Recent content by WilloughbyGC

All up a fairly catastrophic case study in rail/road/utilities project management. Years late, staggering levels of local disruption, and so overbudget that the whole purpose of the project - a fifth platform and western entrance to relieve current congestion (not just future EWR services as the...

Very fair summary

Surely the Great Central wins hands down. Purpose-built, no level crossings, beautifully engineered. (that should trigger a few people on here....)

Three Cocks Junction (I'll get my coat)

That's exactly it - for a 'discrepancy' at one TOC about how drivers are contacted to become front page news on multiple newspapers this weekend illustrates what a disastrous own goal this is for Aslef, for LNER and for the railway as a whole. Instead of celebrating that a new and broadly...

no the election will be October or later I'm afraid. May only possible if the opinion polls narrow dramatically

Just spin from DAFT I'm afraid. Those 'contracts' are not even close to being actually tendered, and even if they were put out to tender tomorrow they wouldn't reach the shop floor for what, 3 years? That doesn't help Alstom, nor Hitachi or Siemens either. Not to mention their respective supply...

Does make you think though. If enhancements or renewals were under the same time pressure as NR are under at Nuneham Viaduct we might make rail projects affordable and attractive to politicians again. E.g. 'you can have a new footbridge at Garforth again but it must be delivered in 6 months and...

its worse than that for passengers with deliberate (or if I was feeling more charitable) useless misinformation. I was at Paddington this morning just before 0800. The NRE app was showing the 0832 to Bristol as running normally as on time. With the platforms devoid of IETs and the PIS screens...

If true its a particularly appalling example of value engineering. The dive under project is solely for freight to be diverted from the ECML, now even more important as HS2 will no longer relieve it. According to DfT the rail network has to be decarbonised by 2040, yet for freight there is no...

'if it really is an issue which i don't accept'. oh dear...

No it means that Alstom takes over Bombardier’s share of the JV for HS2 if that JV bid is successful in winning the tender. The high speed remedy for the UK means that in future high speed tenders Hitachi has the option to license the product it has jointly developed with Bombardier to compete...

Yes HQ is in Germany but UK and global companies are both tax domiciled in UK according to Companies House

But tax domiciled in the UK..https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09862744

true though the order for phase 1 are all classic compatible