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Steer, the rebadged consultancy have produced a report for HS1 quantifying the benefits of the route both internationally and domestically. They also cite the capacity for expansion both domestic and international. Dyan Crowther, the Chief Executive of High Speed set the scene as follows...

These are troubled times - in the absence of football and racing - one particular group is really suffering. I refer, of course, to book-makers. So why don't we suggest that they offer odds on the success of the various "Let's Reverse the Beeching Cuts". It really would be a game of skill - in...

https://www.railfuture.org.uk/article1855-Relieving-Castlefield The proposed solution consists of three elements: The closure of Trafford Park Container Depot; A replacement depot on the site of the former Carrington Refinery and a chord between the WCML ( L&NWR in old money) and the Hazel...

Typically how many movements are there per day over the line Heaton Norris to Ashton Moss - e.g. Stock Movements to and from Newton Heath, Pellets to Drax. Domestic waste to ?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/31/fiddlers-ferry-sse-coal-power-station-warrington The Power Hall and eight cooling towers of Fiddlers Ferry Power Station - Widnes by Mwmbwls, on Flickr The end of coal at Fiddlers Ferry will herald a further change in the landscape after the...

More pressing concerns are dominating everybody's thoughts at the moment. Whatever the outcome of the current crisis things will never quite be the same again. Our economic capacity may be inhibited and projects, many of which we assiduously scrutinise and debate may find themselves altered in...

The idea of reopening the railway line from Bangor to Caernarfon reappears on a periodic basis. The recent Government announcement concerning the remediation of lines “cut by Dr. Beeching” has triggered a further round of media articles. It was last discussed here in 2013...

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/enterprise/repoint/ The University of Loughborough have released an interesting video having gone back to basics on the causes of point failure. Their solution is elegant. A last sentence contains a breath taking claim and as a bean-counter I learnt the hard way to...

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/opinion/paul-salveson-bring-back-the-lancashire-and-yorkshire-railway-and-let-s-have-one-service-for-the-north-1-9564258 Paul Salveson suggests local regional franchises - one for the south Pennines and one for the North. What's not to like?

I am not sure where to post this question - so mods please feel free to move as necessary. Is there a peak month for the renewal of annual season tickets - for example at the start of the calendar or academic year or in the last month before annual ticket price increases apply. In the case of...

Where will these 158 units be based. Heaton/Blackburn?

Railway Gazette reports: An image of the proposed Innovation Campus can be found here. http://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/plan-open-new-toton-station-1049057 The construction of such a campus means that Toton Yard facilities will need to be recreated elsewhere. Where do forum...

The January 2018 issue of Rail Engineer contains an article outlining the science and economics of hydrogen as a fuel source for the railways. This is something the here today/possibly gone tomorrow Secretary of State for Transport has cited as the “next big thing” in justifying his decisions...

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/child-ticket-proof.81798/#post-1416465 This topic has been covered before. But today in the Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5179307/Timpsons-boss-slams-Virgin-Trains-stranding-girl-15.html...

Earlier this week there were serious signalling problems between Manchester Oxford Road and Slade Lane resulting in the continued operation of trains but with northbound trains using the south bound tracks and vice versa. Later in the day there were a series of cancellations resulting in...

Over the years, travelling into Manchester and Liverpool I cannot help but notice that station car parks are getting fuller and fuller earlier in the day as motorists frustrated by city centre and motorway congestion are adopting a strategy of park and ride. In some places, such as Appely Bridge...

A letter from a Guardian Reader. This I suspect is not uncommon. It shows up yet another variant of the difficulties of seat reservations of long distance service that also double as outer suburban services. VTEC are now finding themselves in a similar position to Cross Country. There is no...

Richard Clinnick writing in Rail magazine reports that : Are the new hoppers a continuation order for the WH Davis design now used on the Drax services?

There is an hourly service from Luton and St Albans through to the Sutton Loop. In 2009 however there was a proposal to terminate all Sutton Loop services in the new west side bays at Blackfriars. Can anybody remember when and why the proposal to terminate Sutton Loop trains at Blackfriars which...

Network Rail are reporting that work to upgrade the footbridge at Penmaenmawr station on the North Wales coastline has been completed as part of their Railway Upgrade Plan. The footbridge, which is over 100 years-old, was removed earlier this year, to undergo specialist refurbishment works and...