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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    Looking at that on Streetview, it's narrower than I remembered it. Might need to close sections of the road to traffic in the opposite direction while it passes?
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    Lifting/Demolition Train working on closed lines?

    Video showing just that:
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    What does this sign mean?

    Very odd, I just get the word "Edit", no dots or arrow.
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    There was discussion somewhere upthread about the Manchester-Stalybridge piling team making a working visit to White Rose, but it wasn't entirely clear whether it was for work for the platforms or for masts.
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    Baildon landslip

    A woman who lives in a neighbouring house, possibly that one, was in the item. There's monitoring equipment in her garden and she said it showed no movement so far.
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    Baildon landslip

    There's to be an item about the house(s) involved on Look North (Leeds) on BBC1 at 2230. It may for all I know have also been on the 1830 edition - I haven't checked.
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    DfT press release on Northern Powerhouse Rail

    See the video in post #339 in the pinned electrification resources thread for an explanation for the large masts.
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    Not quite sure which bit you mean by Greenodd Bends. Admittedly some of the roads in the area, including parts of the A590, are very dodgy, but Greenodd village was bypassed in 1983 for traffic going from Barrow to any of Lancaster, Carnforth, Kendal, or the M6 for Carlisle.
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    What does this sign mean?

    If you are logged in, and looking at a post you posted yourself, it will say "Edit" just to the right of "Report".
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the trains, a press release saying there will be another line closure from 27 April to 1 May, to rebuild what I presume is this rabbit-hole sized underline bridge at Hope...
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    The red line scheme boundary extends a long way from the railway in places...
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    Electrification threads and resources index

    Interesting that neither Huddersfield to Westtown nor Westtown to Leeds is included. Presumably that means that no part of either is expected to go live before CP8? Also no MML north of Wigston, and nothing in Scotland after EK, presumably because nothing is fully committed yet.
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    Levenmouth rail link to reopen: project updates

    The Trackwatch page in the April Modern Railways has a description of the branch. For example the single lead from Thornton North Junction is 60 chains long. Despite the closure of foot crossings towards the western end, and the construction of a farm underpass, one user-worked crossing...
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    DfT press release on Northern Powerhouse Rail

    Though there's no evidence yet that the government will accept that or any similar scheme, or that the mayors' private funding proposal would work.
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    Wigan-Bolton electrification. Construction updates only please

    WatcherZero has posted this on skyscrapercity:

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