No, it's just tinkering and wouldn't even be enough to cope with what the line currently has to deal with let alone the increased traffic from the Gatwic expansion, the increased traffic from the growing population, and the fact that we're still depending on Victorian engineering and Victorian...
No they weren't! The bottleneck is East Croydon and the lack of tracks; all they ever talked about was new trains, 'improved signalling' and changes to Redhill. On its own the Gatwick expansion would have made the problem worse, and our sole hope would have been that the Authorities might have...
More bad news coming after yesterday's knockback. When the Victorian railway tunnels collapse and there is no spare inch of road space left - then do you think we'll get some investment?