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Journey by Journey / Transport for London / Re: are IET passed to travel through the Elizabeth line route?
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on: December 18, 2023, 15:06:21
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It wasn’t that long ago there was a through service from Basingstoke to East Anglia.
Indeed. If a service is infrequent, slow, unreliable, not marketed and misses out central London it's going to be tough for it to succeed. I understand this service had many if not all of those issues. It would also never be suggested nowadays, given the vastly increased overground frequencies. When they first tried it the NLL was practically an unknown backwater… |
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Journey by Journey / South Western services / Re: Worn-out tracks cause railway line closure
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on: November 26, 2023, 19:05:53
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From the BBC» Worn-out tracks cause railway line closure
Part of a railway line has been closed so worn-out tracks can be replaced.
The line between Salisbury in Wiltshire and Yeovil in Somerset was shut on Friday night and will not reopen for 16 days, while 5,699ft (1,737m) of track is changed.
Rail replacement bus services will be in place for customers travelling to and from Tisbury, Gillingham, Sherborne and Templecombe.
Network Rail said the route would reopen on 11 December.
Interesting choice of BBC headline - true enough but feels overdramatic for routine engineering Probably based on a Network Rail press release - where they always seem to be embarrassed to use the term “preventive maintenance”. Paul |
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All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Plessey Viaduct parapet collapse 8/10/2023
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on: November 06, 2023, 16:29:16
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Thanks for the link. That was a quick job. NR» must have been pleased that the OHLE wasn't involved too.
Mark
More by luck than design, I suspect? I still wonder how many other unstable parapets they’d find if they did a serious search. Will the majority of this viaduct, (the other bits that didn’t fail) have been re-assessed? I read somewhere that minor failures, (eg at Nine Elms), became much longer than the initial problem because the guardrails acted in such a way as to pull adjacent sections down, in a sort of domino effect. Maybe guardrails shouldn’t be continuous over such long lengths? |
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Signalled wrong road
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on: October 31, 2023, 09:44:12
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Given that the B&H▸ / Athelney route appears to be signalled with a 'feather' should the previous signal not have been displaying a flashing yellow aspect?
AIUI▸ there’s no requirement as the speed differential is only 10 mph. An aerial view suggests the points are high speed for both routes, ie neither route is actually ‘straight through’, but the B&H is clearly becoming a curve. Paul |
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Journey by Journey / Cross Country services / Re: Cardiff to Edinburgh - open access proposal
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on: October 24, 2023, 22:02:45
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Wasn't the TPE▸ cut due to lack of staff not lack of paths?
There’s overlapping reasons, I think. AFAICT▸ a few years ago TPE asked for 2 tph to Newcastle, and then tried to extend one of them to Edinburgh, but the second train and the extension were not in their ITT▸ . Later on NR» worked out the second TPE service York to Newcastle was in the way of the higher priority 3rd Newcastle to Kings Cross service every hour. This latter service had already been agreed with successive ECML▸ operators. There’s still a few TPE Edinburgh to Berwick or Newcastle extras that are there to serve Reston, I’m not sure of their long term position. TPE don’t really seem the appropriate operator for that, but who else would be, maybe it should be Scotrail. Paul |
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) going on, the distance from foreground to background in the first photo is about 4 km.
