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Is the Galashiels/Tweedbank feeder station under construction? South of the line, west of Winston Road?

Minimum chord length 600m according to the Proofs of Evidence - Engineering and Design...

Nothing new as far as I can see. Drill and blast has been used much more recently than Victorian times. For example it was used for the hard rock sections of the new tunnels for the westbound carriageway of the A55 in North Wales in the late 1980s and early 90s. It's TBMs that are relatively...

It's now 10 days since this question was asked, but it seems worth adding that the actual flyover structure, in the angle between the Leeds and Wakefield lines at Ravensthorpe, is visible in an excellent new picture on Robert Stenhouse's Flickr site. The picture also seems to show that the...

Most notable (though not strictly for this thread) was two weeks ago on the HS2 delta junction, when each of the two Water Orton viaducts had a whole span placed over the northbound M42 using self-propelled modular transporters. Motorway closed from 2100 Friday, spans on the move before 0300...

The last I heard, it is not currently proposed to install any track, signalling or OLE on the west<->north curve of the HS2 delta junction (because of the lack of capacity in the Handsacre/Stafford area), so your suggestion would depend on the completion of not just TRU but also the western arm...

Two new photographs on Andrew Wikinson's Flickr site, taken today (Friday), show the new bridge at Calder Road open to pedestrians and with blacktop being laid for vehicles. A caption says Perhaps the old Leeds Road and Colne Bridge Road bridges are due for the chop at the same time?

One thing I've noticed is that the replacement Calder Road bridge as built seems to be further east, closer to the old bridge that it is replacing, than shown on any plans I've seen. Maybe this is a change that was made during the public inquiry into the TWAO application. Published plans tend...

Surely people haven't already forgotten the notoriously high eventual cost of the tram-train electrification, which was said to be because the dual voltage/current capability required new designs and new design standards for everything. So there can be no doubt that the capability is there.

Seems very similar to what he said in his last appearance before the Commons transport select committee in May.

Yes but the Neville Hill block can't happen until the new depot at Shipley is open. A recent Sarah Bell video shows they are working vigorously at that but are still at the earthmoving stage.

Just that you appeared to be saying Oswestry is in Wales. To say nothing of the fact that you're proposing 40 miles of new railway through mountains to combine with 120 miles of existing mostly slow railway, to serve not much population.

Oswestry isn't in Wales.

Parallel single tracks means two tracks side-by side that look to the casual observer like double track, but at some point they separate and go to two different destinations. Instead of being an up line and a down line, each line is two-way, to and from its respective destination, with no...

There are loops and sidings just south of Dalmeny station that could add to the stk's to be wired. There may also be a runoff along the curve towards Winchburgh. No. Nothing heard in over two years. We really need to be hearing something about battery train procurement.

From Google satellite view, the distance along the route from the most westerly existing 4-track portal at Carrick Knowe to the south end of the Forth Bridge approach viaduct just north of Dalmeny station seems to be within a whisker of 10km, so that works out to an average separation of one...

Where my aunt and uncle used to live, the nearby streets were named after the sons of the head of the company that built all the houses.

They say the highway and footpath at Roughtown Road bridge will be unaltered, but seem not to have noticed that there is no footpath.

A reminder that, as announced in #8192, the detailed proposals for Mossley, and the Stalybridge - Diggle section more generally, are due to go online tomorrow at the following address, with drop-in events on Wednesday to Friday: http://www.networkrail.co.uk/stalybridgetodiggle

It also includes a major part of 2B, minus the Crewe tunnel (a big de-speccing) and minus the part that is common with NPR (already made part of NPR by the government). Also I must have missed where it says anything about bite-sized chunks. Doesn't it just have one chunk for 2A and another for...