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The Wellingborough demo is an Innovation project from NR's annual SBRI competition so there's no commercial case behind it, so I expect there will be some kind of demo, but probably a bit premature to worry about specific traction In other news, a number of bits of smaller steelwork have...

Not part of the MML scheme but tweets yesterday (linked below) from Noel Dolphin of Furrer & Frey show progress on a demonstration at Wellingborough yard of retractable electrification to allow electric locos to be used end-end on freight. The MML contractor SPL are involved though...

And it's natural for customers to extrapolate from the state of the bits they can see, to the state of the bits they can't. And the bits of Cl222 that customers do see are decrepit now - seat covers are threadbare and stained, window seals have failed, the carriage lighting is still halogen...

I think the Connect services switch to/from the slow lines at, or south of Harrowden junction, so I think the wiring of the fast lines from there to the current Northern extent of wiring is not used day to day. Perhaps some Connect services are diagrammed to use Kettering South Junction, but...

No, it's not close to Desborough, but adjacent to Braybrooke GSP (actually nearer the edge of Harborough than Braybrooke). I suspect there are many other constraints to resolve before a passing loop is more use (Wigston-Syston, signalling, Bedford station etc) The key point for Southbound...

I think, post-HS2, every EMR IC service might as well call at Loughborough as well as EMP. Anyone from further North would normally be on the HS2 service, surely so speed is probably less important than frequency. I think this train might be difficult to path. The basic issue is that a...

There was the proposal to (post Grayling) get around the compulsory retirement of the EMT (as was) HST fleet by using Cl43s with cascaded Mk4 carriages. Perhaps @ohgoditsjames was thinking of that? A 'challenging' idea at best. Back on topic, a further recent letter suggests 28/29 January for...

I'm curious about this photo - obviously the normal distance between OHLE masts is >50m, so can any of our resident electrification experts comment on why you'd have 2 structures so close together? In summary, the Market Harborough situation seems to be - A number (perhaps 5) masts North of the...

Leicester has a through line on the far East side of the station.

There was quite a lot of bridge works; some were raising parapets and others were completely rebuilt. (I'm assuming if the parapets were raised, then they are not going to be further raised/rebuilt Mostly 2016-ish (1 B.G.*) Great Bowden Road, Mkt Harborough (the current scheme ends immediately...

Yes, that one is by ATS Tyres, just North of Kettering Road A couple of extra STC masts have gone in on the up side adjacent to Braybrooke Road, at the location photographed by @Flying Phil in post #4840

Here is NG Electricty Transmission's process for new connections: https://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/electricity-transmission/connections It seems like we are at Step 3 of the process - NGET will design the connection and make a connection offer to NR The way to think about it is that the NGET...

The piles that @PJM pictured from the Little Bowden footbridge (which connects Braybrooke Road and Glebe Road if you're not local) have now received the galvanised plates that I guess masts will shortly be bolted to. Seems like plenty is going on during this set of (mostly) overnight works...

Thanks. Very detailed. If, like me, you are less familiar with the locations then the following website attempts to map the locations of the various bridges https://abcrailwayguide.uk/england/northamptonshire Thanks also for your picture updates @Flying Phil

Drove over the MML on the A6 near Desborough and spotted a number of TTCs ready for smaller parts. So really rapid progress, especially since they only started the day after tomorrow!* At one point there seemed to be a consensus that a number of bridges needed works before electrification...

Latest update from the Programme that is still only 'expected to be funded' <D Milestone Reached In Construction Of Rail Electricity Substation – HFM (harboroughfm.co.uk) @59CosG95 And yes, it's pretty clear from the powerlines in the background that the photo has been taken from Braybrooke...

Agree, from what I remember, most of the time benefit came from removal of the reverse curves through the station and line speed from 60 -> 85 (I think). Might have been in the order of 10s, a search through the MH Station Upgrade thread might find a bit more informed comment. Given the lack...

Certainly feels weird that Market Harborough wiring is only "expected to be... funded", when I can literally hear the sound of piling for the scheme in the distance right now as I'm typing this. Perhaps DfT are so terrified of Treasury that they're trying to sneak though this big...

Yes... total electrification would probably increase rail demand from 4 TWh (inc LU) to - I'm guessing - 7-8 TWh by 2050. Whereas across the most recent National Grid ESO Future Energy Scenarios, electricity consumption from 304 TWh to 553-890 TWh by 2050 So, rail is around 1% of the GB...

The noise of piling is ringing out across Market Harborough today.