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The problem with continuing to use Handsacre is that Shugborough/Colwich bottleneck isn't just the two trains per hour going to/from Stoke/Manchester, its the two track section through Shugborough AND the need for southbound slow services need to cross the northbound fast lines to reach the slow...

I'm 100% there would be an additonal service if there was capacity. It was included in Arriva bid for Northern in 2016. I expect there's a lot of suppressed demand from the short formed trains and poor frequency. There's also the potential for additonal stations between Altrincham and Stockport...

She constantly moans about the lack of services on the Mid-Cheshire line but also opposes the one project that would allow more services on the Mid-Cheshire line....

I like that idea. It allows the Lincoln trains to serve Meadowhall without having to reverse at Sheffield and there would appear to be space to grade seperate. It would simplify the tram/tram-train operations to Woodhouse if they didn't have to share the line with heavy rail too.

He doesn't. He's talking in both direction terms throughout the document and compares it to the 30tph that the Elizabeth Line could potentially reach (but probably won't) which would obviously be 30 trains in each direction. The guy is clueless.

Sorry it was at least 60 trains per hour. 30 trains, of varying type and journey purpose, per hour on a single track. No non-metro line has ever got anywhere near that number. Not to mention that he doesn't cost in the £10s billions to upgrade lines either side of the tunnel to accommodate...

Why was Andrew Gilligan a transport advisor though? Basically because he was mates with Boris Johnson. Before he became a cycling advisor to Johnson, he'd never worked in transport and had no academic transport qualifications. He has very little understanding of rail operations and I'd...

Andrew Gilligan is a journalist not a rail expert. If he has any expertise in transport, it's in active travel and not rail. I'd challenge that fact too though. Take that quote. Significant increases in capacity can be delivered in months or week using modern rolling stock. What rollingstock...

There were studies done for the alternatives. Its never going to match Avanti for speed and Marylebone is a very constrained station with little room to expand. One of the biggest issues with the southern WCML is that the fast lines are completely full until Rugby. The only way to solve that...

Major upgrades are also hugely disruptive. You only have to look at how passenger figures have dropped for TPE while nearly every other operator is seeing increased usage. The North TPE route has alternative diversionary routes that aren't at capacity too, which has meant trains have still run...

I'm hoping we'll get something like this. Grade separating and speed improvements at South Kirkby Junction in the way you've suggested makes sense to me, as does 4 tracking through Fitzwilliam as Network rail suggested in the past. Grade separation at Hare Park Junction might also make sense but...

So more tracks need to be built, particularly if there isn't going to be an alternative HS2 style route on that corridor. I'm hoping that the early NPR upgrade at Sheffield includes additional track/tracks through to Dore. I think I read that the first phase would allow more trains to run from...

I like that idea but the only issue is you're adding another service between Sheffield and Birmingham which might be a struggle. Hopefully NPR will accommodate 3 additional services from Leeds to Sheffield all of which can be extended to the Midlands with one to Nottingham, one to Leicester (and...

It does seem remarkably sensible for once. Seems to suggest that they've got some expertise in and it's not just ideas from Houchen and his staff. I did see that a former transport planning colleague was working there so maybe they're finally building a transport authority. Teesside has pretty...

Extending the EMR services would primarly be about better connections between West Yorkshire and the East Midlands. As others have pointed out its unlikely to happen currently due to capacity constraints but NPR aims to upgrade and electrify Sheffield-Leeds which will make journey times more...

Not really an answer to my question but never mind. Firstly, the service started a couple of months ago and demand doesn't appear out of thin air. Also, Northern aren't exactly awash with units at the moment. There could quite easily be more demand for the service but, in the short term, that's...

Possibly but we're still at least 5 years out, so I doubt the 350s would be in great condition if left to sit for that time. I'd also be shocked if Northern operate the fast Sheffield-Leeds services long term. The government will probably want to fast services between major cities to be seen as...

There will be but I'd be surprised if that offsets the benefits of operating through services connecting Leeds to the likes of Leicester. I also think it's possible that there could be upgrades that up the linespeed to above 100mph between Sheffield and Leeds.

The NPR plan is to increase the fast Leeds to Sheffield services to up to 4 trains per hour. Northern's existing fleet isn't going to be able to cover that, so new rollingstock will be needed anyway. Using bi-modes won't make a huge difference to the electrification business case. Cancelling...

Extending the St Pancras to Sheffield service to Leeds sounds like a pretty good idea in theory. It'd probably need additonal units but that could be spun as an early benefit of the government's investment in NPR. More rollingstock is going to be needed to operate additonal fast services...