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    MML Electrification: progress updates

    The wooden pegs have advanced a bit further North. From my observations yesterday (DBY-STP), they are now up to around milepost 127, although I couldn't see anything around Derby station or Etches Park.
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    MML Electrification: progress updates

    Took a return trip from Derby to St Pancras on Friday. Coming back I could see the wooden pegs stretching northwards until somewhere between Sawley Level Crossing and Spondon, so up to about Milepost 122.
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    MML Electrification: progress updates

    My observations form a return trip yesterday: Wigston Jn - Market Harborough: Evidence of recent lineside de-vegetation. Of course, this may be nothing to do with electrification and just routine work. Market Harborough - Glendon Jn: Masts up for most of this section, apart from maybe 3 gaps...
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    Uses for ex-Grand Central Mk4s?

    Would love to see the loco swap reinstated at New Street but don't think that's likely to happen!
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    Great Western Electrification Progress

    Do we know when passenger trains will be using the wires west of Bristol Parkway? I'm going on a journey next week which includes Bristol Parkway to Cardiff so would be good to know what to watch out for!
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    Derby Resignalling - 22 July - 7 October 2018

    Does anyone know what is going to happen to Derby PSB? Trent PSB seems (from the outside at least) to have been abandoned...
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    Derby Resignalling - 22 July - 7 October 2018

    View of Derby north today: Trackwork seems to be mostly complete. They were fitting a guard rail on the line to Chad sidings, the down main (?) still needs its guard rail fitting. There have been a few tampers around the north end of the station over the last week, and the Orange Army!
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    Derby Resignalling - 22 July - 7 October 2018

    Views of North end of Derby station today:
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