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Today, from a distance I believe I noticed pylons on the stretch between Church Fenton and A162 at Barkston Ash. Too far away to photo from A162 (at least with my phone).

Local Whatsapp group informs between 26 May to 3 June the bridge at Barkston Ash over the A162 will be replaced. Consequently the A162 will be closed. This replaces the failed attempt during Christmas 23 when high winds prevented safe working.

Re the ‘pause’ at White Rose. It’s only a couple of weeks ago that WYCA announced a tramline to the White Rose Centre (the one from St James’s Hospital via Leeds City Centre and Elland Road). So maybe this needs factoring in to the White Rose plan, either to integrate with the White Rose Rail...

Presumably the wiring of the Normanton lines north of Church Fenton facilitates further electrification through Sherburn, Milford Junction, Castleford and Wakefield Kirkgate to Dewsbury. This route avoids any Leeds East bottleneck for through freight and potentially increases cross Pennine...

Well there might be a case for Huddersfield-Wakefield K-Normanton-Castleford-Church Fenton-York electric service perhaps with one stop in Wakefield for fast trains as the current route via Leeds seems to attract more stopping stations (eg White Rose and East Leeds/Thorpe Park), which can only...

Gascoigne Wood East to Sherburn in Elmet and Church Fenton also has mileage as ECML diversion and York-Selby-Hull electric route. Also ECML York-Hambleton North to East – Selby.

Interesting plan from 2017 which needs joining up to any mass transit system Leeds City Council/WYCA/WYTA need to develop in order to catch up with the rest of the modern world and to overcome 20 years of failure. Currently their focus seems to be on bikes and buses (Leeds City Council), and...

Is the York - Church Fenton electrification work continuing during the virus lockdown ?

As published in The Times on 12 Feb 2020 as part of the HS2 announcement article: 'A series of upgrades of existing lines will also be revealed by the government in the coming weeks, including a commitment to fully electrify the trans- Pennine line from Manchester to Leeds and York. The scheme...

Is this Project the first stage in Electrification of Manchester to Leeds/ York / Selby ? A Project to accurately quantify the scope/feasibility in order to avoid cost overruns ? Or to get the detail in order to decide how to proceed at all ...

If it’s needed at all White Rose is more of a tram stop rather than another stopping point on what is currently the main Trans-Pennine route. It really is time Leeds got a grip of it’s transport infrastructure strategy and stopped this over cautious bit by bit approach which reflects badly on...

The bit by bit announcements of the Transpennine Route Upgrade is rather underwhelming for what should be significant and momentous announcements. Presumably the Huddersfield to Leeds announcement is the responsibility of a West of Leeds team, whereas Leeds/York/Selby rests with the still...

York to Church Fenton only doesn’t seem to have much application. However, if Hambleton South to West was electrified as part of Leeds – York and Selby (as it presumably would be to provide alternative electric services to Leeds from ECML), it becomes relatively low cost to include the...

Well now, it seems the exciting prospect of mains electric/diesel bi-mode is on the horizon for trans-pennine services. Before this gets set in concrete, and CG said last year passengers didn’t care so long as the trains got you there, or something similar, it is worth saying that to major on...

Well, electrification is said to go beyond Micklefield to Selby which passes Hambleton Junction and Gascoigne Wood. Consequently electric trains from ECML south can get to Leeds and beyond via Hambleton West, and could also use an electric ECML diversion route to York if the short stretch from...