Recent content by Cliff Pine

Newsflash - Norton Bridge Rail Enhancement - Option C has been selected - 'm gutted. Looks like surround sound on it's way.

Jason - Lets just say Im a local! I went to most recent presentation at Norton Bridge on Friday and discussed proposals with technical manager for NR - who I hadn't seen before. . He said that option C was only ever put forward, to demonstrate why you CAN'T have the new lines running east of the...

Have you been able to view any 3D topographic visuals for the three options? I found the presentation to be very poorly set-out, and there were a number of fundamental contradictions, between NW staff and the consultation documents. It seems very difficult to envisage the plans - compare that to...

I wonder whether Network Rail has considered the option of simply lifting the fast lines up on a bridge on their current alignment & bringing the Stone branch under them to connect with the slow lines. Have they capacity modelled that option - it would be far cheaper.

Do you think that the rail operators will feel that Option C will cause them greater disruption than A & B? Network Rail appear to be suggesting that all three options are in the same ballpark figure of £200m - which seems slightly incredulous.....