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The presentation slides are available https://www.thepwi.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/West-London-Orbital-Railway_D-Mansfield.pdf I have quoted some of the relevant items for OOC.

If there are no Birmingham services on a short HS2a just the London ones, then does the extension facilitate any additional services on HS2?

How many HS2 services are expected to stop at Crewe? London to Scotland would pass, Liverpool might pass - probably stop, Manchester (1) would pass. Birmingham to Manchester would stop (x 2 ?) So 3 stop, 2 pass?

Class 68 and Mark Vs?

There will be a number of non GBR train operators over Network Rail tracks. TfL for their overground and Elizabeth line services and certain underground lines. Wales Liverpool Tyne and Wear Scotland Sheffield trams Future mayoral services? Plus private open access, freight (one freight group...

New article on the 810 in Rail Engineer magazine with some information on key safety imperatives during introduction. https://www.railengineer.co.uk/aurora-a-new-dawn-for-the-east-midlands/

Now that the St Albans Abbey line is contactless does Watford Junction need the touch in/out points in the subway for the mainline platforms?

This metric pkm/d is a reasonable proxy for ticket revenue for this route.

Might need to include West Hampstead for a change for the Jubilee to the West End.

If the relocation of the Trafford freight terminal to parkside goes ahead this would remove freight from the line and thus effectively eliminate any requirement for overtaking moves at Oxford Road.

What would be the local transport improvements conditions that would apply if a third runway was to be built at Heathrow? Restarting the west rail link? A new southern rail link to Staines and Woking?

Why is the turn back platform only 6 carriages long but the other platforms 8? Is it lack of space?

What about the demand from the west in the Amersham direction?

This report from the Centre for Cities think tank on 10 December 2024 proposed various sites for urban development around London. https://www.centreforcities.org/reader/restarting-housebuilding-iii/identifying-sites-for-urban-extensions/ The area between Watford and St Albans is identified as...

There is one passenger train a day mid afternoon from Euston to St Albans Abbey. It is used to switch the train on the branch each day.

Could there be regular diversions via Settle whilst the section north of Preston is renewed?

The 3rd rail BEMU could also be used by Southwestern?

This does suggest that Labour will be more favourable towards Open Access operators than the previous government?

Watford Junction will have a significant Harry Potter flow as a lot of tourists use the train to go to the experience. St Albans may also be more impacted by working from home?

The freight maps in the technical report have a big ring around Ely as a constrained pinch point. Could Network Rail be thinking about the Denbigh East curve as an alternative to the Ely complications?