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15 West Anglia Main Line and branches continued<br />

<strong>The</strong>se are the route improvements we plan to deliver<br />

CAP<strong>AC</strong>ITY CHANGES TO MEET FRANCHISING DIRECTOR, PTE AND CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS AND DELIVER ROUTE VISION<br />

LOCATION PROPOSED SOLUTION YEAR REF<br />

West Anglia Main Line Route upgrade 2001–06<br />

Stansted Airport Increasing tunnel from one to two tracks 2006<br />

CAPABILITY CHANGES TO <strong>AC</strong>HIEVE ROUTE VISION<br />

JOURNEY TIMES km STOPS CURRENT POSITION 2001 POSITION SUSTAINING THE ROUTE <strong>AC</strong>HIEVING ROUTE VISION<br />

London Liverpool Street–Stansted 60 2 55mph (41min) No change No change No change<br />

London Liverpool Street–Cambridge 90 6 48mph (1hr 10min) No change No change No change<br />

London Liverpool Street–King’s Lynn 156 12 49mph (1hr 59min) No change No change No change<br />

London King’s Cross–Cambridge 93 1 71mph (49min) 75mph (47min) No change No change<br />

London King’s Cross–King’s Lynn 159 7 63mph (1hr 34min) 65mph (1hr 32min) No change No change<br />

LINESPEEDS (km of track)<br />

Up to 35mph 39 39 39 39<br />

40–75mph 445 428 428 428<br />

80–105mph 224 241 241 241<br />

110–125mph 0 0 0 0<br />

Over 125mph 0 0 0 0<br />

TOTAL 708 708 708 708<br />

GAUGE (km of route)<br />

W6A 380 380 380 380<br />

W7 335 335 335 335<br />

W8 335 335 335 335<br />

W9 46 46 46 46<br />

W10 0 0 0 46<br />

AXLE WEIGHT (km of track)<br />

Up to 20.3 tonnes 17 17 17 17<br />

20.4 tonnes to 23.4 tonnes 691 691 691 691<br />

23.5 tonnes to 25.4 tonnes 0 0 0 0<br />

TOTAL 708 708 708 708<br />

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