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  1. Spartacus

    East Mids Area Rail Capacity

    Unless St Pancras is rebuilt again, then no. The platforms are short and can only take 2x5 5 car 222s, or 2x5 car 810s, which are a specially built 24m version of the standard Hitachi AT300 unit in order to fit in St Pancras.
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    The bit between Ravensthorpe and the canal is former (recent) landfill so will likely all need work to make sure it's suitable for building on, plus I think it's getting a feeder station, while that closer to Ravensthorpe is on an embankment, one of the main reasons I was surprised by the...
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    Signal failure on the down at Heeley.
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    Non-Urgent TOPS Requests

    Yes, 66308
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    Sounds accurate to me ;):lol:
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    Non-Urgent TOPS Requests

    It's up at Grangemouth at the moment.
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    I always felt that White Rose station was always something of a fop to the shopping centre as it was initially planned to be within the Leeds clean air zone, which would probably have decimated it's customer numbers, especially in it's initial form, and even to a degree had it been implemented...
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    Thameslink Problems

    It's the nature of the beast, a route with many arms in many directions, all concentrated on one two track core, meaning delays from one place will quickly be spread far and wide.
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    It'd take a lot longer, over 2 hours (assuming a decent path) between Sheffield and Man Pic via Beighton, Derby, Uttoxeter etc compared to 90 minutes via Huddersfield.
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    TPE Nova 3 (Class 68 + Mk5s) updates and withdrawal from service

    Relying on the DfT to see sense for something to happen usually means that it won't! :lol:
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    Urgent TOPS Requests

    69008 should have worked 5Z51 to Widnes. Running it unconsisted or with the wrong loco allocated woudn't be usual for GBRf. 69002 was last reported at Tonbridge, which seems unlikely for an unconsisted move. 69006 worked into Toton at 1407, but that seems unlikely too. I reckon it's the...
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    Urgent TOPS Requests

    TRUST is only showing 69010 at Leicester.
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    Urgent TOPS Requests

    Cheers.
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    Urgent TOPS Requests

    Do0es anyone know what's on 5Q32 Merchant Park - Oxley please? https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K02136/2024-03-11/detailed
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    Sutton Park line - no trains

    Excavation too, so some serious attempt at hiding/burying it. There's been a bit of a dogwalkers path down there for a while, closer to it in the past though.

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