at least run to G-Mex and turn round at the crossover there?
Or build a new crossover and bay, for which there is plenty of room.
This would provide a main line interchange. The long-term idea before
the BBC came along was for Oldham line cars to run through Manchester to
the existing city-facing bay at Cornbrook, so when Oldham happens its
trams could run through to mediacity.
Like you, I cannot see how a bay platform can be fitted in at
the other end of Cornbrook. The lift and stairs access
is at that end of the island platform, and beyond the platform
the line slopes off imemediately to get under the Altrincham line.
> All this would mean 60 trams per hour entering the triangle at Piccadilly
> Gardens, with its many conflicting movements. Is this maximum capacity for
> Metrolink with a single cross-city line?
It has the makings of a fiasco which will make the "Piccadilly
scissors-crossover farce" pale into insignificance.
Charlie |