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Avoiding Ely would save around 7 minutes for a Norwich to Peterborough journey. It would bring the journey time down to around 78 minutes (assuming you can get a clean path). Would the journey time savings make up for the loss of the Ely stop? I doubt it would it enable you to save a unit or...

Shown 222003. So 7 car. The 7 car 222s have (I think) 338 seats (106 1st and 232 std)

Pass. I only looked at today.

Only the 0823, 1152, 1252 Sheffield-St Pancras services are 5 car today. The rest are a mixture of either 7, 4+4, 4+5, 5+5. Northbound from St Pancras to Sheffield only the 0930 and 1732 are 5 car, again everything else is either 7, 4+4, 4+5 or 5+5. On the St Pancras to Nottingham, only the...

A couple of years ago (2018?) A couple of weekends saw both ECML diversions and the freight that normally goes via London/WCML diverted via Ely. Whittlesea saw 196 trains in total between 0600 and 2200. Whilst a one off it does show what the traffic will be like once the infrastructure is...

It wasn't operated by Leicester depot. The unit may have come ECS from Leicester but it would be with a Birmingham or Cambridge driver who would have been was taxied to Leicester. Similarly, the guard would have taxied to Peterborough. Similarly for the 1254 westbound departure, the crews would...

There's 2 operators between Peterborough and Leicester. There's an evening 2012 Peterborough to Nottingham via Leicester that EMR operate.

Getting Leicester crew trained over the route won't really change things. Both the Leicester-Birmingham and Peterborough-Ely routes are already open 24/7 365 days a year, with the crews at both ends already signing the route. It would just mean they replace the Birmingham crews who already sign...

Will be interesting to know what the linespeeds will be over the redoubled Ely North Junction. Currently 50 mph for Lynn/Norwich and 50mph (up) and 60mph* (down) for Peterborough, along with 25 mph on to/off the west curve. The old layout speeds were low (30mph?) for most routes with the main...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/ely-north-junction-upgrade-proposals.68376/ Will also be interesting what the proposed extra passenger paths are used for. Making Cambridge-Peterborough half hourly should be high on the list of priorities.

With regard to the rail service, does the fact that the XC sits in platform 2 for about 45 minutes each hour restrict the station? Pre covid the Norwich service arrives, followed by a London, and then follows the London out of Stansted, meaning 2 trains in platform 1 or 3 every hour. Would a...

Tonight's 1735, 1835 and 1935 departures from St Pancras to Nottingham are all shown as being worked by 7 car 222. The 1800/1900 Sheffields were both 2 x 5 car 222. Looks like EMR have doubled some services up.

With regard to the Leicester-Peterborough route, unless it has changed, Melton Mowbray box is switched out on a Sunday. Makes the block section Frisby to Whissendine, about 15 minutes for a train that stops at Melton. 1634507958 Yeah, single shift on a Sunday, 1200-2200. Reopens approx 0530...

Even as far back as the early 1980s there were never any Sunday morning trains. In fact the Sunday start up back in loco hauled days was over and hour later. (1220 Birmingham-Norwich loco and stock, cut back to a dmu starting at Leicester around 1986 from memory.) As posted on other threads the...

Signalboxes between Peterborough and Leicester don't open until 12 noon on a Sunday. (Manton to Frisby inclusive sometimes open earlier for MML diversions but Ketton and Uffington do not.) Signalbox open hours are (were?) publicly available on the Network Rail website. Traincrew depot for the...

With regard to the Stamford/Oakham/Melton question, there has been a couple of proposals to enhance their service. The Decemver 2008 proposal to extend nearly every other Birmingham-Leicester service to/from Camvridge. This got as far as the services appearing in the timetable before the...

Given the current timetable, curtailing the Birmingham-Stansted at Cambridge would save the grand total of 1 unit, with a 50+ minute turnaround time at Cambridge. To extend the Birmingham-Leicester through to Cambridge requires 4 units, 3 if you're feeling brave and want to go for 20 minute...

3 (I think) weekends next January are the next planned diversions.