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25 Chiltern lines 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 />

Princes Risborough An additional platform is being provided by Chiltern <strong>Railways</strong> to provide extra capacity within the station, 1999<br />

thereby removing current capacity constraints<br />

Bicester–Aynho Junction Further growth in train paths is unlikely to be accommodated without track doubling of this critical 1998<br />

single-line section. At present our customers have no plans for further growth over this section of route<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 Marylebone–Aylesbury 61 3 47mph (49min) No change No change No change<br />

London Marylebone–Princes Risborough 58 1 54mph (40min) No change No change No change<br />

London Marylebone–Banbury 109 0 65mph (1hr 03min) No change No change No change<br />

Princes Risborough–Aylesbury 12 0 32mph (14min) No change No change No change<br />

LINESPEEDS (km of track)<br />

Up to 35mph 15 15 15 15<br />

40–75mph 247 247 247 247<br />

80–105mph 60 60 60 60<br />

110–125mph 0 0 0 0<br />

Over 125mph 0 0 0 0<br />

TOTAL 322 322 322 322<br />

GAUGE (km of route)<br />

W6A 168 168 168 168<br />

W7 107 107 107 107<br />

W8 107 107 107 107<br />

W9 0 0 0 0<br />

W10 0 0 0 0<br />

AXLE WEIGHT (km of track)<br />

Up to 20.3 tonnes 0 0 0 0<br />

20.4 tonnes to 23.4 tonnes 62 62 62 62<br />

23.5 tonnes to 25.4 tonnes 260 260 260 260<br />

TOTAL 322 322 322 322<br />

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