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The Planner's latest activity
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TThe Planner replied to the thread Should Birmingham International railway station have more direct trains to other parts of Birmingham?.Rugby Parkway is on the Northampton line, so doesn't matter. Coventry East is on the lesser used side of the corridor.
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TThe Planner replied to the thread Global Warming - Time to Crack on with Electrification?.That's doing some heavy lifting. They haven't, the couldn't run north of Crewe currently with electrics.
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TThe Planner replied to the thread Should Birmingham International railway station have more direct trains to other parts of Birmingham?.HS2 is doing that. The second pair of tracks are just not next to the existing ones. Its all very well saying it needs four tracking...
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TThe Planner replied to the thread Global Warming - Time to Crack on with Electrification?.Politics
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TThe Planner replied to the thread Should Birmingham International railway station have more direct trains to other parts of Birmingham?.Capacity is still an issue.
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TThe Planner replied to the thread Could timetables be better matched to post-Covid travel patterns?.Considering we are close to running just two timetables (Sunday and not Sunday), I doubt anyone will want the complications of it.
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TThe Planner replied to the thread GWR Diversions over East West Rail - Nov 2026.Marylebone was never on the cards. Can't fit a 10 car 800 in there either.
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TThe Planner replied to the thread GWR Diversions over East West Rail - Nov 2026.3 minutes is standard platform reoccupation for everywhere to be fair.
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TThe Planner replied to the thread Preston Station - really poor and needs urgent improvement.Deepdale? That's going back a bit, must be 35 years since that saw a train of any sort.
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TThe Planner replied to the thread Preston Station - really poor and needs urgent improvement.Nothing uses P7, its a goods line. Colne trains go out of the bays.
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TThe Planner replied to the thread Preston Station - really poor and needs urgent improvement.Won't meet standards to be used now I expect in terms of lighting, signage etc..
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TThe Planner replied to the thread Preston Station - really poor and needs urgent improvement.Its not quite as simple, the up and down goods line converge along the platform, the parcels platform is a loop. Nothing will happen...
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TThe Planner replied to the thread Might the Whitehaven tunnel issues result in closure? Could Whitehaven be brought back into use? And other speculation on this issue....Its been put out of use until May 2027 officially, though nothing to stop it opening earlier if some sort of rapid solution is found.
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TThe Planner replied to the thread Preston Station - really poor and needs urgent improvement.7 isn't passenger rated. That would be the likely easiest to do of all the suggestions.
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TThe Planner replied to the thread GWR accused of disrupting Wales-England train links by Welsh Government.Depends on how the rights have been applied, whether they are firm, or contingent rights and for how long.