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That would be the New Homes Bonus, currently under review following CSR2015, with a reduction of the overall £1.2bn bill by £800m p.a. being the Government's preferred option. Further, councils just do not have the sorts of resources you allude to; reserves have been depleted dramatically...

I was involved, albeit at a junior level, in the demand forecasting for Supertram so remember well the dog days of the "mets" and the legacy PTEs and PTAs. What did for them, and therefore any local strategic planning of rail services, was the 1993 Railways Act. Only now in England, with the...

If what jcollins says above is true, and Mr Miles is of course well-informed, then Mr Shooter will need to be even more imaginative in securing outlets for the 'D' Train. If outright sales cannot be found then levering in further finance from his current backers, for example, would allow him to...

Commercial reality dictates that you'll be proven right. At best, as things stand, I can see a small number ordered for Cornish branches and possibly AGA Suffolk and Norfolk branches too but, beyond that, it is difficult to see where a substantial UK order for Class 230s would materialise from...

http://www.networkrail.co.uk/news/2015/dec/contracts-alliance-second-phase-EWR/ Obviously duplicating much of what is reported upthread in the EWR presser but the interesting extra point is the timetable for the TWAO application. THC

My pleasure Dave and thank you for your kind words. I mainly post on London Reconnections but will continue to share developments on here as they become available. I keep my eye very closely on this project, as you can probably tell. :) THC

Again with the speculation. :roll: My earlier post linking to the TfL Board report was here and in two other prominent forums so I don't know where you got your info from. As for the "current hunger for cuts", we have a Spending Review due with the Autumn Statement on 25 November. The...

Do you really think they'll care what the (us?) anoraks think? THC

Following the project’s transfer to TfL, there’s a paper going to TfL Board on 4 November. Its main recommendations are: 1. reconfirmation and reauthorisation of previous approvals and agreements with HCC and others so that the project can proceed; 2. the confirmation of the project funding...

These two London Reconnections articles will give you chapter and verse on the reasons why. In essence, TfL Rail is an interim brand that will avoid dilution of the impact of Crossrail brand launch...

Too much speculation here - and while that's enjoyable in and of itself, let's think about the reality. Vivarail has its hands full with the relatively simple D stock conversions, assuming (and that's a leap of faith) that Mr Shooter manages to attract sufficient orders. There is little chance...

I thought that the old BR found the right recipe for naming such stations when it opened Haddenham and Thame Parkway, which encompassed both the name of the place in which it was located and the larger nearby settlement it aimed to serve. That's why I was slightly disappointed to see Chiltern...

Inclined to agree with the scepticism but that fact that a service from WJ north of Aylesbury is a stated aspiration of the DfT - which, after all, would actually be the primary funder - leads me to believe that there is something in it. My guess it's to do with growth in the MKSM area, with...

Interestingly enough, this is not quite true. In the labyrinthine approvals process for the Metropolitan line extension (née Croxley Rail Link), a letter from the DfT to the GLA of 30 March this year (see p18) states that, as a condition of DfT funding: So, no further information on...

They've been there for a few years now. Visible from the London Overground between Hoxton and SHS, on the old Broad Street formation. If the D-Train doesn't work out then a great home for the prototype would be the Epping & Ongar Railway. While D stock never worked that far, at least the...

Indeed so. Also reported here albeit with an erroneous Oxford Parkway opening date reported. THC

At the risk of a "whoosh", there is a West Grinstead, although it is some miles distant from East Grinstead. It even had a station on the Shoreham-Christ's Hospital line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Grinstead_railway_station THC

Spare me the lecture. I think after a lifetime of visiting family and friends in NI and studying and working there I'm well able to deduce how "those people who have suffered the effects of sectarianism" deal with it. For the most part it is through humour, gallows or otherwise, and not...

Oh come on, there is nothing "sectarian" about my comment. It was clearly light-hearted or had the smiley passed you by? I have never heard the word "Orangeman" used in the context that the previous poster used it and the reference to the OO was the first thing that came to mind. THC

Is it? Where's the market? You know as well as I do that outer Metroland is an area of very high car ownership and the existing rail market is prinicpally commuter-based. I just don't see where the latent demand you imply will come from. THC