It is owned by the Fishguard & Rosslare Railways & Harbours Company.
What do you mean by “restricted manual” here? I believe that’s usually a term used on LU systems.
That doesn’t affect the track ownership through Warwick Parkway station though.
Staffed by LU operating the panel installed 1992/93.
Heathrow Spur is run by NR signallers located at the GW signalling centre at Didcot - Thames Valley Signalling Centre (TVSC). Not sure about Crossrail, I think they have their own TfL employed signallers in their route control centre (RCC) for the Crossrail central operating section, ie the non-NR infrastructure. But that control centre is located in its own rooms within the NR ROC at Romford.
It's a term used on the underground:
Yes I thought so. None of SWR’s current fleet has any of that stuff, it’s all manually driven by following the signals. So nothing much changes if they head off the main line to Swanage, just a change from colour lights to semaphore.
That would just be normal or manual driving. With the exception of the Elizabeth Line and Thameslink cores (the latter only if the driver has received the required training), all other mainline trains are driven manually.
That railway along with the Waterloo and City transferred from BRB to LUL at privatisation of BR in 1995.
The transfer took effect from 1 April 1994.
That makes sense in the context of a self-contained metro line with full in-cab signalling and continuous supervision of train speeds, e.g. the DLR or some (but not all) underground lines.
Thanks, so when Railtrack was created as a distinct legal entity from BRB. Makes sense as obviously BRB transferred the assets to the new company.
Exactly. Do all the legal stuff in one go and it doesn't make (potential) complications with later privatisation sales.
NYM railway has an operator code (NY) and uses conventional headcodes. Supertram doesn’t have an operator codes and doesn’t use NR headcodes iirc
Not quite the same, but the operator of Island Line has been responsible for day-to-day track maintenance ever since privatisation... Technically it's a Network Rail route, but NR are totally hands-off unless there is major infrastructure work (such as on Ryde pier).Since March 2020, Welsh Government have owned the Core Valley lines north of Cardiff Queen Street to Treherbert, Aberdare, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, as well as the City line between Ninian Park and Radyr, and Cardiff Queen Street to Coryton.
Transport for Wales manages the lines on behalf of Welsh Govt, and TfW employ Amey-Keolis to maintain and upgrade the infrastructure.
So TfW are running their own services on their own infrastructure. I wonder if this vertically integrated model of ownership will catch on?
Technically that's not entirely true. The Spa Valley operate over Birchden Junction to Eridge a line wholly owned by Network Rail but not connected to the national network. I think the whole Wensleydale railway is leased from Network Rail.
Supertram has to have a Train Id for that section of the route over Network Rail tracks. For instance, the 1531 from Rotherham Parkgate to Sheffield is 2A59.
Hasn't the Northern City Line recently moved over to a form of automated signalling?
ETCS Level 2 in-cab signalling but that doesn’t on its own mean ATO is included.
Not quite - it’s on AWS/TPWS at the moment. ETCS comes later.
There have been a number news articles saying it’s recently commissioned, however I agree that doesn’t mean it’s in use.
