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A busy Berkshire station could get an extra MILLION commuters each year once Crossrail opens, Network Rail has said.
Maidenhead station currently has three million passengers a year but the firm said this was likely to rise.
It said Crossrail's 10-coach trains would be much longer than current trains and carry 1,500 people.
The ^16bn rail link scheme is due to open in 2018 and will link Maidenhead with Essex, passing through London.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-19517436?

Good grief  :( .................... so glad I retire in 2019  ;D   Will need more car parking spaces in the area and lots of residents only parking in the Furze Platt area

2019 - not counting the days already are you?  ;D

889 more working days until I go, probably no more than 750 more times through the door after leave and whatever bunking off I can get away with. And I'm not doing any work for the last 12 months, either.

Where are these new passengers going to arrive from? Jupiter? How do they get to Maidenhead now? It has its charms, but it's hardly the Jewel of the Occident, so they can't be tourists.

The commuters will live in millions of new homes.
According to the government, the green belt is set to be bulldozed for more roads, homes and industries.
Planning laws are to be relaxed so people can add large extension to houses, concreting over gardens and green space.

Source?  ??? ::)

It's a known fact they want to in Maidenhead, I haven't however seen anything that says its been approved or will happen. There is even a NAG for this. :)

Just started my 37th on the train set and due to John Major no gold watch  >:(

Maidenhead is the Jewel of the Thames :)

It's the catchment area, folks might be willing to drive from as far as Bracknell to take advantage of the speed of the connectivity Crossrail will provided to the city compared with the snail pace of the SW lines and then the flakiness of The Drain, also folks my decide to drive into Maidenhead instead of Twyford because of Crossrail, and as always there is huge pressure on Maidenhead for more housing because of its already good rail and motorway links and proximity to Heathrow and London

Maidenhead currently has around 56,000 households. "Millions", ie at least 2 million, would involve enlarging Maidenhead to at least 35 times its current size. I bet no-one saw that coming, but think of the council tax!

Less of the hyperbole, please Btline. I've told you thousands of times.

You're not alone. I've requested the same gazillions of times.  ;)

Lest we not forget. Maidenhead's footfall is 3.6 million. That's not 3.6 million individuals using the station.

Does that assume every passenger has two feet?

I'll get my anorak.    ;D

From the Cambridge Dictionary online:-

"specialized the number of people who go into a shop or business in a particular period of time
Footfall is an important indicator of how successful a company's advertising is at bringing people into its shops."

So exactly what is it? Passengers - trainspotters?   ???

How many additional passengers will Crossrail generate then, alongside these 1 million commuters...  ::)

Not hyperbole. ;)
It's been in the new non stop for the last couple of days.

Most recent: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenpolitics/planning/9516335/David-Cameron-in-new-assault-on-green-belt-planning-rules.html

The ConDem government are ConDemming the greenbelt by relaxing planning rules. :'(

Brain in gear - journeys ........... whoops. Still a lot.

With Crossrail I would suggest anyone living to the east side of Maidenhead or up the Wye valley would be better off coming to Taplow when Crossrail arrives. Although how much longer our carparking could cope is another matter.

As for Maidenhead a  a million more commuters is roughly 5000 a day given 200 working days less if we all work a six day week. Who's ready to join a bring back slavery campaign!

That's a lot of cars to park or buses to run or you'll have some very fit people cycling/walking  in from the outskirts and clogging the trains with their bikes!.

And there's enough of them already, clagging up the gangways..... :o