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Oh right okay, so these things resting on podiums are actually nothing to do with the AT system? I've been seeing them all across the North West & Central region and into Scotland. This rather changes a lot of assumptions I've been making...

Good point, I was just copying how the original map seemed to have labelled that TSC as Roade. But checking google earth, I can see an old building amongst Ashton MPATS. At Northampton, there is indeed a few old looking buildings opposite the overflow carpark where the viaducts diverge for...

I've always been fond of the very analogue animation at the start of that video. Brief look at the inside of Willesden in that one too. Surprised about how airy and spacious they seem. The outside shot of Rugby identifies it as the building attached to what is at the moment the Colas Rail depot...

Perhaps of interest, maybe to @PeteK , telecoms schematic of Pitsea ECR (1961-198?) from the ECR article of the BTC 1960 electrification conference papers.

On the topic of the original WCML system. I recently came across digitisations of the 1960 British Transport Commission Conference on Electrification randomly on a website about model rail resources: http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/RailwayElec1960.html They're a really enlightening source for...

Seems like Acton Lane was renewed in the 1990s unless the outdoor switchgear is just for the NLL (can't really tell from google earth). So that just leaves Washwood Heath, Willenhall and Stafford as original sites. Unless we take a different view of what counts as WCML South in which case we...

I think there can be situations where an unelectrified line has a certain gauge clearance and can theoretically support OLE, but if you electrify it, the gauge will decrease. So neither the higher gauge nor electrification individually requires interventions except that if you want both than you...

I think it's often the case that the electro-mechanical block instruments are actually triggered by data transmitted on much more digital telecoms systems. So fibreoptic cabling carrying multiplexed TCP/IP just like the Internet, but actually it's all for ringing a bell. I have no idea what the...

It is intriguing that a huge amount of effort and risk has gone (and is going) into developing discontinuous electrification solutions to deal with that 25%. Of course I support progress to reduce those costs, especially the approach that recent schemes have with VCCs and other minor innovations...

Hmmmm? So Anglia (since we were mentioning it) has 3 MDUs and so 3 IMDMs: Romford, Tottenham, Ipswich. Within Ipswich MDU there is a TME for Ipswich and another for Norwich. So what actually is Norwich known as? There are signs calling it a "Maintenance Delivery Unit", and others just saying...

Curious, As far as I can tell in the above data (unless lots of re-organisation has occurred): Sandwell & Dudley, Doncaster and Darlington are the only MDUs to have just one TME. The majority have 2 or 3 and a few have more, Lancashire & Cumbria MDU has 5?! This is good to know thanks Ah so...

I see, so E&P is more often at the MDU level. I would imagine perhaps in Southern Region E&P is more often at the lower level. Does E&P include OLE as a "sub-department" or is that separate? There is something a bit confusing about how the term MDU refers to the top level division, but the...

I recently came across this shapefile dataset from 2023 with shapefiles for various Network Rail subdivisions: Region, Route, Maintenance Delivery Unit (MDU), Track Maintenance Engineer (TME) and Track Section Manager (TSM) - each fitting within the divisional level above it, although they are...

A few times I've seen class 720s waiting around the Ipswich Freightliner depot presumably using its lathe possibly indicating Stratford's busy schedule. However, I have also seen GWR electrostars being hauled to Ilford for wheel turning which is odd as I'd expect North Pole to have one, maybe it...

Yeah I noticed this out the window of a London train, masts go all the way to the current limit of wiring on the Huddersfield line.

A running theme seems to be a brief loss of power, and when things come back on they're broken. But aren't UPSs and such meant to protect against this and allow things to shutdown in a controlled manner?

Although this question was asked somewhat rhetorically, or in jest. I did decide to have a look at the last 2 weeks of RTT data, and the answer is no. The best day I found was the 02 July where every train did run (with no more than 10mins lateness) but there were still two short forms: 9S05...

1783955437 What kind of maintenance team/discipline would be dispatched to this kind of incident? Presumably a civil engineering department, but do they have local area teams stationed at Maintenance Delivery Units like Pway and S&T do?

No such option for Felixstowe freight though. Are they trying to send it all northwards? I'd be surprised if there's space in the timetable for any more freight going that way through Ely or Leicester.

Just drawn by myself off of the publicly available sectional appendix and an out of date quail map to help with fringes between boxes. And because of that, the boundaries between panels is rather speculative as SAs (at least the public ones) are not very exact. I did see that the...