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Yes, as per the Network Rail website: "The double arrows start as we know and love them before separating and making their way around the face of the clock every minute. Then, every twelve hours, the completed arrow takes a journey around the face."

Have to agree. This government is not quite so short-termist and austerity minded as previous, but it would only take one economic shock to go down that path again. Luckily, nothing is happening out there that might cause a economic shock so I think we're good.

I like that this image (figure 23, page 12) implies that "discontinuous electrification" will be implemented by only electrifying one track.

I talked to EWR at a consultation last year about this. Basically it's all cost and timeline driven. Keep electrified sections as small as possible and you reduce capital outlay and deliver sooner.

Problem 1 of about 7000 I think!

I suggest using St. Pancras International as the backup London terminus. The international platforms are long enough and give electrified access to both the WCML and ECML. I foresee no problems with this plan.

Best thing is to look at https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ and trace the lines out of Kings Cross. You'll quickly see how limited the options are, and that's before considering any operational limits like needing electrification. There are no chords off the ECML that face the right direction until...

Is there any route? I don't think there's a way of the CS getting from Kings Cross to Birmingham International without reversing either before or at BHI.

How does cable theft actually work, logistically, for the thieves? It would seem to me that a long, thin piece of metal strung out and fixed in place in several locations is really awkward to try and steal. You presumably need to steal quite a lot to make the risk and effort worthwhile compared...

Being discussed in this thread from this post onwards.

If they do it will be the worst sort of scraping-the-barrel short-termist penny pinching. You're obviously not going to change the route now, so you can't make any civil engineering savings (by maybe adding more curvature to avoid earthworks, tunnels, bridges etc.). The only big civils "saving"...

Given the discussion in https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/emr-class-222%E2%80%99s-declining-reliability.289251/, the HSTs must be pretty bad to be worse than the 222s! I hope they get a *very* good refresh and overhaul when they go up there.

This is interesting - practically speaking I assume this means using Starlink, though OneWeb might be an option as well. I guess it makes sense in the context of patchy mobile coverage in a lot of areas of Scotland. Would it be the first installation of Starlink/satellite broadband on UK trains?

Not sure if this counts as a consultation update (mods, please move if there's somewhere more appropriate). There will be a new regulator for EWR with the aim to speed up environmental assessments and approvals...

At around the 3 minute mark there's a CGI visual of the platforms and approaches - the southernmost track and platform doesn't have any OLE, I going to assume that's an oversight on the part of the graphics people and not indicative of the design...

The railway is a public service (or at least I believe it should be). While that certainly means you can run aspects of it like a business, it ultimately isn't one and I do think the distinction is important.

L&G are a massive financial services and asset management firm, not that surprising. Also, fun fact I've just learned, they sold most of their insurance products/brand off to Allianz in 2019.

From RTT: "This service was cancelled between Kettering and St Pancras International due to a problem with the brakes (MN)." At least it wasn't the engines!

The problem is that none of this technology is "brand new", right? It's a new train, but it's not like any of the underlying features are groundbreaking. They haven't got an amazing new traction control system, or some radically new signalling interface. It's a perfectly normal Class 800...

Interestingly (or not) I was on 222022 yesterday from Nottingham and it followed a very similar profile.