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It's to start in May 2015: Elin Jones (@ElinCeredigion) tweeted at 8:07 PM on Mon, Apr 07, 2014: Just had confirmation of hourly am & evening train services Aber -Shrewsbury. Mon-Sat. 2 new Sun return services. #itsbeenalongtimecoming (https://twitter.com/ElinCeredigion/status/453247768166170624)

It appears ERTMS has fallen over again. At least one train on a 25 mph stagger, and not an engine/unit fault.

Yes, they are linked by fibre. Some time ago, the fibre at one of the GSM-R masts up the coast section was severed by contractors. It brought down ERTMS across the Cambrian, even down to Sutton Bridge Jct, until the break could be repaired. The Cambrian's GSM-R is also controlled from Swindon...

There's a tamper drag tonight. 97/3 L/E Coleham to Talerddig to drag the tamper from Talerddig to Aberystwyth. Oh, about that 3-day ERTMS outage last month, while it was due to power cuts at various GSM-R masts, the problem appears to be worse than that. It seems that it takes only one GSM-R...

I've just read this thread in its entirety. Most interesting, especially on the reasons for the continued closure of the Welshpool dynamic loop. On the subject of the blockade earlier this month on the Aberystwyth branch, this was due to track relaying between Llandre (Pen-y-Wern bridge)...

ERTMS is still dead today. NR hope to have it working by tomorrow, in order that ATW can run trains.

It depends. When it works, it seems to work relatively well, but when something goes wrong with it, the whole Cambrian network suffers. Rather incredibly, it has multiple points of failure that bring down the entire ERTMS system. In this wet weather, there have been multiple axle counter...

From my understanding of where the tractor and trailer ended up, and that 52823's gangway and second-man's side of the cab hit the rear of the trailer (which is from an eye-witness report), the tractor was already clear of the crossing and the trailer was more than halfway across. Even if the...

What, using the phone to ask for permission to cross with his tractor parked on the railway line?

There have been two previous train>tractor incidents at Buttington Hall Farm crossing. The last was 2004 when the impact derailed the 158. The previous was in the 1990s when a 150 hit a reversing Massey Ferguson tractor and swiped the weights off the front of it. The 150 driver was badly...

http://railwayherald.com/uknews/cambrian-coast-charter-working-cancelled "Peter Watkinson of Statesman Rail has advised RH that the 'Welsh Mountain Statesman' from Sheffield to Aberystwyth on 6th July has been cancelled. He was advised by DB Schenker on Thursday afternoon that they were...

Absolutely. I know where you're coming from. As for the reliability of our sources at "the coalface," let's just say they've not been proven incorrect yet.

That's sort of the feedback we've been getting, but I'm referring to other issues that ERTMS has brought up, and how these things have been managed.

Perhaps I was being too obtuse. By that I mean the various staff members who work on the railway locally and not in some plush office in Cardiff/Crewe/Brum/wherever. In other words, the people at the coal face. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Indeed Gareth. Like you, we trust...

Did I say it was exclusively Network Rail? Er, no, I didn't. Why do you find it funny that railway staff give us this gen? Do you also find it so amusing that in all probability NR p1ssed £100k up the wall? We don't. We keep a close eye on Network Rail's waste in this area, and we're generally...

That figure came from our contacts on the ground, and we have many of them in this area.

A little bird told me that as it had been left out in the open and not installed for a certain amount of time, it had to be scrapped/dismantled/couldn't be used, and that it cost £100,000. P1ssed right down the drain.

It was originally planned that the end of the dynamic loop would be halfway down the straight between the Grove Farm and Forden station level crossing. Indeed, the turnout was dumped here for 18 months ready to be installed. Then some bright spark decided the end of the loop should be on Fron...

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