3301. In that case it would be down line going over the up line? --- Yes.
3302. In that short space then there would be two level crossings; you would have to have one at each of those two spurs? --- zYes.
3303. I want to follow out the southern one. I understand that you are providing for 20 lines in the Clearing House? ---Yes.
3304. Mr. Gattie said there would be now 16? --- There are 16 running tracks. The other four are what Mr. Gattie calls shuttle tracks for moving things about in the Clearing House, but they would be connected up with the fan.
3305 You made the two northern and the two southern yellow patches, or receivers, or whatever they are called --- fans --- distinct. Does that mean coming by one tube they would fan out into the one yellow and the others coming in by the other tube into the other yellow, or would they cross? --- They are entirely distinct ; but in the case of the northern tubes they are joined up where they superimpose.
3306. Is it your intention to appropriate the lines joined up by one yellow fan to one Company's traffic and the other yellow to the other Company's traffic? --- That would be a quest surely for the operators of the Clearing House to deal with as a matter of convenience.
3307. That is part of your design ; you simply put the tubes there and they must make the best use of them they can? --- It would be obviously convient to deal with the northern traffic on the western side of the Clearing House.
3308. Have you considered at all the traffic that is going to be brought in. Were you asked to provide for the Great Northern traffic, for the Midland traffic, and for the London and North Western traffic, of have you just put those spurs there that you think will be useful for those purposes? --- I have put the spurs that I consider approximate as closely as possible to an ideal scheme for dealing with the traffic.
3309. But when you get beyond the spur you are not (as it were) concerned with how the traffic fares. You have tapped the widened lines, and that traffic must come in by the widened lines, or it cannot come in at all? --- That is so but as I have pointed out in evidence, the widened lines will be required to carry 70 percent fewer trains.
3310, On the supposition that the pilot trips are done away with? --- Yes.
Comments
Post a Comment