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    Electrified Rail Lines which have either closed or are now diesel operated

    Wasn't there also an electrified connection beneath the WCML which connected the Crewe - Kidsgrove line towards Basford Hall sidings?
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    Trivia: Major cities which don't have any electrified lines, on the National Rail network?

    Isn't a section also being erected at Etches Park depot for testing 810s? The population of Nottingham city itself is about 324k; however, it's one of those places where you can't tell where one town or city ends and another begins, and it's only because of this that the population of what is...
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    The electric HST plans.

    There's a difference between "approved" and "ordered"; none were actually ordered - the project was terminated before it got that far If the source of your information in the National Archive are BRB Investment Committee papers, please don't interpret everything found in them literally; I think...
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    The electric HST plans.

    NO electric HSTs were ordered - the only "hardware" produced was a model! The Mk3 BFOs were intended to operate with class 89s, or something similar; they predated WCML DVTs
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    Network North Electrification Projects

    Interestingly, there were about eight men wearing black polo-tops with Northern logos eating breakfast in the Premier Inn opposite Norwich station one morning in late September Could they have been visiting Crown Point to learn about Greater Anglia's FLIRTS?
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    HS2 phase 2 cancellation: alternative projects which may take place

    An article has appeared on the Rail Technology Magazine website which includes a low resolution map of Northern Powerhouse Rail; the heading of the article is 'Network North details start to take shape after HS2 cancellation', and the map COULD be of those which will be electrified if the...
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    Confirmed : HS2 West Midlands-Manchester line to be scrapped and replaced with other projects.

    Interesting piece in the Independent a few days ago Rob Holden delivered HS1 on time and budget; apparently, he made it known that he was available to participate in the delivery of HS2 - and was told he didn't have the required skills and experience! If he had been involved, I wonder if HS2...
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    Confirmed : HS2 West Midlands-Manchester line to be scrapped and replaced with other projects.

    Does not that depend upon the wording of the relevant Act of Parliament? Wasn't the Festiniog Railway saved from being dismantled because the act which authorised its construction was written in such a way that a further Act of Parliament would be required to abandon it?
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    25/6.25 kV electrification removed

    The link to the Facebook group on #128 will take you to a treasure trove of information about the line, including copies of the original MR drawings for the overhead; scroll through the media and you will find a scan of an article from December 1953's Railway Magazine about the conversion to 50...
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    25/6.25 kV electrification removed

    A link to the Winter 1962 timetable has been provided at #123, but I too was surprised at the quick reversal at Green Ayre shown in it; from memory, trains always seemed to be to time, and the reversal seemed quite leisurely. Usually, the trains just comprised a single 3-car set, and as there...
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    25/6.25 kV electrification removed

    Actually, it was a bit more extensive than described above The line towards Leeds was electrified east of Green Ayre and beneath Skerton Bridge towards Ladies Walk, and from Green Ayre to Lancaster Castle; two platforms at Castle were electrified - 5 and 6 - and wires were removed after the...
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    Great British Railways - Competition for new location of GBR Headquarters

    I didn't even get as far as that on my phone, but it opened OK on my laptop I've attached a transcript as a PDF; this opened when I tried it - hope you have success too
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    Great British Railways - Competition for new location of GBR Headquarters

    On the Independent website: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/transport-secretary-gbr-will-remove-blame-culture-as-derby-unveiled-as-new-hq/ar-AA18UllF?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=51fb7e6982124cffe7b5589576d47b45&ei=83
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    Great British Railways - Competition for new location of GBR Headquarters

    I wasn't employed in an office of highly qualified or experienced engineers, and neither were the people I've known who have worked in the various Rolls Royce facilities except for one. It's true that the companies I've mentioned are all engineering ones, but good salaries are also paid by them...
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    Great British Railways - Competition for new location of GBR Headquarters

    When the BRB was created in the 1960s it chose Derby for some of its new HQ functions; BR Workshops was first, and this was located in a now demolished office block located somewhere near were Zara now is in the city's main shopping centre! Derwent House and Trent House in the Railway Technical...
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    Great British Railways - Competition for new location of GBR Headquarters

    This how the Derby Telegraph has reported the news: https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/derby-home-great-british-railways-8271816
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    Great British Railways - Competition for new location of GBR Headquarters

    Don't forget that both Derwent and Trent Houses were built as BR HQ offices and opened in 1967; Derwent had the Supplies on the ground floor, BR Workshops (as it then was) on the first, together with a massive typing pool (remember them?) facing the front, and some accounts/auditors/etc on the...
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    The Penrhyn Quarry Railway

    This should link to a photo taken by Ron Fisher of the Caernarvonshire Railtour of 20th October 1963; if you look at this and the following few photos, you will see that under one of them Ron has said that this was the last train on the branch, and that track lifting started the following day...
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    Closed lines you have travelled on.

    It will all be revealed! I suddenly realised that there might be something about the Land Cruise Trains in one of the Foxline books on the railways of North Wales, and there's a whole section about them in Bill Rear's book about the Corwen to Rhyl line They started in 1951 and in that year was...

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