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« Reply #30 on: August 31, 2010, 20:39:29 » |
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All three lines in the station will be reversibly signalled but the Down Main will only be for Up terminating trains to the platform (However, trains will be able to shunt out from there to a 'Limit of Shunt' signal on the Down Main approaching from the South). The use of the terminology is only for line identification purposes and is used to define the predominate direction of traffic. This is irrelevant for operational and signalling purposes.
If I get some time I will do a sketch of the new layout and signalling.
Look forward to seeing it.  Meanwhile Chiltern are consulting on their December 2010 timetable by which time the new platforms at Birmingham Moor Street will be in use. Fastest journey from Marylebone to Moor Street appears to be 109 minutes under this timetable (the 16:00). http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/news/timetable-consultation-proposed-december-2010-timetable |
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« Reply #31 on: September 15, 2010, 19:57:23 » |
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« Reply #32 on: October 08, 2010, 14:44:50 » |
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Bicester North's repositioned platform is now open, barely two months after work started. Quick work! Here's some comparison images I took from 19th August and 6th October - same time of day, weather rather different! From the footbridge looking towards London (4x zoom): From the footbridge looking towards London (no zoom): From the footbridge looking towards Banbury: From the south end of the down platform looking towards Banbury: As you can see, the new platform and track alignment have been completed, with work still taking place to the old platform. Final bits and bobs need to still be done including the fitment of DOO▸ monitors/mirrors as all trains on the new platform are currently being dispatched by a member of staff on the platform. Plenty of track has been dropped at Princes Risborough ready for the reinstatement of the through line there. |
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To view my GWML▸ Electrification cab video 'before and after' video comparison, as well as other videos of the new layout at Reading and 'before and after' comparisons of the Cotswold Line Redoubling scheme, see: http://www.dailymotion.com/user/IndustryInsider/ |
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« Reply #33 on: October 08, 2010, 17:54:01 » |
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Do we know exactly what is going to happen behind the new platform?
I know from previous discussion there is no likelihood of a bay, but let's hope they don't just leave the sort of half baked job they did at Kensington Olympia southbound, where there is just a gap one track wide and then a ruined platform...
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IndustryInsider
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« Reply #34 on: October 08, 2010, 18:09:30 » |
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I'll return with my camera in a month or so!
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To view my GWML▸ Electrification cab video 'before and after' video comparison, as well as other videos of the new layout at Reading and 'before and after' comparisons of the Cotswold Line Redoubling scheme, see: http://www.dailymotion.com/user/IndustryInsider/ |
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« Reply #35 on: October 11, 2010, 11:17:33 » |
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Yes - they're backfilling to extend the up platform out to the new track alignment.
The infill will be easily removable should they ever want to reinstate a turnback bay.
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #37 on: October 16, 2010, 18:32:49 » |
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Thanks for posting, Chafford1! This is also being discussed at http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=7789.0 CfN.  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #39 on: October 20, 2010, 13:52:51 » |
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Yes, they are spending their franchise commitment....it wasn't 'voluntarily' invested.
Effectively, it's tax-payers money - the money spent in buying the franchise.
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« Reply #40 on: October 20, 2010, 13:58:30 » |
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And as such another glowing endorsement of their unique franchise model.
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« Reply #41 on: October 20, 2010, 14:04:28 » |
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Oh completely agree there! This was the base of my submission to the DfT» consultation on franchising, which has just closed.
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« Reply #43 on: January 18, 2011, 21:54:51 » |
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The next Chiltern weekday blockade between Bicester North and High Wycombe is set for Friday. March 11. Alternative routing and other arrangements appear to be much the same as last November. http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/content/friday-11-march-important-travel-newsThere will then be what are simply described at the moment as "major changes" from Sunday, May 1, to Sunday, May 8. |
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« Reply #44 on: January 19, 2011, 09:13:32 » |
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You sure?....The last Chiltern announcement I saw had a two week closure from April 22....
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