Early in the New Year but probably not badged as GRIP3...GRIP 3 was also due about now on Lostock-Wigan electrification.
North Pennine Route ?The CP6 Electrification and the Transpennine Route Upgrade scheme is now NPR.
North Pennine Route ?
Wow spot the brain cell ! I am sorry - I really should have known thatI believe Northern Powerhouse Rail...
The CP6 Electrification and the Transpennine Route Upgrade scheme is now NPR.
It also includes upgrades on North Transpennine and the electrification was frozen so that the scope of NPR could be decided as they didn't want to install overheads then have to move them with track alterations.
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- A new Trans Pennine rail line that connects Manchester and Leeds via Bradford;
- Leeds to Newcastle via HS2 junction at Garforth and upgrades to the East Coast Mainline
It is understood that Network Rail have submitted their report to the Department for Transport on the options for TRU as expected on the 14th December.
The DfT have confirmed that the submission by Network Rail on December 14th will initially remain private to allow the Secretary of State ample opportunity to be briefed on the findings. However, it is Rail North’s intention to request sight of the entire report and in collaboration with Rail North Partner authorities (including WYCA) and Transport for the North, develop a pan view/input to Government on a preferred outcome, output and scheme scope:
With regards to the next steps the indicative timeline for decision making is as follows:
- 14 December 2017: Price, programme and options received by Department for Transport, based on the original 16 July 2016 Client Development Remit;
- December 2017 – Spring 2018: development and assessment of the best value and affordable combination of options and impact on the franchises, with support from Rail North Partnership;
- Spring 2018: Department to engage with Rail North/Transport for the North on how to achieve the agreed objectives for TRU and possible interaction with other schemes;
- Summer 2018: Consideration of stakeholder views and interactions with other schemes by DfT, and recommendation for preferred option, ubject to Ministerial and Treasury approval;
- Summer/Autumn 2018: Approvals for progressing TRU to the next stage – outline design; and
- 2019: Following outline design outcomes -decision on final scope, full business case and investment authority, through DfT and HMT
I wonder if the GRIP 3 report includes any improvements west of Stalybridge, or was it produced on the assumption that Victoria to Stalybridge would have been completed already.
I know that according to the current CP5 enhancements plan that Victoria to Stalybridge electrification has disappeared from one project and not appeared in the scope of the TRU project, but (I hope) that is just due to the embarrassingly shoddy quality of that document. It was noticeable in the youtube presentation on the TRU project much discussed earlier in this thread, that Manchester to Stalybridge upgrades were now at least implicitly included e.g. in the proposed speed profile.
As part of the Trans-Pennine Route Upgrade, Network Rail are upgrading bridges, tunnels, track, junctions and signalling.
Work will be done assessing 38 level crossings along the route, removing trees and installing fencing.
Network Rail are also installing overhead line equipment so that electric trains can run along the route.
I know that according to the current CP5 enhancements plan that Victoria to Stalybridge electrification has disappeared from one project and not appeared in the scope of the TRU project, but (I hope) that is just due to the embarrassingly shoddy quality of that document. It was noticeable in the youtube presentation on the TRU project much discussed earlier in this thread, that Manchester to Stalybridge upgrades were now at least implicitly included e.g. in the proposed speed profile.
There is an item that is still named Manchester-Stalybridge but its content has been reduced to a few hundred yards eastward from Victoria. See page 9 of the document, right-hand column.It is still there, under North of England Programmes (LNW) with and EIS of May 18 - or is that something different?
There is an item that is still named Manchester-Stalybridge but its content has been reduced to a few hundred yards eastward from Victoria. See page 9 of the document, right-hand column.
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Network Rail has developed options for TRU ranging from
–no electrification
–partial electrification
–to full electrification
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Options to be presented to DfT Dec 2017
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DfT to confirm preferred option Spring 2018
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Indications are that favoured option is a partial/hybrid electrification proposal.
blurry but interesting looking graph if anyone can work out its significance.
A little more detail from a presentation to Kirklees Scrutiny Committee (courtesy of the Huddersfield Station thread)
So after all the flack for Grayling on this forum, it looks as if Network Rail are putting forward a hybrid solution.. There is then a slide entitled "What will the hybrid solution be?" unfortunately with no text, but with pictures of a battery powered train and a blurry but interesting looking graph if anyone can work out its significance.
A little more detail from a presentation to Kirklees Scrutiny Committee (courtesy of the Huddersfield Station thread)
So after all the flack for Grayling on this forum, it looks as if Network Rail are putting forward a hybrid solution.. There is then a slide entitled "What will the hybrid solution be?" unfortunately with no text, but with pictures of a battery powered train and a blurry but interesting looking graph if anyone can work out its significance.
Is that the Dewsbury bound side?Not sure this is related to Trans-Pennine Route Upgrade, but this morning I've seen that the wilderness behind platform 2 at Batley has been cleared, with a small squadron of the orange army apparently inspecting the ground. The good news is that it feels more open, the bad news is that it now is rather exposed on a day like today!
I certainly wasn't aware of any plans to use this space to create a line bypassing the platform, and to do so would impact linespeeds as well as duplicating an existing overtaking point at Mirfield.
More likely it's to improve access for the upgrade itself, whatever shape that may take.
Yes, the Westbound/"up" side.Is that the Dewsbury bound side?
Would that much need to be done though? I'm sure it wouldn't be too much work to alter the platform to make the platform face round the back and make the current platform the through line.