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I completely agree that Stocksbridge to Chesterfield should be heavy rail and extended through to Nottingham allowing the current Sheffield to Nottingham service to drop calls at Ilkeston and Langley Mill. That would massively boost connectivity between the South Yorkshire and East Midlands main...

I imagine this is why TfGM seem to see Glossop and Marple as pretty low down the Metrolink priority list. There's too much interaction with potential additional Manchester to Leeds/Sheffield services. I don't think there'll be any Metrolink development on those lines until NPR is more developed...

Yes, it was included in the 2024 GM Rapid Transit Strategy

So from my point of view I'm assuming that a new Liverpool to Manchester route is provided for fast trains because I don't see either a particularly high frequency heavy rail service or tram conversion being possible without either Sheffield-Liverpool trains being directly moved on to a new line...

My thoughts on the routes suggested: Mid-Cheshire - Mostly no. The population density is too low, Knutsford is probably just about close enough to be viable for trams but has high car usage and isn't going to generate enough traffic for a regular tram service. Perhaps if peak extensions could...

Diverting the Peterborough to Lincoln service via Boston isn't going to happen. It'd add far too much time on journeys like Peterborough/Spalding to Lincoln. I dont think trying to improve Boston to Spalding rail journeys is a sensible use of tax payer money. The loss of the East Lincs mainline...

It wouldn't surprise me if it's already been done. What would happen if Rail Forums were in charge of GBR.

I don't think its even fair to criticise Brown over the deficit. It was a pretty a small percentage (~3%) of GDP and was largely covered by the economy growing at a similar rate during that period. Public sector debt was lower in 2007 than it was in 1997. I think plenty problems we face now can...

Its definitely nowhere near communism but there's clearly been a leftward shift in policy compared to the Tories. The shift has been larger in some areas than others but I can't think of a policy area where there hasn't been a shift to the left.

Yet there's plenty of people calling Labour communists and criticising their tax policies and regulatory policies for being too left wing and too anti-business. Labour have made plenty of mistakes and some of the immigration rhetoric is a bit strong for my liking, but at the same time...

I can't see it happening. I had some small involvement into work looking into the Parkway and it doesn't really achieve much. If you don't have access to a car it improves journey times quite a bit if you're travelling to London or Plymouth (and stations in between), assuming a shuttle bus...

My point was more around the whole Shugborough/Colwich bottlenecks which justify a bypass. A 75mph speed restriction is annoying but wouldn't justify a new line on its own if there was capacity for more trains on the existing line. The speed of an bypass is definitely a nice additional benefit...

It doesn't matter about the number of lines from a capacity perspective. If anything the number of lines creates the capacity problems because there's a need for more services to serve the local stations on their lines. What matters is how many tracks each individual line has, the mix of...

CLC's problem is that it's not a freight or fast intercity line which are far less likely to be suitable for battery power. It also suffers from the fact the inter-regional/inter-city services that do operate over the CLC couldn't be made fully electric without significant additional...

That might be difficult to accommodate though given the XC and Avanti services run pretty close to each other. It'll be end of the 20 minute interval London service which isn't the end of the world but certainly isn't ideal. It'd also mean no Manchester to WCML service. If its going to require...

The problem with continuing to use Handsacre is that Shugborough/Colwich bottleneck isn't just the two trains per hour going to/from Stoke/Manchester, its the two track section through Shugborough AND the need for southbound slow services need to cross the northbound fast lines to reach the slow...

I'm 100% there would be an additonal service if there was capacity. It was included in Arriva bid for Northern in 2016. I expect there's a lot of suppressed demand from the short formed trains and poor frequency. There's also the potential for additonal stations between Altrincham and Stockport...

She constantly moans about the lack of services on the Mid-Cheshire line but also opposes the one project that would allow more services on the Mid-Cheshire line....

I like that idea. It allows the Lincoln trains to serve Meadowhall without having to reverse at Sheffield and there would appear to be space to grade seperate. It would simplify the tram/tram-train operations to Woodhouse if they didn't have to share the line with heavy rail too.

He doesn't. He's talking in both direction terms throughout the document and compares it to the 30tph that the Elizabeth Line could potentially reach (but probably won't) which would obviously be 30 trains in each direction. The guy is clueless.