Recent content by liam456

Yes indeed, part of the return to service remit includes earthworks on both sides - work to support the cranes while they lift the carriages further from the track as well as a permanent remediation to the embankment on the down side. Also included is around 400m worth of track renewal for...

That is over underbridge 674, it has a path connecting Landport Road to another path that follows the course of the Ouse. It's also what connects the main working compound to the actual derailment site which are on opposite sides of the railway formation in this location.

It came in useful during the Charing Cross blockade as it allowed for the storage of RRV's (Road-Rail Vehicles) and other maintenance vehicles very close to the renewal site, ready to go for when the possession started.

Take a look at that nice timber yard on the down side of Cooksbridge station...

No, the rearmost bogie of the first carriage of the second unit was derailed. Everything 'forward' of that never left the rails. I don't know whether the front unit can be driven away however.

Yes indeed, led by VolkerFitzpatrick/VolkerWessels mainly.

Sources close to the recovery operation indicate that lifting will occur on Wednesday.

The new Platform 5 at Stevenage gives the Hertford Loop services somewhere to get out of the way of the mainline without disrupting trains. Early and late services continue to go to Letchworth for the sidings there I think.

Even by this maths, I would think there are far more than 1000 days of delays of a moderate magnitude since the commissioning of Preston/Carlisle PSB plus the kit north of the border in WSSC. Although, thinking about it further, the level crossings would need upgrading to AHBC-X standard or...

Indeed! This picture would be from the bridge in-between those that span Southwark Street and Redcross Way. In the delivery plan, track panels were delivered to a patch of open land near these bridges (see satellite views) then lifted via crane to the track at this location and finally...

As someone who has worked with the team that manages the structures within the Anglia Route of Network Rail, the state of some of the structures along this section of the Suffragette line (ELR: TAH2) shows that complete reconstruction is necessary. These are old structures with some large...

Almost caught up in Cambridge yesterday with three of the last four services cancelled due to 'faults on a train' Are Hornsey depot struggling to turn out 379's or was I just unlucky? Especially considering the last Cambridge cruiser to King's Cross was cancelled leading to large potential delay...

Extremely annoying for me yesterday. Especially since it looked as if the Canonbury Curve was available for use to reverse services at Finsbury Park. One train failed and two stuck behind it shouldn't lead to the entire collapse of the evening peak service.

Trains that travel from NL to/from BE on the high speed line have always been known as Intercity direct trains with a corresponding supplement. ICE trains have always been known to be the services to/from DE which operate on the conventional network.

I'm very interested to see how these next business units will work in practice as all of the previous ones have been where TOC and NR Route overlap (almost!) perfectly. For Thameslink for example, what happens to the rest of the East Midlands Route north of Bedford? Or Sussex Route away from...