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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    Liverpool/Manchester Airport to Newcastle/Edinburgh will become class 802s, Liverpool-Scarborough and Manchester Airport-Middlesbrough/Saltburn will be class 68 + MK5A. That leaves only Manchester Picadilly - Selby/Hull and South Pennine to be run by the 185s. I expect some of those to be run...
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    If you also review the 'Just don't go slow' and look at the speed uplifts it seems apparent to me that the TRU will involve a major rebuild of Miles Platting Junction (30-60 mph), Stalybridge Junction (25 - 80 mph) and Stalybridge Station (50-80mph). If those three interventions were all...
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    Infill schemes to keep Electrification teams from dispersing?

    Durham Coast. Initially Northallerton to Saltburn (TPE planning to extend from Middlesbrough to Saltburn) so TPE can switch their Class 68 for Class 88 on the Manchester Airport-. That would include Riverside (Tees Yard) freight yard, Redcar Ore Terminal, Wilton and Tees Dock for electric...
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    Manchester - Stalybridge Electrification

    Unfortunately I don't think there will be any rapid movement on electrification. Looking at the PWI lecture notes previously mentioned in this thread shows there is likely to be major junction works planned to take place first. This is based on the idea of 'Don't go slow' - the notes show...

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