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Title: Go ahead given to new railway stations and SWML upgrade Cardiff to Severn tunnel Post by: anthony215 on October 11, 2024, 22:27:11 Green light has been given to upgrade the relief lines between Severn tunnel junction and Cardiff Central allowing linespeeds to be raided to 90mph.
6 new stations including Magor will be constructed with the first due to open in 2027 the last in 2030. TFW did propose running up to 2tph stopping services between Cardiff and Bristol Temple Meads. TFW did want to run it using more additional class 756s.even if Filton Bank is fully wired could a temporary idea be to run 756s on batteries between Patchway and Bristol TM Title: Re: Go ahead given to new railway stations and SWML upgrade Cardiff to Severn tunnel Post by: ChrisB on October 13, 2024, 15:44:24 Do you want to complete the post? ;D
Title: Re: Go ahead given to new railway stations and SWML upgrade Cardiff to Severn tunnel Post by: Noggin on October 13, 2024, 16:25:17 https://nation.cymru/news/810-million-railway-upgrade-announced-by-welsh-government/ (https://nation.cymru/news/810-million-railway-upgrade-announced-by-welsh-government/)
https://tfw.wales/sites/default/files/2024-10/Burns-Prospectus-Oct-24_ENG.pdf (https://tfw.wales/sites/default/files/2024-10/Burns-Prospectus-Oct-24_ENG.pdf) By my reading it's still more a shopping list than a request for tender, but happy to be proved wrong. Two new stations a year is a pretty ambitious plan - perhaps WECA might be able to organised electrification of Filton to Temple Meads to enable electric through services? Title: Re: Go ahead given to new railway stations and SWML upgrade Cardiff to Severn tunnel Post by: anthony215 on October 14, 2024, 14:07:22 Title: Re: Go ahead given to new railway stations and SWML upgrade Cardiff to Severn tunnel Post by: johnneyw on October 14, 2024, 15:38:44 - perhaps WECA might be able to organised electrification of Filton to Temple Meads to enable electric through services? This was a stated ambition from the WECA mayor but since being told by Labour head office that he can no longer seek re-election next year due to becoming an MP, his focus may now have shifted elsewhere with this policy getting quietly dropped. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |