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    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    I am fairly sure the stock has air brakes, and air or dual-braked locos have been used in the past. WCRC certainly have air-braked stock even if it's not the regular Jacobite set. A generator van wouldn't need to be crewed and they're used by other charters without a problem. It would of course...
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    Demand for hourly Crewe-Shrewsbury stopping trains

    The whole point of such a line would be to get the non-stopping trains out of the station area, to allow the station to better serve the interchanges for all those passengers connecting through Crewe. I have not forgotten that at all, indeed the entire point of this proposal is to separate the...
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    Demand for hourly Crewe-Shrewsbury stopping trains

    Winsford, thanks! couldn't remember the name and didn't have opportunity to check.
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    Demand for hourly Crewe-Shrewsbury stopping trains

    The platforms on the independent lines are indeed one possible solution, but forgive me for thinking anything in HS2 plans north of Handsacre might be considered 'back burner' at the moment. My personal preference would be to remove the WCML trains by building a Crewe bypass line from...
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    Two trains on single track

    I think the french signalling system is permissive by default (open to correction and all the specific exemptions of course), and their operating rulebook presumably covers situations of reduced visibility.
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    People buying houses with associated noise (churches, railways etc) and then complaining about the noise?

    It's surprising how far Church bells can travel, and I can understand that if you move from a busy city or at least noisy town to a village you might get caught out.
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    Two trains on single track

    ERTMS L2/3, from a purely operational POV. There's various talks about making RETB smoother though with things like returning tokens on the move and 'collapsible' tokens, not sure how far they got. Presumably this is dealt in a similar way to how fully-signalled Bi-Di is controlled as well. I...
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    Assuming it was safe to move without skates or whatever, surely it'd be easier to get DRS or somebody to haul it out via Carlisle?
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    Why are XC allowed to continue?

    Depends how many trains you're buying for XC, and how much other stuff you do while electrifying. It also depends on your operational strategy if you did split XC into an all-electric arm (i.e. would you have pure EMU units or just go with all Bi-Modes. For a rough number EMR's 33x 5-car 810...
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    MML Electrification: progress updates

    Probably Syston station, although could be north of Syston North Jn if that's where a Neutral Section would be. Starting any closer to Leicester is unlikely if there is still any doubt about potential track remodelling for freight.
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    Why are XC allowed to continue?

    So Liverpool should have more services because Exeter is well connected? I'm not arguing Liverpool *shouldn't* be well connected. I'm arguing that if you are choosing between serving one city or the other, you're normally going to get better results serving Manchester.
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    What other possibilities are there to improve capacity around Reading?

    We do, and growth is concentrated on existing corridors.... Business can be vociferous opponents as well. But don't underestimate just how far people will now go out of their way to protect countryside. Diversionary capability = 'we won't use it normally'. Not a great way to begin a pitch to...
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    Reading - Paddington route set for overhaul - BBC report

    Fairly sure yesterday's incident at Ealing Broadway was nothing to do with the maintenance of the infrastructure.
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    Bishops Lydeard - Frome/Westbury service?

    Indeed, hence the 'fantastically lucky' part of the comment. The Weston and Frome loops being singled has certainly held back later developments, as long as other various trimmings where mothballing might have been a more practical way forwards in the South West.
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    Demand for hourly Crewe-Shrewsbury stopping trains

    My gut reaction is that Nantwich could probably justify 2tph, Whitchurch 1tph and the rest unlikely but you'd be running it as a slow stopper anyway so you may as well stop at as many of the smaller stations as you can fit in an hourly service without costing you an extra unit. In another...
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    Car Transporter trains on WCML

    Having had a quick google image flick through UK and elsewhere, both up to date and historic, it appears there's a real mix. Some cars have protective coverings on some surfaces, some don't, and there appears to be just as many uncovered cars on open wagons and protected cars on covered wagons...
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    Why are XC allowed to continue?

    Despite what local politics might force people to say, Liverpool is not Manchester's Equivalent. Manchester is twice the size, far more economically valuable, and far better connected as a travel hub.
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    Bishops Lydeard - Frome/Westbury service?

    Yes, but if your proposal is the one triggering the upgrade, you'll need more benefits to cover those costs. Unless you get fantastically lucky and the renewal decides to reinstate double track on the Frome line as part of it's own project.
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    What other possibilities are there to improve capacity around Reading?

    NIMBY's make everything utter hell, that's just part of the way it works now. Running Round at Swindon or running up to Didcot are options - if a new chord is to go anywhere in that part of the world I'd say Westerleigh east chord would be most useful, and that's not going to pass a business...
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    Car Transporter trains on WCML

    Showrooms aren't going to want cars looking like they've been towed there by a gritter.

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