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    Trivia. Freight Avoiding Lines UK.

    Before the rebuild, I never saw anything use either of them, and their condition suggested that they were rarely if ever used. There used to be a (if not more) centre road(s) at Stalybridge as well, by the time I was using the station it had been cut back to a central siding with buffer stop at...
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    Your ideas for the Thameslink service pattern

    15 min frequency in each direction on the Sutton Loop all terminating at Blackfriars.
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    We need to talk about Castlefield again.

    So (even with a bit of latitude on those timings) quicker via Victoria? And avoiding pinch points. The only people who miss out are those to and from Stockport on that specific service.
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    We need to talk about Castlefield again.

    Because people were considering rationally and without emotion, that some services needed to change, and that certain services’ historic pathing might not be required, and that it would avoid conflicting train movements on the most congested part of the Manchester network I.e Oxford...
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    We need to talk about Castlefield again.

    Or the other route via Hyde which is similarly under-used. 1 passenger train per hour for a station 22 mins from central Manchester (freight paths also no doubt exist) ... (I also understand that the section between Ashburys and Guide Bridge serves 2 tph to Glossop/Hadfield as well as Trans...
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    We need to talk about Castlefield again.

    If Carrington goes ahead, and the link to the WCML, then combined with reinstatement of Glazebrook viaduct (as the report notes may be financially quite an easy win) has the potential to remove Liverpool - Sheffield and beyond) services from Castlefield (disregarding the wails of why it is...
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    Plan to remove Croydon rail bottleneck

    That used to be the case, until approx 2 years ago, the Overground now terminates exclusively in the bay platform and the turn back is used for terminating Southern services. Perhaps the bay isn't long enough for extended trains?
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    Your experiences of unbelievable rolling stock diagram allocations (past and present)

    There was a Summer of drags by (56s?) from New Street to London due to Overhead works I think? People have referenced it here before with You Tube links
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    Government - Increase use of public transport

    So while your transport emissions go down (and those of say the other 200 or so people who work in the same office) your heating, power, lighting requirements (and those of your 200 colleagues go up). I bet it is more efficient to heat 1 office building than 200 individual homes. So instead of...
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    East-West Rail (EWR): Consultation updates [not speculation]

    That (I believe) is to do with the size of the cable that was required to carry DC electric which of course Woodhead was, and therefore the very substantial structures currently support a cable that is tiny in comparison to that which it used to carry. Iirc the cable that was sold by BR after...
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    Castlefield corridor potential solutions?

    If Trans Pennine electrification is completed, presumably if done properly, electric traction could tackle the climb out of Victoria? Thus removing the once per hour freight path through Piccadilly 13/14?
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    Castlefield corridor potential solutions?

    Is the west-facing turn back at Victoria reinstatement of Red Bank? Here would look to be a truck-load of space available between there and the metro link depot. If we are talking about running through trains, surely what then needs to be looked at are the congestion points this pushes further...
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    Storm Dennis disruption 15th & 16th

    Can someone confirm why these restrictions are in place in advance if Avanti are advertising to run a normally-timetabled service? That presumes Avanti are not ‘expecting’ infrastructure problems?
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    Availability of accessible rail replacement coaches

    None of the above applies as the legal definition requiring an operation of passenger transport hinges on the existence of “hire or reward” which is taken to mean ‘Payment being made by or on behalf of a person which gives that person the right or expectation to be carried regardless of whether...
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    Proposal to split cross-Manchester services and re-route trains heading west to run from Victoria

    Could not the Liverpool - Sheffield (and further) service be routed by Victoria and then via Philips Park/Ashburys? Granted it might incur a time penalty as it is longer via that route, but capacity between Ashburys to Hope Valley via either Guide Bridge or Bredbury is certainly not full? That...
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    Elephant & Castle Platform lengths

    This used to be a complete pita for me when I was traveling between East Croydon and E&C on the old (Pre-London Bridge) Thameslink timetable in the evenings between 17-18.00 as this was the time they were running 12 car trains back into the core, and they didn’t stop (on Platform 1) at all...
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    GM Prospectus for Rail

    It's about damned time. Dukinfield, in particular that area is ripe for a commuter service into central Manchester which is completely unserved. I commuted into central Manchester from that area and drove because public transport was so circuitous - over 1 hour by bus for 8 miles, or walk 20...
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    London Blackfriars

    As someone whose closest station is on the loop, this would be great news. Is it tied into the moving of the trams out of Wimbledon station though to provide platform capacity back to both faces?
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    London Blackfriars

    Don’t think it was the residents of Sutton who objected to the doubling of the frequency on the loop, iirc it was MP for Wimbledon who did the moaning. As has been said on previous threads though, this is probably one of the easiest London-only service changes which delivers the most number of...
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    Does LU produce its own power, independent of the National Grid?

    Wikipedia (I know) suggests that LU are looking at upgrading the generators at Greenwich. If this sort of situation becomes more prevalent, probably more expedient to do something!

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