Great Western Coffee Shop

Network Rail has organised a number of public drop-in sessions to inform Bath residents of electrification work through the City.


http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/News-Releases/Public-meetings-start-on-Bath-rail-electrification-216e.aspx


Moderator note: Meeting dates added to calendar. bignosemac

Interestingly (perhaps not) looking at that website I saw the Network Rail logo properly for the first time. I had always just seen three triangles at a jaunty angle. My world is now changed forever. Oops, took me long enough!

An interesting meeting ... with pictures of lots of bridges and structures and very much staffed by the designers of the steelwork and bridges, and by First Great Western (at least those were the people I spoke too  ;) ).

Community Rail has an issue in that the two Network Rail folks who used to look after us have been move on as the posts have been removed, and all around the country there has been a move to establish local relationships. I understand that it's worked/working very well in some areas, but in others the liaison role is being foisted on unwilling people; somewhat relieved to have a contact name now (though he was not there tonight) and by reputation he's a good 'un.

Some readers here may not be aware of Bath blockade details for summer 2015 ... until now it has been described to me as 3 weeks Box Tunnel followed by 3 weeks Box Tunnel plus Bath Eastern approaches.  I understand this evening that it's been amended to 2 + 4 rather than 3 + 3, so probably late July for the "2" and all of August for the "4".   I'm getting myself fully "genned up" so that I can (a) make tuning requests to plans which already seem to have been made (b) prepare literature and marketing to spin the best light on it and (c) understand change risks so that we don't print / publicise one set of changes just to find that they're changed.

NR has issued two updates on the progress work being carried out during the July and August 2015 blockades:
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/Bath-TPOD-Newsletter-24-July.pdf
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/Newsletter-TPOD-week-2.pdf

How is the work progressing? I'm already thinking ahead for planning trips to check out the new trains!

As a side note:

The link in the first post is dead, highlighting why it's good practice to copy text as a quote.

That is just what I tend to do, when posting links to such items.  ;) :D ;D

The dates, and links to the newsletters, are in the relevant page on NR's site at
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/great-western-route-modernisation/banes/
(and may even be kept up to date there).

Both links stll work for me  ;)

I find it very difficult to quote text from a pdf document using my tablet. Shan't bother posting links again  >:(

Your links are fine. :)

It's the ones in the first post that's dead, pretty much leaving me unsure what exactly the original post was about other than guessing from the title.

It's the link to the Network Rail media centre announcement (http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/News-Releases/Public-meetings-start-on-Bath-rail-electrification-216e.aspx) quoted in the original post in this topic that is now dead - not either of yours, SandTEngineer.  :P