Cherry_Picker
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Ah, so the year 2186 then?
It's unquestionably better for the railway for the Sky Blues to be playing at Northampton, lots of Cheap day returns!
bbc said:More than £74m of government funding has been awarded to Coventry and Warwickshire to boost the local economy.
Projects include improving access to Coventry rail station and carrying out track and signalling works between Coventry and Nuneaton.
Where LM get the stock from is a different matter.
They could take the 153 off us on the Marston vale and let us have 2 x 150. That would mean taking the 150 of the Hereford line and transferring it away leaving one on depot for work.
Solved it AND got my self better train!
(Can they juggle workings to cover the loss of a 150 on Hereford runs? Do the new 350's free anything up?)
323's I believe. Not sure they will get to Hereford mind you
Wang a 47 on the front and they will go anywhere
. The hourly LM that reverses at Cov will continue to L Spa when the line is doubled and electrified as part of the Electric Spine, serving Kenilworth's new station. There is no chance of more services crossing WCML at Cov to get from L Spa to Nuneaton until a flyover is built at Cov.
It would be entirely on railway land, below the level of Spencer Park adjacent (apart from the OLE) and cause little disruption to services during construction, compared to a "dive under" that would mean digging up WMCL for months.
The slow progress is frustrating but I believe we'll get everything we want eventually, with the Electric Spine giving a boost in about 3 year's time. Then I'll go for a Coventry east station and Warwick Uni rail ring.
More likely, that you'll get the 153 off Cov/Nun, and it'll get your 150 and the 150 off Hereford services, which I think was the original plan.They could take the 153 off us on the Marston vale and let us have 2 x 150. That would mean taking the 150 of the Hereford line and transferring it away leaving one on depot for work.
Solved it AND got my self better train!
(Can they juggle workings to cover the loss of a 150 on Hereford runs? Do the new 350's free anything up?)
The Planner:
Redoubling the track north of Kenilworth is only complicated by the single track being in the middle of the trackbed so it has to be slewed to fit the second track. South of Ken there is a bit that was never double. Whether it gets doubled depends on demand. A stretch south of Cov was redoubled about 10 years ago as far as Gibbet Hill and more can be done incrementally as demand grows.
Nope, it was resignalled to higher than that (2007 i think?) just no justification for a higher linespeed. Electric spine wont do anything to the signalling as it is too new and whats there now will allow a fairly sizeable increase in traffic.I've looked at one set providing 2 tph but it's difficult. I think it's more like 12 miles Cov-Nun and the linespeed is only 45mph, probably due to signalling rather than track. That may be cured by the electric spine - when it comes.
A driver told me there's a lower limit (25mph?) on the Spon End viaduct. That may have been temporary. Let's try 75mph, 2 mins/station stop. That's 10 mins travel plus 6 mins stops making 16 mins each way. Doesn't work. Even 90mph = 8 mins + 6 mins stops leaves only 1 minute for the driver to have a pee and sprint to the other end of the train. Electric stock could reduce the station stops to 1.5 mins, leaving 2.5 mins to reverse at the terminals. Well, maybe, but not in the short term.