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Originally Posted by electricron
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.
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Your right 12 trips isn't but most of the corridor is shared with commuter rail traffic up to 70 trips a day in MA , and down the road up to 45 in NH and maybe Portland's Regional rail system so that warrants electrification. There also seems to be a push to build the North - South Tunnel which means full or half Electrification of the MBTA network and the Downeaster would likely be replaced with the Regional.