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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-67891067A new, faster train service between Sheffield and London could be launched in the second half of next year. Transport company FirstGroup plans to operate two daily return trips from Sheffield to London King's Cross via Retford, Worksop and Woodhouse. It is part of its Hull Trains business, and would create competition for East Midlands Railway ( EMR» ). (Continues)
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« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2024, 09:54:10 » |
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The BBC» article's done a bit of a copy and paste on the intermediate stations served, Woodhouse being close to Sheffield and the DM having plonked it down in North London.
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« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2024, 12:01:46 » |
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An interesting proposal. Worksop is certainly large enough to warrant a better service. Though they will do well to reduce the journey time of the current service from Sheffield to St. Pancras by more than a few minutes.
Another station joining the small list that would have departures to London departing from opposite directions…Oxford, Exeter St. Davids and Edinburgh Waverley being others (are there any more?).
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« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2024, 12:13:42 » |
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An interesting proposal. Worksop is certainly large enough to warrant a better service. Though they will do well to reduce the journey time of the current service from Sheffield to St. Pancras by more than a few minutes.
Another station joining the small list that would have departures to London departing from opposite directions…Oxford, Exeter St. Davids and Edinburgh Waverley being others (are there any more?).
Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate. Dover Priory. Cosham, Portchester, Fareham. |
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« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2024, 12:23:24 » |
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Another station joining the small list that would have departures to London departing from opposite directions…Oxford, Exeter St. Davids and Edinburgh Waverley being others (are there any more?).
I love a challenge .... Teddington, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Slade Green, Barnhurst |
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« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2024, 13:59:32 » |
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Another station joining the small list that would have departures to London departing from opposite directions…Oxford, Exeter St. Davids and Edinburgh Waverley being others (are there any more?).
I love a challenge .... Teddington, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Slade Green, Barnhurst Yeovil Pen Mill |
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« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2024, 14:01:30 » |
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On a smaller scale, and no longer applicable since its transfer to the Overground: all the intermediate stations on the South London Line, with its early overhead electrification and latterly its 2-EPBs shuttling between London Bridge and Victoria.
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« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2024, 14:37:16 » |
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On a smaller scale, and no longer applicable since its transfer to the Overground: all the intermediate stations on the South London Line, with its early overhead electrification and latterly its 2-EPBs shuttling between London Bridge and Victoria.
Yep, I had wondered about Nunhead and Peckham Rye - however, isn't the line physically broken as well at Battersea Park now? |
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« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2024, 16:10:41 » |
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An interesting proposal. Worksop is certainly large enough to warrant a better service. Though they will do well to reduce the journey time of the current service from Sheffield to St. Pancras by more than a few minutes.
Another station joining the small list that would have departures to London departing from opposite directions…Oxford, Exeter St. Davids and Edinburgh Waverley being others (are there any more?).
Ramsgate. Before reisignalling it used to have 2 UP lines signalled in opposite directions London Victoria in one direction and London Charing Cross in the other |
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« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2024, 16:36:26 » |
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Haymarket and Leicester are two more examples.
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« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2024, 17:03:53 » |
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Not forgetting Westbury
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« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2024, 18:30:02 » |
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...or indeed (if you stretch opposite to mean "different") - Reading!
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brooklea
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« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2024, 19:01:31 » |
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...or indeed (if you stretch opposite to mean "different") - Reading!
Too big a ‘stretch’ for my OCD, that one  I will add Sunderland to the list. |
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« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2024, 20:37:44 » |
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Quote from: PrestburyRoad on Today at 02:01:30 pm
On a smaller scale, and no longer applicable since its transfer to the Overground: all the intermediate stations on the South London Line, with its early overhead electrification and latterly its 2-EPBs shuttling between London Bridge and Victoria.
Yep, I had wondered about Nunhead and Peckham Rye - however, isn't the line physically broken as well at Battersea Park now? Yes - I believe that that route through into Victoria is now broken, and one of the former South London Line platforms at Battersea Park is now disused and its track has been disconnected. |
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« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2024, 21:23:10 » |
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On a smaller scale, and no longer applicable since its transfer to the Overground: all the intermediate stations on the South London Line, with its early overhead electrification and latterly its 2-EPBs shuttling between London Bridge and Victoria.
If we're doing "no longer applicable"... Charlbury, Kingham, Moreton-in-Marsh, Evesham, Worcester Shrub Hill. (There was a 1980s Saturday service that ran Paddington-Oxford-Worcester-Birmingham-Banbury-Oxford-Paddington, and another the other way round.) |
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