Syston to Sheet Stores/Trent East is now cleared for W10, restricted to slow lines only Syston to Ratcliffe due to the fast line bridge at Loughborough. Bridge 94, the next brick bridge north of this one (which is 88) is restricted to 25mph for W10 trains.
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londonmidland
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Trying not to get sidetracked but as soon as things go slightly wrong, the Leicester area becomes a big bottleneck.
I’ve noticed that the additional freight services have to manoeuvre the extremely slow 10mph curve at Syston North(?) Jn.
This causes delays if there is an XC service behind it, or if there is an XC or another freight waiting to cross over from the MML, from the Leicester direction, towards Peterborough.
This then has a knock on effect to the northbound EMR services.
There’s definitely a capacity issue between Wigston and Syston.
I’ve noticed that the additional freight services have to manoeuvre the extremely slow 10mph curve at Syston North(?) Jn.
This causes delays if there is an XC service behind it, or if there is an XC or another freight waiting to cross over from the MML, from the Leicester direction, towards Peterborough.
This then has a knock on effect to the northbound EMR services.
There’s definitely a capacity issue between Wigston and Syston.
zwk500
Veteran Member
One Network Rail were aware of at least 6 years ago:
[Link to Leicester Area Strategic Advice, authored in 2020]
That has always been the case.
edwin_m
Veteran Member
On the grand scale of things a slow curve at Syston North is a win compared with the previous route over to the West Midlands and back, including passing through the Syston-Wigston bottleneck.
zwk500
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Especially as the Syston North curve is double track, as opposed to the single-line south curve, and joins the MML once it's back to 4 tracks so freight doesn't have to hit a gap in the Intercity traffic.