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EWR can mean 3 different organisations/groups: 1. East West Rail Consortium. The group of councils and companies that has been campaigning since 1995. They are the ones that came up with the maps showing Norwich and Ipswich 2. East West Rail Alliance. Formed in 2015 by Network Rail, Atkins...

You are right. It is why GTR favoured a 4 platform station but obviously that's more expensive which is why they are going for 2 platforms. It will have to be the slows as that's what the existing services use.

As posted on another thread, the local councillor has given an update. See https://www.bedfordindependent.co.uk/wixams-station-shunts-one-step-closer-to-2024-opening/

The original outline planning permission (from 1999) had the station further north than the obvious place where those houses now are

Yes, Wixams station is still in Bedford Council's capital budget, including £1m for this financial year and £5.4m for next. See https://www.councillorsupport.bedford.gov.uk/documents/s53234/Item%2013.4%20Capital%20Programme%20and%20Appendices.pdf Approved by the full council on 3 Feb 2021. I...

It is now at https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/network-rail-begins-vital-work-at-market-harborough-in-step-towards-electrification Perhaps it wasn't there earlier because the text says that it is starting to-day.

eastwestrail.co.uk has been updated to-day. They now have 3 connection stages: 1. Oxford to Bletchley 2. Oxford to Bedford (including remodelling Bedford Station and major works at Bletchley) 3. Oxford to Cambridge They also say: "Delivering a reliable service for passengers is our top...

This announcement also appears to be a further delay to the western section as well. This time last year, the official line on eastwestrail.co.uk was that "the first services expected to start running by the end of 2023". That was changed in spring last year to be end of 2024 (fair enough with...

Yes the consultation document says Oxford to Cambridge time of 82 minutes.

The bit from the consultation document about option E said "If EWR were to serve Bedford Midland, this would require works to increase the capacity of the existing station and potentially re-model or re-locate the existing Bedford maintenance depot." I must admit I'm very surprised that this...

But they will take the number of trains through the core at the peak hour to 22/21. At this point they need to be operating in ATO mode (and with the traffic management system in place?). So my guess is that they will want to full rollout ATO and the traffic management system (doesn't need a...

Yes and I'd be very surprised if they were added this December since the Corby Electrics are due to be added then, so they'll want to keep changes in the Thameslink core to the minimum.

Bedford Borough Council have announced their Rail Investment Strategy. See https://www.bedford.gov.uk/news/Latest-News/2020-01-09-bedford-borough-council-launches-rail-investment-s/ "A railway station at the Wixams has always been part of the concept, and the Council is leading on the...

Sort of... They are the non-peak version of the peak only Luton to Orpington services. The old City Thameslink services were peak only.

The Elephant terminators/starters went with the May 18 timetable recast. Yes it is.

I've had a look at the weekday Midland Main Line Thameslink services. The 07:22 ex Bedford Thameslink Express service now goes to Brighton instead of Littlehampton. The 07:52 ex Bedford Thameslink Express now goes out of service at Gatwick instead of continuing to Three Bridges The 03:10 ex...

Yes. All 5 of the consulted routes were either South or North of Bedford and South or North of the original alignment at the East Coast mainline. See https://eastwestrail.co.uk/haveyoursay

The consultation document also includes the changes for Thameslink (on page 30) with the faster rush hour extra Thameslink trains going back to the originally planned patterns. Page 7 refers to extra peak stops on the EMR Intercity services without saying what they will be.

Doesn't the Traffic Management System also need to be implemented to go 24tph ? I haven't heard anything about how its implementation is going.

Doesn't anything more also need the Traffic Management System too? I haven't seen anything about the progress on that since early 2018 when it was behind schedule (and obviously not the priority at the time)