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If there has not been hardly action on electrification phase 4 recently, does anybody know if there has been any mast foundations appear on phases 3 & 5 yet, or have Balfour Beatty put there feet up for a bit? On his website NW sparks states that phase 5 start date for main works is June 2015...

East of Reading there are still some big gaps, I think this includes Maidenhead-Twyford, but with the train going at 125 mph it is a bit hard to take in! I am going to Bristol and Cardiff in the next few months so I will keep a look out. I did notice that the most eastern pile is not far short...

I have just come back from a return journey from London to Swindon, I only saw the up/northside on both legs though. Airport Junction to Reading:-About 30-35% piling complete, either side of Burnham there about 20 masts installed with about half of them have cross sections fitted. Reading...

Tunnel boring machine Victoria's breakthrough at Farringdon on Wednesday night completed tunnelling through the capital, please see link:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33002819 :D:D:D

I travelled alongside this section on Saturday and there are some OHLE masts installed as well, they are using steel piling for the foundations. Please click onto link below. http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/articles/first-new-crossrail-tracks-laid-in-southeast-london It is going to be...

Just done a return trip from London to Leicester today and I was wondering when will the ground work start? Quiet a few bridges have been rebuilt but I could not see pilling or concrete foundations anywhere north of Bedford or did I?, about 5-10 miles north of Bedford near Sharnbrook Junction I...

There is a one off documentry on BBC2 at 21:00 on 29/04/15 to find out if customers are getting value from the £8 Billion of fares and the £4 Billion of public money that goes into the rail industry every year, should be worth a watch.

This is a report that recommends 1500 V DC electrification of the GNER and the LMS from Crewe/Liverpool Lime Street to Carlisle in the 1930's, hope you find it interesting.:D http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_Elec001.pdf

I did a return trip from London Paddington to Newbury yesterday and I thought I would post an update or lack of it to be more precise. I would say from Airport Junction to just east of Reading, piling completed is at about 20% complete, the nearest pile to London is just east of Iver Station...

I went from London to Cardiff and back yesterday so I thought I would give an update, I could only saw the north side as it was pitch black on the way back! The new Stockley Bridge to connect to the up slow lines at Airport Junction is complete with track, a connection to the up slow, OHLE...

I will be going from London to Cardiff and back today so I will give the Great Western Electrification thread an update towards the end of this week.

There is a new four part series starting on Thursday 4th Dec at 20:00 on Channel 5:D

If the conversion does happens and personaly I think it will, it will be 25KV all the way through to the container port, what is the point of an electric spine if you cannot go all way from A to B? 3rd rail is deemed unsafe in sidings/container ports so it will not happen here and I'm sure...

I found this on another forum, in short a class 92 on 3rd rail power from Southampton to Basingstoke would be in trouble. "There is an almost continuous climb at, IIRC, 1 in 200 all the way from about Eastleigh to the summit just south of Basingstoke and an electric locomotive hauling a 20 or...

I sure that I have seen something somewhere that the Class 92's would be banned from the SWML on DC, in any case the electric equipment for this section of the 3rd rail, which is part of the electric spine, is life expired so money will have to be spent.

I forgot that the four track section in South Wales starts at Severn Tunnel Junction and goes through to Cardiff, silly me. If we are to get a full scale electrification on the Great Western, surly a new breed of electric freight locomotives will be required, or will we see a Llanwern to Port...

There is also the four section between Didcot/Swindon and also some passing loops between Swindon and Bristol Parking to think about as well. The last time I went between Didcot and Swindon last July some pilling was completed on the four track section and this covered all four lines but this...

The first piece in the jigsaw, please see link. http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/News-Releases/Drop-in-session-for-Tufnell-Park-residents-to-find-out-more-about-Churchill-Road-footbridge-reconstr-2174.aspx

The line from Swindon via Chippenham/Bath to Bristol TM will be closed next year from mid July to the end of August according to the Wiltshire Gazzette, please see this link. http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/11490080.Weeks_of_disruption_expected_during_rail_electrification_work/

Enjoy!! http://www.globalrailnews.com/2014/09/05/video-chorley-flying-arches/