Recent content by Frank Scully

Moot points really as this country is in the grip of a chronic nimby epidemic and we'll soon be building nothing anywhere so your land designations are quite safe.

This is my entirely unrealistic and never-to-be funded-in-my-lifetime plan for a new build high speed route which would connect the far south west and south coast with Gatwick/London Victoria and the international station at Ashford, allowing for interchange with HS1. It opens up a new...

Double the landmass but not double the population or number of cars.

(Unsure if this should be filed under International instead...) Why is only 38% of the UK rail network electrified? Looking at the stats here European Rail Electrification Stats, we fall well behind all our peer countries (we're even behind places like Turkey and Serbia fgs). It's not as if...

Noob here, be kind... Is there any online resource that describes the blockers and possible solutions for increasing linespeed on the Plymouth-PZ section? What would be needed to get the journey down to 1hr? Fully appreciate all the well-trodden arguments about population size, urban...

On the proposed routing of HS2, why is Birmingham accessed from a spur? Similarly Leeds appears to be at the end of spur rather than a through station.

As an ex employee of the previous owners of the site, Safeway, can I add my two cents here. The site is adjacent to the main line, just west of the Long Rock Depot. IIRC, the depot itself is also surrounded by light commercial development. You would need to deal with numerous land owners and...

While it is laudable that NR are taking the Dawlish problem seriously, I am extremely disappointed that NR have publicly discounted building the Dawlish avoiding line already. That must be the fastest internal route planning and costing exercise ever taken :wink: If we imagine a scenario...

Excellent news. I would like to see intercity services from Penzance/Bristol/Swansea running directly into Heathrow.

Can I just say that as an ex resident of west Cornwall, the suggestion that the disused and extremely indirect Tamar Valley route should be reinstated as a replacement for the Dawlish section is just not acceptable. The people of Cornwall and south Devon have a long-standing aspiration for a...