TheGrew
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In a similar vein to Gareth Dennis' excellent video on the Morpeth curve I have been thinking about places where either a much quicker alignment or capacity could be created by taking out pinch points.
I'm not thinking of something as 'grand' as HS2 acting as a bypass for the southern WCML but more thinking of the Selby diversion or the bypass alignment Gareth suggests for Morpeth. What would people like to see if they could go fully crayonista?
To start I was thinking:
I'm not thinking of something as 'grand' as HS2 acting as a bypass for the southern WCML but more thinking of the Selby diversion or the bypass alignment Gareth suggests for Morpeth. What would people like to see if they could go fully crayonista?
To start I was thinking:
- Some sort of Trans-Lake District base tunnel with portals near Oxenholme and north of Penrith. To both speed up long-distance passenger and freight trains (the latter of course being helped by bypassing Shap summit).
- A 'Dewsbury Bypass' for the Huddersfield Line by tunneling from Heaton Lodge junction to just north of Cottingley. With the aim principally to speed up journey times between Manchester and Leeds.
- Moving Colwich junction closer to Rugeley Trent Valley, grade separating it and running the Colwich-Stone line east of the Haywoods to remove a major conflict area due to the flat junction and to increase speeds.
- A 'York Bypass' (which I appreciate sort of exists) running pretty much parallel to A1237. This is mainly for freight as most passenger services would still call at York.