Busiest single track lines

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[stuving]

Posted here with an eye on the cost and benefit.   Would be very interesting to know how the costs are split between the loop, signalling, the new bridge, and perhaps other items not listed in this short piece.

I found a quote for the most recent TWAO^▸ (Transport and Works Act Order ), which is just for the six (or thereabouts) crossing closures, new bridge, and highway works - total £4.7M. I think most of the £60M is coming from the Port Company, so it's not accounted in the same way (though there was a ministerial order for a grander version of it earlier).

The trail start with this more detailed page. It has a link to information on the TWAO within the archive, where there is the usual comment about "future migration to the new website". Is that actually happening yet, or are they still using this archive as bit of overspill space with poor links to it?

[grahame]

I found a quote for the most recent TWAO^▸ (Transport and Works Act Order ), which is just for the six (or thereabouts) crossing closures, new bridge, and highway works - total £4.7M. I think most of the £60M is coming from the Port Company, so it's not accounted in the same way (though there was a ministerial order for a grander version of it earlier).

The trail start with this more detailed page. It has a link to information on the TWAO within the archive, where there is the usual comment about "future migration to the new website". Is that actually happening yet, or are they still using this archive as bit of overspill space with poor links to it?

The £4.7 million pounds - and the diagrams showing all the works in that figure - make must more sense.

The website - stating it was archived in January 2017 and "is not updated" then goes on to state

Please note: information in this section is continuing to be updated before future migration to the new website at www.networkrail.co.uk. Documents may take a long time to load.

and contains documents and references from December 2017.   This makes rather less sense and there's no way to tell how current or not the page is.   The link to that page is from a page which is undated - have't a clue it it's current as I write (28th August 2018)

[stuving]

The website - stating it was archived in January 2017 and "is not updated" then goes on to state

Please note: information in this section is continuing to be updated before future migration to the new website at www.networkrail.co.uk. Documents may take a long time to load.

and contains documents and references from December 2017.   This makes rather less sense and there's no way to tell how current or not the page is.   The link to that page is from a page which is undated - have't a clue it it's current as I write (28th August 2018)

If you have found this document set, it's current in the sense that it approved the aspects of the current work that need it. Mainly that's land acquisition - a new order was needed as the first one in 2008 lapsed in 2013 because they hadn't done anything.

There are changes: the twin track at Trimley is shorter and they have rethought some of the details of how to deal with the footpaths. They say the new track will only have trains waiting on it during disruption, not planned operation, but I'm not convinced. But even it is rare, it is still probably enough to force all the level crossings to be closed.

The original plan also included a new yard at Ipswich, which I suspect is the bulk of the money. It is not clear if that's going ahead, as the old order still works for that and if it's not public money they don't have to say. It may even have been done already - something was - though I'm not sure without hunting down the TWAOA documents.