Quote:
Originally Posted by Nexis4Jersey
All New England Routes will be electrified down the road...and round trips increased to 12 a day... The line will most likely be double tracked at least up to the Maine border to support future New Hampshire Regional Rail. In Maine you just need more sidlings unless they were to go with thier proposed Regional Rail Network around Portland which requires Double tracking.
|
12 round trips is like one train an hour. Single track can handle that. Headways will have to decrease to less than 20 minutes (three round trips per hour) before double tracking is required, At three round trips an hour, that's more than 36 round trips per day (assuming train operations last longer than 12 hours).
I'm sorry, but I don't believe 12 round trips a day isn't, by a third, enough traffic to warrant electrifying the corridor.