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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    Excellent clear footage, commentary, editing and enthusiasm- a career beckons. Well done, Matilda and Mum.
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    Doncaster Sheffield Airport to reopen?

    Thinks- are there any elections around the corner? Needs a headstone for an obvious vanity project. Doncaster has great rail services and needs no airport of its own. Where is Doncaster University?
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    Thank you for this, Scooby. I find the piccie most informative. Looks like a substantial length of line with water on both sides of the embankment- a lot of weight of water 'going nowhere', not drained by the Seldom Seen Culvert! One for the hydrological engineers?
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    Baildon landslip

    Thank you for putting this kinfdly- I had a minor stroke last yhear, so my reading off Streetview, transposition here and typing are all factors :frown:
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    Baildon landslip

    The property largely affected by the landslip appears to be Spring Hill, Silsden Lane, off Roundwood Road, Baildon. History and ground investigation tells me there's a clue in the name - 'Spring'- often ignored in considering development. The Bradford MDC planning website gives no indication of...
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    "HS2 Back on Track" - front page of Sunday Express - private sector plan to build Birmingham to Manchester

    So, 2b not to be, but to be called something else, not part of or son or daughter of HS2, or NPR... the 'missing link' maybe- an evolution, from a dinosaur perhaps? With you on this Bletchleyite- if it looks like a duck, a 'Mallard' or 'Great Snipe' maybe, and waddles like a duck, time to stop...
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    HS2 Old Oak Common

    Thank you for this reference back to proposed GWML trackplan for OOC at #107, 25 April 2023- very useful ... .. and for this to posts #34 and 35 ... I plead an inability to 'keep up', a surfieit of 'better things to do' (my wife says!) and the stroke I had which hinders me. I guess if the...
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    HS2 Old Oak Common

    Regarding the observations of the Plymouth MP about disruption caused to travellers to London from the South West, a couple of points. During major disruptions/ closures at Old Oak Common, travellers have alternative routes available via Exeter or Reading to Waterloo- not ideal of course but...
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    Disused railways reinstatement or walking cycling routes

    Both Bath and Padstow are popular parts of the National Cycle Network:https://www.sustrans.org.uk/find-a-route-on-the-national-cycle-network?location=South+West+England&routetype=null&distance=null&p=1. Rail fans need to find ways of 'living together'.
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    Another landslip - Knottingley (Pontefract East area)

    Red herring? I think I can see slipped land and trees in post#4. Managed embankments should have 'known' tree species with root habits that will be known; unmanaged ones- who knows what has grown up? It might be possible to exploit technology here too- drones and ground penetrating radar? Or a...
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    Baildon landslip

    I was thinking that, which is pretty evident from the photo at post#54. I hope they have 'appropriate' insurance cover and have found suitable temporary accommodation while they contemplate a range of possible futures, which I imagine was not in their thinking before.
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    Another landslip - Knottingley (Pontefract East area)

    Indeed. Although, as I see, some Forumites may (think that they) know a thing or two about trees and their roots, I was hoping that, by now, and with the known consequences of inattention to them, someone may have commissioned/ undertaken a proper study of the matter and determined 'official'...
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    Reopening to Padstow would generate more traffic than reopening Tavistock-Okehampton

    Evidence for these unsupported assertions? I dare say the Transport and Rail Ministers, and HMTreasury, would be pleased to consider a proposal and supporting business case for a private sector initiative along these lines.
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    Another landslip - Knottingley (Pontefract East area)

    Does Network rail have resources and capability to assess the scale of the issue and what could/ should be done- to rectify and better still avoid this growing problem? have reports and recommendations been produced- and maybe ignored or deferred or sidelined? Is it decided, for instance...
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    Surely the case is now much stronger for Bere Alston - Tavistock - Okehampton!

    I, for one, agree. The 'rail industry' is not helped by unquestioning and unswerving support, especially when there are other calls upon limited funds beyond and between more deserving projects, like the NHS and Social care.
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    Another landslip - Knottingley (Pontefract East area)

    Another fine example of the need for ongoing attention to supporting infrastructure and resisting deferment and cuts to 'maintenance'.
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    Surely the case is now much stronger for Bere Alston - Tavistock - Okehampton!

    You're right that 'no cost' was not mentioned. I was trying, and clearly failed miserably, to make the point that 'asking residents of Okehampton/Tavistock if they would visit vice versa more often if a rail link was built' is not likely to produce a particularly helpful response. How 'truthful'...
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    Surely the case is now much stronger for Bere Alston - Tavistock - Okehampton!

    Residents of anywhere would say they would like a bus every 10 mins to everywhere at no cost, and still not use it
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    East West Rail project [to be] examined by Transport Committee [on March 6th 2024 from 09:30]

    The Transport Cttee heard much in relation to EWR about it contributing opportunities for regeneration of Bedford, and high-paid jobs (rather than for housing- the 'arc' being played down (I think for 'political'/NIMBY reasons- greenfields etc. Bedford- expect some 'densification'. Flats for...

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