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    DfT press release on Northern Powerhouse Rail

    This press release has appeared on the DfT website: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-next-steps-onnorthern-powerhouse-rail-between-liverpool-and-manchester
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    DfT appoints Alex Hynes as Director General, Rail Services

    NR press release https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/md-of-scotlands-railway-alex-hynes-appointed-director-general-for-rail-services and on the DfT website https://www.gov.uk/government/news/alex-hynes-appointed-director-general-for-rail-services
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    National Audit Office report on rail reform

    Report now out https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/rail-reform-the-rail-transformation-programme/
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    Cheshire East council says it faces bankruptcy due to HS2 link cancellation

    Please move if there's an existing thread more suitable for this, or if this new thread should be in a different subforum. From the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/14/cheshire-east-council-says-it-faces-bankruptcy-due-to-hs2-link-cancellation
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    Hardie report on Edinburgh trams finally out

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/19/edinburgh-tram-line-cost-public-inquiry-report
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    Air purifying trial at New Street

    Press release https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/hi-tech-air-purifying-totem-trials-planned-for-new-street-station-platforms
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    Government response to transport committee on IRP

    Almost a year after the Commons Transport Select Committee wrote a report on the Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands, the Government's response has been published. No summary is provided. The response is too long for a meaningful quote...
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    Jenny Gilruth did not break the ministerial code over Haymarket to Dalmeny electrification project

    Moderator note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/haymarket-to-dalmeny-electrification.225171/ The BBC has this fairly recent report, not about the electrification itself but about the political row: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-65915929.amp
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    Nuneham Viaduct: what alternative provision could be provided?

    Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/nuneham-viaduct-shut-didcot-oxford.246310/ The ideal solution, in view of discussions in other threads, but taking a few years, would be to build a new 2-track bridge alongside, divert the railway on to it, demolish the old bridge...
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    Bridge at Whaley Bridge to be replaced early 2023

    Network Rail press release https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/whaley-bridge-residents-invited-to-railway-bridge-overhaul-meeting And here's a piece from the Buxton Advertiser for a couple of weeks ago:
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    New edition Jul 2022 of Enhancements Delivery Plan Scotland

    There doesn't seem to be any still-open, recent general thread for enhancements in Scotland, so I'm creating one. A few years ago there used to be regular published updates to Network Rail's Enhancements Delivery Plan. This process seems to have ended with respect to England and Wales, but...
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    Longest electrified stretch fed from one end?

    Where is the longest stretch of electrified track in GB that is normally fed from one end only? This could be (1) a stretch from a feeder station to the end of a line or (2) a stretch from a feeder station to a point where electrification ends and the line continues unelectrified or (3) a...
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    Cumbrian stations platform extensions

    I think this i the thread in which platform lengthening in Cumbria has been discussed previously. Now a press release: https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/multi-million-pound-platform-extensions-for-passengers-in-cumbria
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    Borders line (Scotland) electrification news and updates

    From Midlothian View: https://www.midlothianview.com/news/borders-railway-electrification-bid-revealed/ So two stretches of wiring. At the north end, wires from the existing wires at Newcraighall to a point SW of Sheriffhall Mains. At the south end, from the south of Bowshank tunnel to the...
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    HS2 traction power feeding arrangements

    How much has been published about proposed feeder station sites for HS2 phases 1, 2a and 2b? I seem to remember noticing some proposed autotransformer sites on the phase 2b plans but I was concentrating on other aspects at the time. Is there a list anywhere?
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    Dunblane - Perth - Dundee - Aberdeen electrification updates

    I think this is a significant enough development to deserve a thread of its own. A short while ago Marty82 posted, in the thread "Potential rail improvements around Aberdeen and North East Scotland", this link to a planning application by Network Rail to Aberdeen City Council...
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    Any modern bridge ever raised for electrification?

    Has any bridge or structure newly built over a UK railway since, say, 1930 ever had to be rebuilt or have its deck raised to provide electrical clearance for subsequent overhead electrification of the railway? I'm not counting parapets that need to be raised to make it safer for people on the...
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    Shapps "promised to scrap HS2 Golborne spur"

    The Guardian website is claiming that Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, has privately promised to drop the Golborne spur. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/06/senior-tory-graham-brady-grant-shapps-privately-assured-hs2-branch-scrapped Unique event?: at this moment the top two...
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    Hartlepool to have a platform reinstated as funding now confirmed

    Hartlepool to get its second platform back https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-60887677
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    UK Connectivity Review

    The UK government's "UK Connectivity Review", headed by Sir Peter Hendy, has published its final report: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/union-connectivity-review-final-report Hitherto the Scottish and Welsh governments have been very hostile to the way the UK government has gone...

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