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What do the Gledholt Tunnel works consist of? Lowering the trackbed to give clearance for overhead wires? Huddersfield TWO is a long one. Presumably reconfiguring the track layout at the Leeds end. Will the new platforms be ready by then? Progress looks pretty rapid right now.

@WTT Gremlin that’s a really interesting post. I thought the GN was keen to electrify but just hadn’t got the money and, given its history of basket-case investment, struggled to raise any. Wasn’t one of the reasons for the merger with the GE and GC to facilitate borrowing for electrification...

This happened as recently as the late 1920s when the normally ultra-prudent Southern built the Wimbledon to Sutton line in a not very successful attempt to thwart UERL. 1763803676 Lots of coal traffic southwards from Nottingham turned right at Woodford Halse to make its way to Oxford and points...

Anyone know what they’ve been up to in this weekend’s blockade? I’d like to know what to look out for.

The 115s were very decent, and had a magnificent throaty roar on departure from Central and (later) Oxford Road. Their high density layout (doors at every seating bay) felt a bit out of place on a supposedly inter-city service though. The stoppers (Liverpool-Warrington and...

Oh yes! But the most recent videos and the significantly reduced number of orange suits exuded confidence that it would be ready on time 8-)

Surely they’d have known by then whether it was going to be ready though?

Trainline has just allowed me to book onto the 0722 Greenfield to Wakefield Kirkgate tomorrow morning so presumably everything’s on schedule.

Well I suppose we won’t know for certain till the trains start running again on Monday morning, but right now the whole project has been exemplary. Lots of forward planning obviously, but it’s clear that they haven’t skimped on resourcing it properly either. Aside from the actual project work...

Yeah everything stops there and I can’t see that ever changing. I don’t think the Penistone bay could have been lengthened without moving P1 (old).

Please ignore the first paragraph of #9,611 - having looked further at the plan of the completed layout it’s obvious that there isn’t a platform on the western edge of the bridge and a track span is indeed still missing.

On my last visit a couple of days ago it looked like all three steel spans were in. What is missing is the concrete platform extension on the west side; i.e. next to The Sportsman. Since the platform that this will form the end of hasn’t been built yet I suppose it can wait; also the metal part...

The new yard at Hillhouse is enormous. Presumably track to access it will be laid during the Huddersfield station closure in September.

When was the line through Bicester singled? I vaguely remember going through there in the early 70s with the line still double but a huge gap between the platforms where the through lines had already gone.

My grandmother grew up in Beaconsfield and was a teenager when the GW/GC Joint Line was being built. Her older sister played the harmonium in the navvies’ wooden mission church. From what she used to tell me it sounded as though working methods had hardly changed since the golden age of railway...