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Not unless it was conditional on a substantial expansion of Silverstone village, I expect.

Do you know how long the siding is planned to be? There doesn't look to be too much room between the end of the down platform and the housing north of the station. Also interesting it's off to the side and not between the running lines, but I guess flaring out the up track would penalise...

But the issue is it's the level of demand for all but 7-8 days of the year that would struggle to justify a wayside station on an existing line, let alone an entirely new line.

I wouldn't be so absolutely sure about that Housing - some directly through developer contributions (rail access makes their properties more valuable) but mostly through the economic dimension of rail funding. NIMBYs are a big problem, but NIMBYs are very keen for things to be built in their...

A high floor system is not a massive problem OK but this just seems a bizzare throwback. Fair, I had thought previous conversations on another thread had said 60mph was capable on the Bury route but double-checking the vehicle max speed is 50mph. However Sheffield Class 399 and Cardiff Class...

You've presumably missed the point about rebuilding the line to fit a standard project. Including abandoning Ryde Tunnel in favour of street running, if necessary. Again, this is irrelevant to any case for investment. Unless you're going to be charging a premium for sitting up front. So signal...

New battery stock would almost certainly be better than the Turbos. Although whether it'd be better than a new DMU such as a FLIRT I don't know.

I believe it will initially be a shuttle as that's the least disruptive option for introducing a new service. At the moment, the Filton-BTM and Severn Beach/Avonmouth-BTM/Weston services interwork* but the addition of the Portishead line would give opportunity for that to be rewritten to provide...

But part of the Sussex route for NR (the 3 routes of the Southern Region are Kent, Sussex and Wessex).

Is this part of the today's government announcement or a separate confirmation?

Ideally before that but yes. Get it built, get people on it, then use that data to demonstrate the case for further improvement.

Because Leeds is far and away the destination with more demand?

If you're spending any sort of capital money on the line, converting it to an off-the-shelf tram-train with battery operation for on-street sections is the obvious way to go. Use tram standard track, signals, vehicles, etc. Operating on-street would allow the vehicles to get much closer to the...

The '3 New Stations' are almost certainly separate items in that announcement, not stations on the Portishead Line.

The 3 stations are almost certainly a separate project to Portishead, Agree

Also famously not the quietest stretches of road in the world.

Silverstone is a decent distance from the M25, it would be a slog up the busiest section of the M1. It's one thing an EWR/HS2 interchange that some called for might have been good for, as the coach shuttle would be more or less up and down the A43. However that would still have been an...

I agree, not least because there's nothing saying Ashton Gate's been added back in, which would be the 3rd station if it was included.

It's not clear from the sentence construction if the '3 new stations' are on the Portishead line or actually mean the 3 others you highlighted. It can be read as: Delivering key rail projects: - Portishead, which last ran 30 years ago - 3 new stations, bringing thousands of people closer to...

Incorrect, it interacts with London Victoria-Reigate services between Reigate and Redhill and lots of Brighton Mainline Services at Redhill as well as Gatwick.