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Hhwl replied to the thread Derailment at Wickford - Friday 14th August 2026.There are no obvious signs of buckling in the images but there are plenty of small undulations. Lots to measure and feed into VAMPIRE to...
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Hhwl replied to the thread Are the recent derailments indicative of poor performance from Network Rail?.RAIB have said they will issue a ststement early next week. In this investigation there is substancially more to check than a typical...
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Hhwl replied to the thread How will Gatwick station cope with a second runway?.I was talking about thread commentators not having moved on and being stuck in the past rather than real users who have moved on! Or...
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Hhwl replied to the thread Battery boost for grid feeders?.[As some one who has actually done quite a bit of rail battery modelling] Depending on the route, electrification at Termini can...
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Hhwl replied to the thread Lewes derailment - Thursday 13th August.Indeed, the LBSCR were renowned for using what would now (or at any time in the last 90-100 years) be regarded as unsuitable material...
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Hhwl replied to the thread Lewes derailment - Thursday 13th August.Agreed it is a short circuiting bar for the 3rd rail (an alien concept for most of the network).
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Hhwl replied to the thread How will Gatwick station cope with a second runway?.Unfortunately if you maximise the tph on the fast lines through East Croydon and Clapham you cannot stop all of those services at either...
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Hhwl replied to the thread How will Gatwick station cope with a second runway?.As most of the uplifted use would involve Clapham Jn and East Croydon (mostly for interchange) so there won't be any real change in...
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Hhwl replied to the thread How will Gatwick station cope with a second runway?.Gatwick's plan is focused on investment in short haul growth e.g. northern takeoff only runway for 2x 3hour blocks per day for A32x and...
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Hhwl replied to the thread How will Gatwick station cope with a second runway?.Returning GatEx to 4tph "as was" pre covid won't "keep as many air passengers as possible off the 'ordinary' trains" though. The...
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Hhwl replied to the thread HS2 TBM Progress.There are at least 3 weeks (at fastest pace) of segments so it isn't that. As a thought Madeline is in roughly the right place for the...
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Hhwl replied to the thread Class 810 for East Midlands Railway Construction/Introduction Updates.Having a loop test track at Long Marston is probably far more useful for iterative fault finding that is now Hitachi's main focus (all...
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Hhwl replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).I didn't say one phase lost, I said 1 phase struggling, there is a big difference! The problems occur when one phase is suffering not...
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Hhwl replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).Neutral faults are another harder to spot issue that DNOs will have to face up to resolving on ageing local infrastructure, it won't be...
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Hhwl replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).It should just be circuit breaker or switch gear that good cooked (effectively doing their job instead of more expensive stuff getting...