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On that basis, wouldn't Dudley be ineligible, as it wouldn't be considered to actually have a station?

Perhaps there's an opportunity for the (minority of) surly Caledonian Sleeper staff to undertake short-term secondments on the Night Riviera and see what less surly customer service looks/feels like.

I recall going for a meeting in that pre-fab building when it was pretty new. The staff I met said it was a medium term location as the site was likely to be required for HS2 in the future.

I think your summary of the history is correct. Advocating for a wholly or partially underground station is guaranteed to be unsuccessful with the DfT/NPR/HS2. Perhaps it's a wider strategy of fully expecting to get knocked back on this issue, so using it as leverage elsewhere.

I used to go to meetings on the top floor in 2013-2014. It would indeed need gutting, plus I'm not sure it would actually have enough accommodation for Network Rail.

The nearest experience to that would be the table service in the Club Car on the Caledonian Sleeper and the Business Class dining with Arriva Trains.

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Latest updates on construction: Charbridge Lane, Bicester Station Road, Launton Marsh Gibbon Main Street, Charndon

The extremely shallow angle that the EWR alignment crossed the WCML makes the positioning of intermediate piers almost impossible. The previous structure was highly bespoke in order to achieve this - which is ultimately part the reason it failed. The new structure is very heavy, very solid...

EWR Phase 2 - Bletchley Flyover Result of the May Day bank holiday weekend blockade

EWR2 progress - this time new deck installation at Jarvis Lane, in east Bicester.

Quite. If the answer wasn't 'he couldn't care less', I'd wonder what the response of Dr.Beeching would be to: Channel Tunnel HS1 HS2 Waverley Line East West Rail Chiltern Line Crossrail Trans-pennine routes Skipton-Colne National electrification programme Sheffield Supertram / Manchester...

EWR2 progress - this time new deck installation at Little Horwood Road, east of Winslow. Original New

The property is remaining, albeit with a railway commissioned at the edge of the property. The owner sold the property to the project, which will then resell it upon completion, with whoever buys it being fully aware of an operational railway at the edge of the property. Whilst the previous...

Station Road (Launton) bridge coming on nicely.

Bletchley minus the flyover. New OLE on WCML. Piling for new portal structure in both cess's.

Yes - it was considered at GRIP 2 and discounted. At that point, interesting options included: Up/Down chords between OXD and LEC1, connecting directly onto the Up/Down fast lines. Up/Down chords between OXD and LEC1, running parallel with LEC1 to just south of MKC, before crossing over LEC1...

The HS2 construction railhead at Calvert will be twice the size of the permanent compound. You get an idea for the size of the railhead from Google Maps, where you can see the scar of the diverted HP gas main along the northern boundary. Anyway, there will be north and south facing turnouts...

In the permanent case, there is no connection between the HS2 mainline and the MCJ3/4 line, rather there is a turnout from the HS2 mainline into the HS2 Calvert depot, which passes under the OXD line via a portal structure. The is regulating loop on the north side of the OXD line, that...

When trains start running to Cambridge, the train frequency will require all level crossings to be closed on BBM, which is some locations is highly awkward. It's therefore falls to the scope of EWR Co. as developer of that phase of the scheme. It had been proposed to close some 'easy win'...