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From Midlothian View: https://www.midlothianview.com/news/borders-railway-electrification-bid-revealed/ So two stretches of wiring. At the north end, wires from the existing wires at Newcraighall to a point SW of Sheriffhall Mains. At the south end, from the south of Bowshank tunnel to the...

How much has been published about proposed feeder station sites for HS2 phases 1, 2a and 2b? I seem to remember noticing some proposed autotransformer sites on the phase 2b plans but I was concentrating on other aspects at the time. Is there a list anywhere?

I think this is a significant enough development to deserve a thread of its own. A short while ago Marty82 posted, in the thread "Potential rail improvements around Aberdeen and North East Scotland", this link to a planning application by Network Rail to Aberdeen City Council...

Has any bridge or structure newly built over a UK railway since, say, 1930 ever had to be rebuilt or have its deck raised to provide electrical clearance for subsequent overhead electrification of the railway? I'm not counting parapets that need to be raised to make it safer for people on the...

The Guardian website is claiming that Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, has privately promised to drop the Golborne spur. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/06/senior-tory-graham-brady-grant-shapps-privately-assured-hs2-branch-scrapped Unique event?: at this moment the top two...

Hartlepool to get its second platform back https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-60887677

The UK government's "UK Connectivity Review", headed by Sir Peter Hendy, has published its final report: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/union-connectivity-review-final-report Hitherto the Scottish and Welsh governments have been very hostile to the way the UK government has gone...

I just missed an item on BBC Look North (Leeds) that I think was about Bradford NPR station, so I did a web news search. Apparently an announcement is to be made today (this is not government approval!)...

The current issue of Rail magazine (923) has an article on the Deltics. At the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 80s, after being displaced from the top ECML services, they were used elsewhere for a few years before being withdrawn. On page 63, left column, it says: It's not clear how...

Wales & Borders is the latest Network Rail "Route" to issue a press release about its CP6 renewals and maintenance proposals. https://www.networkrail.co.uk/feeds/network-rails-2billion-plan-to-provide-a-better-railway-for-passengers-in-wales-and-borders-confirmed/ interesting about Barmouth...

Now there are four class 80x threads I have no idea which one to place this question in! It's not geographically specific. I'll compromise by posting it in two of them. On page 83 of the October Modern Railways therE's a photograph of the driver's control panel. Item 9 is "snow brake...

Roger Ford has four pages (30-33) in the new (October) Modern Railways on electromagnetic compatibility issues with class 80x and signalling/telecoms equipment.

At one time the word "weekdays" meant Mondays to Saturdays inclusive. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that this usage ended with the coming of the twentieth century, but I seem to remember it continued in BR timetables into the 1960s or even early 70s. Does anyone know exactly when BR...

I thought there was a thread about the recent announcement that unspecified improvements to the ECML would go ahead, but I can't find it, so I'll start a new one for this item. The T&W Act Order for Werrington grade separation north of Peterborough has been approved...

From the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2018/jul/18/hs2-accused-of-breaching-cycle-crossing-commitments-along-high-speed-route

Chrisyd on the MML electrification thread in the main forum has posted this press release, which seems worth repeating here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hs2-ltd-to-undertake-development-works-for-electrification-of-the-midland-main-line Does this mean it will be charged to the HS2...

BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-44695730

This press release has appeared on Network Rail's site. I can't find an existing suitable thread. https://www.networkrail.co.uk/feeds/network-rail-completes-two-key-milestones-ahead-of-new-intercity-express-services/ I was unaware until now that the booster transformers were incompatible...

Arising from something that came up in another thread about station names, what UK stations are named after people, or named after things named after people? James Cook University Hospital springs to mind.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/15/mps-call-for-legal-action-over-shocking-hs2-payouts The report itself is here...