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Author Topic: Great Western Main Line electrification - ongoing discussion  (Read 1046888 times)
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« Reply #1935 on: August 18, 2016, 20:55:44 »


If you all want some bedtime reading -

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« Reply #1936 on: August 26, 2016, 12:52:39 »

Well I haven't been to or through Didcot for over a year now and this is how it looked yesterday (25 August 2016):


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« Reply #1937 on: August 26, 2016, 13:36:06 »

As well as on Platform 1 and 2 at Didcot Parkway there are also wires through Platform 4.
There also appears to be wires for the Down Relief from the Cow Lane Bridge towards Cholsey ( but I don't know how far) and there are also wires on all 3 tracks from Foxhall Road Bridge to Milton Junc.

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« Reply #1938 on: August 26, 2016, 19:16:34 »

The wire goes up quick once all the main steel, the small part steel with insulators and registration arms are in place.  If they have set the registration arms correctly there will be very little along track heights and staggers to do, the finessing will be at the overlaps
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« Reply #1939 on: August 26, 2016, 21:36:08 »

According to the annual report of the Great Western Society (GWS) there is going to be an EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) depot at Didcot.

Is this temporary until the line to Oxford is electrified or something more permanent?
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« Reply #1940 on: August 27, 2016, 07:25:57 »

Something more permanent I believe.  Long before the electrification delays it was determined several current stabling points, such as Oxford, would not be able to cope with the large increase in the fleet size, so Didcot was proposed as a small ancillary stabling point.  Likewise, I think the work currently going on between West Ealing and Hanwell is to provide additional stabling.
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« Reply #1941 on: August 27, 2016, 08:05:08 »

Where is the stabling point to be at Didcot? What with the GWS taking more space and the DBS» (Deutsch Bahn Schenker - UK (United Kingdom) website) facility there can't be much space left.
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« Reply #1942 on: August 27, 2016, 08:48:25 »

You might also find that the current restrictions on noise and movement in place at Oxford at night might affect things there as well.

Lots of old railway land sold off for housing, and then the complaints started about the nearby trains causing noise - surprize, surprize. One of the leaders of the campaign moved into property on the old Rewley Road site and then said she hadn't noticed the railway. Right or wrong, I don't know, but restrictions there are on movement of trains at night in the current sidings.
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« Reply #1943 on: August 27, 2016, 12:46:03 »

Isn't one of the purposes of a stabling point at Didcot being to run am peak extra EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) services to Paddington starting from Didcot?  In which case to avoid shunting backwards and forwards would it be better positioned west of the station in the Swindon direction?

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« Reply #1944 on: August 27, 2016, 12:54:43 »

Isn't one of the purposes of a stabling point at Didcot being to run am peak extra EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) services to Paddington starting from Didcot?  In which case to avoid shunting backwards and forwards would it be better positioned west of the station in the Swindon direction?

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There is a large rail connected site just to the west of Didcot West Curve on the route to Swindon.  Plenty of space there now. 
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« Reply #1945 on: August 29, 2016, 13:51:57 »

Isn't one of the purposes of a stabling point at Didcot being to run am peak extra EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) services to Paddington starting from Didcot?  In which case to avoid shunting backwards and forwards would it be better positioned west of the station in the Swindon direction?

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There is a large rail connected site just to the west of Didcot West Curve on the route to Swindon.  Plenty of space there now. 
Didcot Power Station?
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« Reply #1946 on: August 29, 2016, 16:23:41 »

Isn't one of the purposes of a stabling point at Didcot being to run am peak extra EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) services to Paddington starting from Didcot?  In which case to avoid shunting backwards and forwards would it be better positioned west of the station in the Swindon direction?

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There is a large rail connected site just to the west of Didcot West Curve on the route to Swindon.  Plenty of space there now. 
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« Reply #1947 on: August 31, 2016, 13:57:22 »

Training runs to Bristol?

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K97143/2016/08/31/advanced

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K97145/2016/09/01/advanced
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« Reply #1948 on: September 05, 2016, 14:24:51 »

387s definitely running to Hayes & Harlington from today

https://anonw.com/2016/09/05/a-low-key-launch-of-new-electric-trains/
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« Reply #1949 on: September 05, 2016, 15:09:42 »

387s definitely running to Hayes & Harlington from today

https://anonw.com/2016/09/05/a-low-key-launch-of-new-electric-trains/

Either that or bobm has done some superb photoshoping!
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=14927.0
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