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I'd say it's quite a new change, electric traction with discontinuities of 10s of miles. This is quite apart from Core Valley Lines where the longest stretch off is about 4 miles. These new schemes have all sorts of considerations like how the islands that are wired correspond to a single dual...

And that's without any of the inevitable delays and complications in testing and commissioning that befall most fleets, especially one that is instituting a completely new operational model Same with Fife Circle really

Do we think they might just be attempting to operate the old royal mail paths and giving up on the class 321 operations?

Thankyou for the hard work, it's well appreciated. One day or another I ought to send in a list regarding neutral sections not yet added but just haven't gotten round to it.

Ah that's good, at least they weren't intending to keep it this way

I'm sure many of you are familiar with it. It's a great resource for a wide range of interesting topics so I definitely appreciate the information on there. I typically use it for the Electrification Dates and Overhead Line Neutral Section lists. However it seems to have undergone some kind of...

I think if you were to do things in this way, it'd be better to have 400/50kV transformers at Eccles and then run the 25-0-25kV powerlines 25 miles in each direction. But at these distances it doesn't really seem sensible to me when you paralleling so much transmission grid infrastructure...

This may be one of the strangest traction power ideas I've yet come across, but definitely very original. At risk of misinterpreting a joke by taking it seriously, I can imagine a couple of issues here. The supply at Galashiels is 10 MVA, which is the same as Marshall Meadows so the only actual...

Scotland's idea, I'm pretty sure, is to use discontinuous as a stepping stone to full electrification for most lines south of Inverness. So it makes sense they would install a normal 132/25kV GSP for a future conventional system. Furthermore, if controlling costs is a real aim, it does seem...

I guess it never started working. I assume this is both supplies unavailable at Kensal Rise ATFS

just realised! I actually meant to say Ely-Peterborough line but wrote cambridge by accident.

It often try it because you get to sit in the declassified first class (if it's a 170) and then face the front exit for Norwich once the service reverses at Ely

Only actual change that seems to have happened is that Peter Hendy has deleted his twitter account. To some extent I suspect this is probably to do with general distancing from twitter that is happening by various official government organisations

I've done about 6 trips over the Ely-Peterborough line in recent weeks and it is a seriously bumpy ride, mostly I've been in the back carriage as well.

I imagine that could work quite nicely, but that is a lot of expensive and complicated equipment for the railway to fund, operate and maintain. SFCs are already bad enough since they can be very big sites! With a mind for cost, the Siemens 11kV system is relatively tried and tested and could...

Not sure if it's really heat related, but the GWML is in a rather poor shape with a loss of traction power in the London area (Kensal Green substation). So EL are running maybe 3 trains in total each way, and HEX up to 4 (2tph).

Yeah could be. Would be interesting to know if that was specifically thought about. Interestingly Motherwell was originally a feeder station, I assume it was replaced by Gowkthrapple, but when and for what reason I've no idea. Possibly as long ago as the WCML North project.

Yeah I believe the interventions were to install a cable from one of the Eglington supplies down to feed the route to a new TSC substation at Muirhouse South Jnc in order to feed the route to Barrhead/East Kilbride off of a separate supply to that which supplies the Glasgow Central area as far...

Going back to the LUL side of things. I asked some questions around the District Dave forum and it turns out there were a rather large amount of electrical control rooms between the start of the LPTB era until the ~1970s before they all came under Leicester Square. This information is fairly...

Newton is an interesting one, is it going to be taking over from Eglington Street? And I presume it's grid supply is Clyde Bank 275kV.