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Depends what caused it and why. If the tunnel is going to continue collapsing, then it will be very difficult to rectify. See Penmanshiel (RIP to the 2 works, Gordon Turnbull and Peter Fowler, who are still in there). Not to burst your bubble, but in the example of Ribblehead it was (local)...

Normally changes to Standards explicitly exempt projects already underway, unless there is a clear reason not to. Interesting that this standard change did force a reset for the project.

No worries, it's been quite a while since I was involved with steam but I expect the clearance process won't have changed much.

Having had the opportunity to flick through BPlan, I suspect that there's a data error with the Timing Load that is causing RTT to misreport it. There's no loco-hauled timing load with a trailing load of 325t in the data I can see. I am fairly sure they at least were timed as Class 325 EMU in...

Were the Class 325 paths really timed as a loco not a EMU? Or is this another weird data error from interpreting the Bplan timing load?

Door LEDs going Red are already used to indicate faults, aren't they? The door lights only lighting up when active is reasonably clear. The light being extinguished is already a known value for the vast majority of passengers, which can be evidenced from the fact people waiting to alight...

It's the other way round - Steam Locos are cleared for specific routes, rather than routes being cleared for Steam. This is because there can be quite wide ranging differences between classes of locos. A fair amount of the network does get steam at least once a year, if you include positioning...

The quality of Rocks Lane would be one - the village end in particular is extremely steep. Also, in L&BR days London Road was presumably still the principal stagecoach route from Brighton to London via Burgess Hill and Cuckfield? (You can follow Balcombe Road from north of Gatwick Airport at...

This seems a rather time-consuming "solution".

It almost certainly won't have grandfather rights regardless as, if it was ever there, the system was fully removed.

Presumably because the 99s could be running on electric mode for most, if not all, of the Broxbourne RHTT circuit, reducing the emissions.

I'm far from an expert. However, my sense is that the 2 key factors are the relatively cheap housing in London Commuter terms, and the availability of entry-level or non-degree work in warehousing and manufacturing. Commuters to London or MK are being priced out even from MK, Northampton is a...

As mentioned above, Southampton to Milbrook. Half-cases on the WCML from Rugby to Brinklow and Hartford Jn to Acton Bridge, both with the Down Slow inside the Down Fast but the Up Slow outside the Up Fast so tracks are DF-DS-UF-US.

And delightfully, freight on both sides 'outside' the fast lines!

Probably less in both cases than if they weren't consulted and lodged a court case.

There's an old thread that's relevant here: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/paired-by-use-or-paired-by-direction.178351/ 1791451506 At Woking it is quite inconvenient that the terminating train must cross to the middle of the through tracks, and a similar problem occurs at Basingstoke. If...

As risk is a function of probability, then by definition reducing the probability is reducing the risk. The task of any risk management is to reduce the risk to a manageable level. In this instance, the role of the service tunnel as an emergency evacuation route is also an important...

Government must balance the duty to regions to provide them with sufficient infrastructure for their socio-economic development with their duty to the country as a whole not to plug the mineshaft with banknotes. In the same way it isn't reasonable to let government shut what they like without...

Being in the tunnel for 1 hour or less is a completely different situation to being in the tunnel for 10 hours.

The chances of the section of line through the gorge ever being wired has a probability near as makes no difference to zero. It's too environmentally and visually sensitive to justify the construction works and Masts when BEMUs are going to be a thing. And as there'd never be any need to stable...