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For those with an hour to spare there is a lot of interesting information in this panel talk (for sure they are coming very much from one side) that addresses many of the points made in the last pages here https://www.greensignals.org/podcast/trains-to-europe-are-lower-fares-and-more-trains-coming/

I would suspect many potential commuters coming from north of Bury would simply switch to Metrolink at Bury unless the travel time to Victoria via Heywood was competitive. Assuming Metrolink would have the capacity to absorb extra numbers

Thankyou, comprehensive reply as always

I suspect such a scheme if it ever happened would last up to the point where capacity went off stream as it was better to not maintain it

"go fast by avoiding going slow"

Isn't this more a case of supply (with gas generators mostly turned off) > demand? Batteries will presumably make the drop less pronounced as they will shift supply to more profitable periods of the day (basically avoiding that supply of renewables > demand). I would be interested to know the...

"No brainer" in the context of forums such as this generally means "I would like / want it to happen" [so have made no thought to how viable it actually would be]

track access fees etc... (and I would have thought costs of staffing St P vs Stratford) seem all rather irrelevant unless a way to solve Stratford capacity as frequently mentioned by Bald Rick is found

Do we have any idea how well Virgin are progressing in the "secure access to other rail networks, and obtain safety approvals from ORR and the relevant authorities in the EU." part?

On the face of it building near well connected stations makes better sense, not least that for the developer they should be more desirable. I would hope a default yes doesn't mean default approval for 'bad' schemes However I bet an unintended consequence will be to up the level of resistance to...

If I were NR I would not make too much noise on this, at least externally, until the project is much closer to completion. Especially if you already know there could be doubts on keeping to the timing for Neville Hill work

I did miss that 'scheduled' stops was mentioned, so presumably 'unscheduled' in times of disruption can start at some point, hopefully sooner vs later else not much point having built the thing!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/our-rail-team-has-successfully-completed-share-7493262539653570560-DVYq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAYbzDMByKNL6_cIOol3j8aMhobwaHH5Dls Got to say that I find it poor in the extreme that it seems the new platform will still not get used for...

Political reality is not the same as actual fact. Welsh government (nationalist) will say 'this is a Welsh railway and we want to run trains on it to Bristol, not London ... who are Westminster to overrule us...?' (Ignoring that they need to ask UK government permission to use non Welsh tracks...

EWR has, probably quite accurately, been described as a housing project with a railway attached