Recent content by AndrewE

Bugger! I have missed the GWR one again! (Unless my PVR spotted it and has recorded it. I'll find out later...)

Yes, because the first few of those have had most of the UK's rail investment. What is cause and what is effect? GWR could have more bums on seats if it could reliably provide longer trains (if what we read here is to be believed), ICWC should be getting more (track) capacity if the politicians...

You could double or triple capacity on lots of routes by just running longer trains, as has been pointed out repeatedly. Junction capacity is irrelevant when XC are running 4-coach trains on lines which are intended for 12-coach expresses, or (LNR) 4 coach trains between Liverpool and Brum...

Weren't they craning in box culvert sections - that would dramatically reduce the weight of the embankment. (Or was that just someone's bright idea - if you accept that the golf course will become a tidal/salt marsh again?)

I was wondering whether an ageing shower pump might be starting to bind, making it harder to start (increasing the inrush current?) and causing the whole thing to exceed the MCB rating.

I have never found that, although it has happened in other pubs which said they had it on Whatpub. The Helensburgh Spoons was OK when I went there, but admittedly that was pre-Covid too.

That is quite good, as long as they do emphasise that people need to be travelling on a flexible ticket to make that change. In my experience they do lay it on quite thick, and if people have not changed at Warrington (or have got on the via-Birmingham train by accident) then changing at Crewe...

Late announcements of platform changes seem to be normal at Crewe now. Yesterday the 0943 Euston-Liverpool was announced as departing from p6 as it was running in, cue further delay as the 1st class refreshments refill trolley raced from the extreme S end of p11 round the bay platforms and back...

That really depends on whether you think that "Inter City" (invented in the UK, of course) means an airline-on-wheels, just connecting London with a very few other favoured provincial locations. Lots of other people (like me) would disagree entirely, seeing it as a network providing...

Thanks, I took it from the pic in the BBC article that the land NW of the exit from current platform 1 was to become a car park! That's very helpful, thanks, and quite reassuring. (but why is it so difficult to find it anywhere else?) I still think it's a mistake to only build 1 up through...

Not! Come on, there are currently 2 through platforms in the trainshed (if I remember it right,) this reduces it to just 1, although admittedly only for northbound trains. And I suspect that with our modern expectations of fast and slower services on main lines (and connections between them - I...

... except that the picture shows just a single (through down platform) in the old trainshed, as well as the same on the new up. Is that really enough on a busy main line with LNER, TPE and Northern services? Doesn't seem future-proofed to me.

You are right, yhat NR press release does still say "The two new platforms will provide passengers with a better service and more travel options in the future. They will also improve reliability and reduce delays for both local and long-distance high-speed services on the East Coast Main Line...

So maybe just 1 northbound through platform remaining... what about long-distance up trains calling?

Yes, that's exactly the garbage I discovered... absolutely nothing from NR about the rail provision!