Recent content by MarkRedon

Section 3.98 of the backup document states: Less emphasis here on new housing opportunities, more on the hoped-for economic boost. But encouraging in the sense that building to Cambridge still figures in Government thinking.

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There's perhaps another small market for Northallerton-originating customers. I once rode in a well-used DMU from Northallerton to Redmire on a snowy day (about 1982?) for a Dales Rail style ramble. Might justify monthly or weekly journeys?

I tried to see what the planned ruling linespeed on Bletchley to Bedford will be on the assumption that the rationalised, reduced number of stations, approach is taken. I couldn't find a number, but sincerely hope that it comfortably exceeds 60 mph / near 100 kph given the significant upgrade...

I used it to interchange Altrincham - S - S - Leeds every Friday evening and every Monday morning in the mid-70's. Bonus: the café-bar at Stalybridge, since service frequencies were very poor then.

i have just complained, not very gently, on the gov.uk website about this further delay to a part of the Phase 1 proposal. In particular - no proper explanation has been provided for a six-month further delay. Is it unreasonable for me to feel miffed, cross, angry...?

Concerning bridge or tunnel, see the separate document https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1035650/a-fixed-link-between-great-britain-and-northern-ireland-technical-feasibility.pdf This can be summarised as it is, just about...

Brilliant news. Even better: you don't need to find a penny or spend a single sou - they're free. The development of railways seems sometimes glacially slow. But my first experiences of Shipley were of the slow reverse beyond the station that characterised stopping services between Skipton and...

Concerning the line over the Garabit viaduct. Currently and since last December no service, but potential good news at https://www.ladepeche.fr/2021/05/14/un-pacte-etat-regions-pour-sauver-le-train-aubrac-9544412.php on 14/05/2021: " Depuis plusieurs années, la ligne de chemin de fer qui relie...

https://www.networkrailconsulting.com/news-and-publications/news/network-rail-launches-new-ultrasonic-test-unit/ UTU test is therefore resumably ultrasonic test unit. This suggests later work on the Meldon Quarry extension, perhaps linked to freight extension a little later than the hourly...

There's a fairly well informed article in the Bedford Independent of 04/03/2021 entitled "Oxford-Cambridge Arc: How will East-West rail impact Bedford?". It's available at: https://www.bedfordindependent.co.uk/oxford-cambridge-arc-how-will-east-west-rail-impact-bedford/ The Rail Freight Group...

It would be good to have the choice of such a lack of resilience. Today, we have Dawlish only. Reopening even as far as Okehampton is a very positive development. In fact, s'wonderful.

Except that now you've all but told me, we both know? 8-) Actually, my point concerns the potential returns on via-Bradford and via-Huddersfield options. Perhaps pouring money into Bradford will never work - but it might, and there are ways to evaluate likely outcomes. After that, good...

Ah yes, the Rennes metro - which I know very well, since I have lived in a tower block not a hundred metres from a Ligne B station under construction! The Rennes metro system, two lines, will have cost about 4 billion € or a little more - in almost flat terrain and in a very young city with...

The economic case for it was awful. Money was spent on the bridge at much the same time that British Rail was being starved of cash. The latter led to massive capital disinvestment - a successful BR manager was one who closed something. Great, that saved money - that has since had to be spent...