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Would IETs make sense as a suitable replacement to the ageing HST stock on Cross Country ?

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/mml-electrification-progress-updates.110445/ Great, once the wires get north of leicester it should take much less time to get to sheffield, hopefully wires should be up completely by 2025-2026 with no more obstacles

Which sections of railway in the uk (outside HS1) would be the most ideal parts to incorporate 140mph running.

For older members on the forum, do you recall any serious teething issues in the HST which affected reliability when the units first entered passenger revenue, and if so which ones

Why can’t the west london line be converted to thameslink, and hourly brighton/horsham services run to milton keynes? genuinely curious

Was just doing some research into the Intercity 250 programme and how it was the progenitor to HS2 before it got axed. In a hypothetical scenario how would Intercity 250 have affected British rail as a government owned business, and how would it have affected the WCML’s capacity issues, the...

Would the GW electrification scheme have made more sense if it was planned to head down to exeter through the bristol line and the B&H line

Had a read of the new civil engineer blog this morning and in 2022 only 2.2km of track was electrified nationally, which is less than 1% of the expected amount which totals to about 448km annually. In Scotland electrification seems to be happening at a much more consistent rate with more miles...

What would the state of the railways be had nationalisation never ended in the 1990s, what infrastuctural developments were halted or not carried out due to privatisation, and what rolling stock would be on the railways, and finally would the rail be in a better state, would projects like...

As EMR has placed orders for new class 810 trains to replace ageing fleet on the mainline, to have enough trains to cope with the retiring of class 91s + Mk4s, would it make sense for LNER to place a bid for a few class 810 trains in 9 car formations to compliment the 800s currently on service...