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Here's one (NR13 Planning Drawing - B6117 Fall Lane, Thornhill Road (MDL1-9) - Proposed Highway GA.pdf):

Yes that's what I meant, thanks snowball, but thanks to G for reply. Here's why I think so (from the Design Guide): [/URL][/IMG]

My impression from the plans is that several of the piers and abutments supporting the Trinity Way bridge can't be built until the road is realigned, either back to its original course or to a new temporary one. Good to hear of progress though.

Also not quite finished are the footbridges at Rainhill Station. According to a letter from NR to local residents, the metal grilles that replaced the temporary plywood and scaffolding are themselves being replaced by clear plastic panels. Work is now underway. Personally I thought the...

NR didn’t ‘forget’ any such thing (though your quotation marks seem to suggest something even more implausible, namely deliberate evasion). Their case is that they consulted heritage bodies at the appropriate time according to the GRIP rules. If there had been either forgetting or deliberate...

There's another indication here, from a while back though still probably some kind of guide (pdf link seems to be broken however).

Indeed, and it wasn't a rubber stamp but a 15-page letter. Someone had to write it, thoroughly checking and in part modifying the Report in the process. Opponents will pore intensively over the decision for a chance to object - the record suggests it would take a lot of work to deter inveterate...

It was presented in public. The Inquiry website (still open) shows that Mark Whitby and other objectors presented their various alternative schemes. You are perhaps misled by Nym's remark about the public consultations, which were earlier (three of them). Network Rail presented at these only the...

So: headspans. See post 2178 (smug look).

Information on the Rainhill gap is thin on the ground. As far as I can tell, there is no mention of electrification plans on the St Helens planning site (beyond already completed work). Except for this interesting paragraph from English Heritage's letter responding to the Sankey Viaduct...

They could accommodate perturbations with a platform change, provided there was a platform available. The question is what should be the standard pattern, and it remains a puzzle why a simpler and more convenient one hasn't been introduced.

Or, route all the slow trains along the slow line, which I assume will be the eventual configuration, and for which the infrastructure now seems to exist. I can't understand why they aren't doing it already, given the evident inconvenience that you speak of.

There's nothing in the 'Prior Approval' request submitted to Knowsley Council about alterations to the canopy. I imagine it's been temporarily removed because the props supporting it needed to make way for the works to raise and resurface the platform.

You can't construct a two-track railway through a contiguous group of listed structures without both 'touching' and 'damaging' them. In fact several structures will suffer 'substantial harm', in NR's own description, including partial or even total demolition (e.g. of the cast iron bridge over...

I don’t think you can have read the proposal very carefully, as there is no plan to dismantle any grade I listed buildings. Only two structures in the vicinity are grade I, Stephenson’s bridge and the Liverpool Road station (with associated warehouse), and the Chord avoids both of these. The...

I agree it looks both haphazard and slow. Had a look round Roby over the holiday period, where the new subway is open and there is some further progress on platform refurbishments and extensions, and sheet piling has appeared along much of the embankment to the west. At Rainhill there is no sign...

Network Rail consultation on work at Huyton is underway (caused by the need to acquire land): http://www.networkrail.co.uk/improvements/northern-hub/projects/huyton-roby/ Incidentally, Knowsley Council's Planning public access system here has plans of the station and platform designs...

Thanks for the reminder of my original post. Had a wander round Roby the other day. One can get fairly close to the embankment works as they are next to a playing field. But not much is to be seen. All the vegetation is stripped away, and there is what looks like a new haul road. There are...

To be more exact, three tracking will happen sooner than you think (see post 132) :wink:.

The idea is of course to allow fast Manchester trains (4 per hour under the Northern Hub) to overtake slow ones. I suppose the pathing calculations showed that this short stretch of four-tracking, given that it contains two stations that will detain the local trains, will be enough. That is...