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GGrimsby town replied to the thread HS2 and the APT: The Scottish case for tilt!.I agree. When Chris Gibb presented his proposals I think it assumed that the WCML would be significantly upgraded to allow 140mph for a...
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GGrimsby town replied to the thread HS2 and the APT: The Scottish case for tilt!.I'm not saying it's necessarily viable to build a HS line all the way to Scotland but I'd dispute that the travel market is tiny...
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GGrimsby town replied to the thread HS2 could cost up to £102.7bn and trains won't start until at least 2036.There'll be some abstraction from western Coventry at least given it'll be similar/quicker to get a bus to HS2 than central Coventry...
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GGrimsby town replied to the thread Getting the most out of the new Alstom units for TPE?.I think that shows part of the problem though. Yes capacity has been increased but it's been by constantly changing the trains operating...
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GGrimsby town replied to the thread Getting the most out of the new Alstom units for TPE?.No it's not possible for us to know for certain what forecast has been used and I could be wrong. There's plenty of history to show that...
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GGrimsby town replied to the thread Getting the most out of the new Alstom units for TPE?.The problem with demand for North Transpennine is that there isn't an accurate baseline of demand to forecast from. Pre-Covid a lot of...
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GGrimsby town replied to the thread Getting the most out of the new Alstom units for TPE?.Hull is planned to go to 2 trains per hour so there is an increase in capacity. Middlesbrough services will see a slight reduction in...
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GGrimsby town replied to the thread Getting the most out of the new Alstom units for TPE?.Of course they'd but put to use. I'm not disputing that but is the quantum of units going to fit with their alternative or is it going...
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GGrimsby town replied to the thread Getting the most out of the new Alstom units for TPE?.The plans for NPR are different to HS2 though. We're talking about far smaller diversions from the classic route from Marsden to...
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GGrimsby town replied to the thread Getting the most out of the new Alstom units for TPE?.Of course people said the same about Crossrail, TRU and HS2 and they're all happening/completed to a large extent. As far as I know, the...
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GGrimsby town replied to the thread Getting the most out of the new Alstom units for TPE?.Burnham is a big backer of NPR. It's not rocket science as to what the requirements will be. They've been fairly consistent over the...
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GGrimsby town replied to the thread Getting the most out of the new Alstom units for TPE?.Yes because you're can't commit funding that far into the future but the government's plan is to deliver this, £1.1bn in development...
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GGrimsby town replied to the thread Getting the most out of the new Alstom units for TPE?.The government is spending money on developing a business case for NPR currently and Rachel Reeves committed £45 billion to it. Doesn't...
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GGrimsby town replied to the thread Getting the most out of the new Alstom units for TPE?.At least some of the services that these new trains are planned to operate on will be diverted on to NPR. The classic line will maintain...
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GGrimsby town replied to the thread Getting the most out of the new Alstom units for TPE?.Seems a strange decision to me. For one, 110mph seems to slow for the ambitions for new highspeed rail infrastructure in the north which...