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  1. brad465

    HS2 Old Oak Common

    Quelle surprise.
  2. brad465

    HS2 Old Oak Common

    Are there any plans to try and reduce journey times further west to compensate for all the GWR services being slowed down by the OOC calls to come (e.g. line speed bottleneck removals and/or general increases)? I recall they were supposed to do this for Thanet Parkway's opening, where line speed...
  3. brad465

    How many National Rail stations don't have gatelines? (estimates welcome)

    Maidstone is Kent's county town with 3 stations, but none of them have ticket barriers. Maidstone East in particular had refurbishment works done a few years ago and still didn't see barriers installed, presumably because the platform and exits' layout there is too awkward. There are also no...
  4. brad465

    Up through line at Newbury

    Presumably that means that is the water table, otherwise it would have been pumped out by now. If that is the case they should look at future work to make the area watertight.
  5. brad465

    Northern to install waiting shelters

    Is this part of the Government's levelling up policy? ;)
  6. brad465

    Public Accounts Committee report on HS2, Feb 2024

    "Consultancy, if you're not part of the solution, there's a lot of money to be made in prolonging the problem."
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    Is the section of gwml beteen Paddington and reading the worst maintained line in the country?

    So this afternoon there was a points' failure on the down main in the Slough area that meant the 12:00 PAD-BRI and 12:03 PAD-PNZ were stuck for nearly an hour waiting for a temporary fix to let them through. Other services went around on the relief lines with lesser delays, but these two were...
  8. brad465

    New Station calendar

    Yes I believe the plan is to have one station, I recall Long Sutton and Pitney old station site being considered as a rough midpoint between the two towns. I do wonder though how it would be served though if it ever opened: it may not be able to get London trains, and a new local service, while...
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    Is the section of gwml beteen Paddington and reading the worst maintained line in the country?

    The latest RAIL edition has a small section titled "Faults disrupt passengers GWML every day!" with a summary of the problems including 200 days with points failures, 175 days for broken rail, 97 days for signal failures and 90 days for damaged OHLE. It does say though in the year "to November...
  10. brad465

    When the slow line becomes the fast line

    It's at the Swanley end that the fast and slow designation confuses me: the main east of Swanley feeds into Swanley on the slows at 75mph, but to go to the "fasts" involves a 30mph crossover. Otherwise as mentioned already the line speeds are the same on both pairs through to Shortlands.
  11. brad465

    Yellow square at the end of the platform

    Don't stand there, similar to a yellow box on the road being don't stop there.
  12. brad465

    Carlisle Station Improvements

    That accommodation is going to cost an absolute fortune, student housing is costly enough as it is (I've managed to rent cheaper in later years after graduating while also earning a lot more than a student income), but being right next to an Intercity station is extremely attractive for...
  13. brad465

    Landslip at Crewkerne Tunnel - West of England Line closed.

    There was plenty of rain in the area yesterday which will have caused this latest landslip, but one has to wonder what works were actually done here last year given the issues its been having.
  14. brad465

    Disruption on HS1 due to signalling problems caused by flooding in the Thames Tunnel.

    Have the actual ironworks been cut somewhere? I know it was taken out of use when an old 373 was stored on the link, but the junction with the Chatham mainline seems to be in place still. I assume if a physical separation now exists it's somewhere part way along out of view of either end.
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    Disruption on HS1 due to signalling problems caused by flooding in the Thames Tunnel.

    And enthusiasts would be dropping what they were doing, booking last minute hotels and train travel where necessary and flocking to Kent to grab that opportunity! ;) More seriously it was only 8-10 years ago that a daily/weekly ECS movement occurred over the Fawkham jct link, in the form of a...
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    Landslip at Crewkerne Tunnel - West of England Line closed.

    Has that café closed? I used it back in July, although it did have limited opening hours so even if it is still open its access cannot be guaranteed.
  17. brad465

    Landslip at Crewkerne Tunnel - West of England Line closed.

    The line through Taunton was shut last night into this morning due to flooding, haven't seen exactly where but it was enough that both XC and GWR routes were not running. That's the current closure, according to Network Rail Yeovil to Axminster was shut from the 6-10 November, with details as...
  18. brad465

    Landslip at Crewkerne Tunnel - West of England Line closed.

    Is this not the same section of line recently closed through planned engineering works to stabilise the area?
  19. brad465

    Portishead approved

    Given that in the down direction trains have only just left Temple Meads, I would expect the timetabling to see a Portishead train leave very soon after a faster service, as is common where fast and slow services share tracks. The old relief line wouldn't be ideal for moving fast services onto...
  20. brad465

    Station rationalisation - those where a platform or two could easily be removed

    Taunton P1 (the west-facing bay) gets no real use, and even P6 (the east facing bay) can only be accessed through a reversing move outside the station, so is only used a handful of times; most terminating services from the east thus use P2 or P3. I suspect P6 will be even more redundant if the...

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