01-17-2018, 07:05 PM
(01-17-2018, 04:00 PM)KevinT Wrote: I like the point about outside the box thinking. If Cambridge is serious they should investigate re-laying track on the old right of way east of Water St. that heads south through Branchton and Harrisburg to intercept the double-track CN mainline from Brantford to Dundas. If you could lay that single track and then triple-track the CN portion to the Lakeshore line, you could run an all day hourly service. If Cambridge payed for the study and found it to be feasible, what would Metrolinx do with that information? I seem to recall that the Missing Link being negotiated with CN to un-bottleneck the Kitchener line came out of a municipally funded study...
The scheduling might be difficult - connecting it to the Lakeshore line would make the all-day trains a bit lopsided. Even now trains sit at Oshawa way longer than at Aldershot because that part of the trip is shorter. Would probably be easier to rehab the ex-CN line from Galt to Guelph and hook up with the Kitchener line. The track's already there, more or less. Threading it through the yard would be the biggest challenge; might require CP to revive the plans for a yard in Ayr.