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According to Rail Technology Magazine, full construction will only start in early 2026 - how long do people think it will take to build the (four platform) station? HS2 Solihull: 15 Bridge Beams Installed at Interchange Station

Are there any plans for EMR to get replacements for the 158s and 170s? If not, will they have to wait for cascaded 170s from Northern (from 2030 onwards!) to replace the 158s or are there other units which might be going spare?

Once HS2 Phase 1 opens I have done a quick calculation of fare income from Old Oak Common. I think there should be 6tph, of which 3 will be 200m sets and 3 will be 400m sets The former will have 500 seats and the latter 1,000, so that's 4,500 seats per hour in each direction, 9,000 per hour in...

Do people expect that once HS2 opens to Old Oak Common that the overcrowding will get a bit better? Or will the extra people on the services that use the freed-up capacity more than compensate for fewer long-distance passengers?

Once HS2 Phase 1 opens, there should be a lot more capacity at Euston for services to Chester, Shrewsbury & North Wales. Are there enough Class 805s to take advantage of this, or will they continue to run the existing service but just with fewer delays? Furthermore, what do you think they should...

Anyone know how many 221s are remaining with Avanti and when the remaining ones will transfer across? According to the 805 thread, all booked services will be 805s from December, so presumably they will have transferred by then. (I did search for a thread on this topic but could only find...

According to the MML electrification thread, there were surveys done of Nottingham station in preparation for possible electrification. If this was done, what improvements could be made to MML services? Could we see the extension of the Connect services up to Nottingham, or at least Leicester...

As I understand it, tracklaying will not start on HS2 until all the civils work (except for the stations) is complete. I haven't seen anything due to finish after 2025 - is that right and what will be the last piece of civils work to be completed?

Apologies if there is another similar thread, but does anyone know roughly when the next stages of construction will start? With tunnelling planned to finish in 2024, will tracklaying start then as well, followed by the overhead wires and signals, or will there be a delay before it starts?

Network Rail started work on two new lifts at Finsbury Park in December 2021 and said they would finish in November 2022, but don't look very close to finishing! Any update on what the delay is or how much longer it will take?

Loadings on the Elizabeth Line seem to have been higher than expected. It was built with the capability to take 11 coach trains (up from 9 currently) and up to 30 trains per hour (up from 24 currently). Has there been any information on what might trigger these increases in capacity or which...

As I understand it, when HS2 opens then Old Oak Common will be the terminus for a few years until the Euston Station rebuild is completed. Has there been much information released about how this will work in terms of onward connections? Surely they can't be expecting everyone to jump onto an...

Following the closure of the through running thread, I thought I would open one to discuss passenger numbers and whether the line is displacing passengers from other lines. E.g. is the Jubilee line now less busy between Bond Street and Canary Wharf?

I read a while ago that the issue would cause delays in the production of these new units while they ensured that the new trains wouldn't have the same issue. Is that delay still ongoing or have they solved it?

While looking at the new stats, I saw that Kilburn had a massive drop from nearly 2 million in 2014/15 to less than 1 million in 2015/16. The numbers haven't recovered since, and I was wondering what caused this large drop?

When going from Waterloo to Guildford in the morning, I get the 0800 which is normally a (fairly empty) 10-coach pair of 444s. However when coming back, I get the 1719 (or other trains around that time) and this is normally a busy pair of 450s. Are any of the return trains around this time 444s...

Grant Shapps has just been appointed Transport Secretary, does anyone know his views on rail? Surely he can't be as bad as Grayling.... https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1154122277249789961

Northern's services have started to be entered in Real Train Times, and because there are likely to be a few big changes, I thought they deserved their own thread. At this time, there are a couple of Hazel Grove - Blackpool services loaded in which are three minutes quicker between Piccadilly...

There will be 3 tpd in each direction between Liverpool and Glasgow, with 1 more stopping at Carlisle (up)/Oxenholme (down). Of these, only the 12.32 will stop at St Helens and continue to Scotland, although both the shorter services stop there. One train Glasgow-Liverpool will stop at Lea...

Great, is there somewhere this information is publicly available? What is the expected journey time between Liverpool and Preston?