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What projects (new trains, electrification, new stations etc) are you most looking forward to that are still currently planned to complete in 2021 (even if you suspect they may be delayed)?
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What projects (new trains, electrification, new stations etc) are you most looking forward to that are still currently planned to complete in 2021 (even if you suspect they may be delayed)?
Let’s try to keep it positive
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So many to choose from
The Northern Line Extension is probably the closest infrastructure project to me. Others due this year include the Werrington diveunder. And maybe we might see Crossrail at last?
New services on existing track scheduled to start this year :
Ebbw Vale Line from Newport
Wolverhampton -Walsall via Willenhall
Okehampton
Trains: Classes 197, 484, 730 and 803 are due this year. Classes 196, 701 and 777 should all have entered service last year. Of these seven, only the 777 is a completely new design for the UK, so I'll go with that.
But perhaps the one I'm most looking forward to is the restoration of the Brighton Belle, although that project seems to have gone quiet recently - the web page has not been updated for over a year, and is still suggesting services could start in August 2020.
So many to choose from
The Northern Line Extension is probably the closest infrastructure project to me. Others due this year include the Werrington diveunder. And maybe we might see Crossrail at last?
New services on existing track scheduled to start this year :
Ebbw Vale Line from Newport
Wolverhampton -Walsall via Willenhall
Okehampton
Trains: Classes 197, 484, 730 and 803 are due this year. Classes 196, 701 and 777 should all have entered service last year. Of these seven, only the 777 is a completely new design for the UK, so I'll go with that.
But perhaps the one I'm most looking forward to is the restoration of the Brighton Belle, although that project seems to have gone quiet recently - the web page has not been updated for over a year, and is still suggesting services could start in August 2020.
I was wondering about Brighton Belle recently too. I would just like to be able to travel around the UK by train again, anywhere. Take care and stay safe everyone.
What projects (new trains, electrification, new stations etc) are you most looking forward to that are still currently planned to complete in 2021 (even if you suspect they may be delayed)?
769 on North Downs Line for the juxtaposition of diesel engine and electric traction motor noise and seeing how they tackle the route relative to the Turbos.
I guess the best hope for anyone keen to ride the line in 2021 is that some level of "Trial Operations involving people being invited onto trains and stations to test real-time service scenarios" occurs before the end of the year.
Can't think of any specific projects (that would be delivered this year) but I am looking forward to the unveiling of the Intergrated Rail Plan and the proposed Leeds - Manchester route of NPHR
Completing the projects we had to postpone last year, and taking a good advantage of my position to make the solutions to issues poised and proposed better than those who've come before me.
Personally i just want to be able to travel around the network safely again without the fear of someone breathing/coughing something nasty into the air and standing on a station photoing trains. But the the Werrington dive under definitely another new line to ride on.
Likely completion of some stations nearby during 2021:
New Western Crossrail ticket hall and gate line buildings, new accessible footbridges:
Acton Main Line, Ealing Broadway, West Ealing, Southall, Hayes & Harlington, West Drayton. Rebuild of existing ticket hall at Taplow.
Likely completion of some stations nearby during 2021:
New Western Crossrail ticket hall and gate line buildings, new accessible footbridges:
Acton Main Line, Ealing Broadway, West Ealing, Southall, Hayes & Harlington, West Drayton. Rebuild of existing ticket hall at Taplow.
I like to see Reading Green Park completed. According to Network Rail they completed Maghull north in 9 months and Horden in six months form start on site. When I looked this week the RGP platforms were complete structurally just awaiting edging and tarmac. So I assume this can all be done within 12 months.
As a resident of Westhoughton, Class 769's going into service on the Alderley Edge-Southport route. Sadly I'm due to move away in the next couple of months so I probably won't be around to see them go live!
Personally i just want to be able to travel around the network safely again without the fear of someone breathing/coughing something nasty into the air
You'd best avoid all train travel ever again, because the normal coughs/colds/flu/whatever are transmitted the same way.
I was far more ill with a flu-like virus I caught on a plane in 2019 than I was last year with Covid (well what I think was Covid - had several of the symptoms, but there was no mass testing back then).
