Recent content by waverley47

This is just blatantly and provably untrue. If business cases were anti-rail, we wouldn't ever reopen any lines would we. Do your best business case, and if you can come up with a BCR of more than 1.2 over twenty-five years, then I'll be impressed.

Not really. Take this thread for example. I could propose the railway as a solution to a problem; over-tourism in the national park. Of course the railway might be solving that problem, but there is absolutely no way whatsoever that the proposal stands up to even the slightest scrutiny, and...

Again, new thread, but no. It's all commercially sensitive information. Scotland puts a heavy premium on the social service aspects, and so we calculated things differently. The UKGov is far more concerned with cost, so we had to estimate highest possible cost, with pessimism bias. We did a...

You must be joking. Unless this is very well veiled sarcasm, i cannot for the life of me fathom why anyone would ever propose this. This is a new thread but I'll do them briefly. I could make the Leamington line work on paper if it is run as a combination heavy rail/metro line, with metro...

This line falls into the category shared by so many of our closed railway lines. I can think of three, maybe four, reopening proposals that I could fudge the numbers enough to make work on paper. The rest all have the same problem. If we were doing Beeching now, we might decide not to close...

I think the reply in post 28 by ThePlanner sums up my feelings quite well. If we assume maximum potential ridership of 1 million a year, which is quite an ambitious overestimate, and take a nice median estimate of prices from 2007 at £100m, that still means that the line would pay itself back...

What's the condition of the bridges along the route? What about the sections where the river has moved and the formation washed away? What about the fact that in the current day, it's significantly more difficult to build brand new level crossings; are you going to put the lines through...

Do we have a source for the number of units to be reintroduced so we can update the master thread?

The WCML was closed south of Carstairs as well today, so definitely a bad day for everyone involved

Ah perfect, I thought that it might have already been plain-lined so that does clear everything up. Definitely a terrible one to try and signal around, but ultimately nothing of value will be lost from plain lining this.

Points 86a/b are the crossover from the up main to down main at Craigentinny Jn. Point 85a is the point from down main into Craigentinny Depot. Point 67a/b are the junction from the Leith Docks Branch onto the up main at Portobello Junction. Point 66a/b are the crossover at Portobello...

Which crossing is it exactly, because millerhill depot being out of wack would suggest it's somewhere at Niddrie south junction, which wouldn't impact the main ECML. They are also running from Millerhill depot through Craigentinny and into Waverley as I send this, with 5R81 making the trip...

Ah fair enough Yeah I thought this was the case, but thought it worth a check

Do LNER still sign the short diversion via Millerhill, and is that still signalled to passenger standard? I assume it's not happening for a combination of the above and that its a bit awkward with the half hourly Borders services.

Lea Bridge. Either Finsbury Park, Highbury and Islington and Stratford or Kings Cross, Farringdon and Stratford.