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we need An up to date statement from Noel Dolphyn (of Furrer & Frei)) I think. He usually posts on twitter...Bob

sounds like old news is the test with the ally alloy conductor, reported by Dolphyn, continuing??? +

white house undy so what then now stops them running electric through the big tunnel?? Call for Mr Dolphyn

argh the perils of the Sharpness Railway Bridge... but on a good day you can 'walk' ( ish} from Purton to Purton I was told

## moving to an ally alloy(?) catenary and then retesting... could be proving wacky??? Is there an update from Dolphyn and friends on whether the contact wire .changes are adequately successful? it would be good to get this issue behind us.

Noel Dolphyn of F & F seemed to be implying that the tunnel section under the river was working /energised, but just needed testing - is that not so??

n new government might then feel optimistic enough to announce extension to Swansea...(And Bromsgrove to Worcester)

Is the pan up through the Severn TunneL?? Cant see this on the RTT log

is the 25kv line through the tunnel under the Severn now giving adequate service?? . (Where is the juice sourced from?? we are not short of fat wires in the 10 miles around

Isnt ally rather chemically active . make yer own battery Why doesnt the aluminium wire rot even quicker in the steel and/or copper system

Noel Dolphin is from Furrer and Frey I gather, ..so probably good source and good news

was any wonderwork done by the swiss (F&F??)??

but still tripping??

what is the official state of the wires in the severn tunnel???

Er the Great Spring is fresh, not salt I think

The Severn Tunnel is a geological Joker. Every body (including Sir John Hawkshaw) worried about the deep water channel, (the shoots), where the tunnel was blasted through the carboniferous (iirc) and is pretty stable. its the crappy leaky rock, the littoral margins either side, where the Great...

Typically for this country when a new bridge was built not that long ago, it was built as road only - again. In most other European countries, the equivalent bridge would have been built as a double decker with the trains underneath the road. Salt-water and 25kv are not likely to mix well …...

Well winter is well on now - are the 323s working well for traction?? (Someone commented above that the cross-city line already had a poor reputation for traction in autumn...)

Good News, and welcome after all the heartache. (But speedup of the year (50 percent) is doubtless Bromsgrove to Barnt Green. where the comparative silence of the 323s climbing through the greenery and viewed across the valley above Pike Pool makes up somewhat for the loss of the long view...

I was thinking more of the rampant greenery around Vigo Bridge... or nearer home the climb up to the A38 at Tytherington quarry - would the wires stretch from Winterbourne over to Thornbury ...