Recent content by Haydn1971

So, 200m, is that 8x 25m for classic compatibility or some odd thing like

So, 200m, is that 8x 25m for classic compatibility or some odd thing like 22m driving cars and 26m carriages?

There's some local discussion on the 17:53 service removal on the Huddersfield to Sheffield service - The hourly service leaves around xx:09, about 11 minutes after the service from Sheffield gets into Huddersfield - I'm not overly familiar with the service, but it appears to run as a two train...

Brilliant ! Just what I needed, thank you

Thanks CAF397

Hi, has anyone on here aware of a level crossing with a high level wigwag placed above the usual level - i.e. a second unit synced to the lower unit - I've a site with visibility issues that could benefit from a high level "secondary" unit, but I can't find any examples or find anything that...

This talk of a Hope Valley base tunnel reminds me of the proposal to slam a motorway up the Hope Valley back in the building heyday. Annoyingly I never took a photo of the albeit low detail alignment proposal that I found in a drawer when I worked at Derbyshire CC - The same drawer had options...

You extend to what you expect usage is likely to be in the design timeframe - I’d argue that 4 carriage stoppers would be a reasonable at this point, 6 carriage stoppers are many years, probably decades away... it’s like road building, you build a new road for 20-25 year forecast, you don’t...

Need to find the drawing out that I did in 1994 when I worked at SCC and were looking for DfT funding, it wasn’t much different to the plans from 1968/71 for the A61(M) - More here on my website. http://www.haydnvernals.co.uk/roads/urbanmot.htm

My local prospective council out and the rest of the local Labour group are pitching a “tram train” for Beighton Village, i.e. to the old Beighton Station then a vague idea of linking back to Halfway Tram stop via a stop at Killamarsh I’d guess.... I’ve asked if any economic case has been...

You are aware that the Piccadilly alignment for HS2 is almost a loop from the south that hooks almost to face west ? That’s kinda 180 degrees out of alignment for Airport to Leeds, much more than a slight S shape. Ideally a HS2/NPR needs to be intersecting Piccadilly at 90 degrees, probably in...

To be fair, building the link to Manchester was always going to happen first, it’s the least contentious bit of 2b ! The question now is will that western leg stop at Manchester Airport until the NPR bit is more pinned down in terms of how it passes through central Manchester? The current...

My key supporting argument several years back for a Heathrow Spur was to dilute the number of HS2 trains going into Euston, not because of accommodation at Euston, more a case of where do you take the passengers from there without major upgrades to the underground and provision of Crossrail 2...

There’s been a really good suggestion by one of the forum members that the 22x fleets could be reformed into a single four car and seven car fleet, the four car units generally used as a four plus four unit, giving a similar capacity as a seven car unit - whole fleet refurbished, good until...

The whole Sheffield HS2 Station debacle was a real face palm moment for local politics here for me in Sheffield - Whats been offered currently is an improvement on what Sheffield has, but sadly, not the huge step change that Meadowhall HS2 offered for Sheffield/Rotherham/Barnsley. I’m not sure...