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Thanks as ever for the update. Contractor is now on site for Braybrooke substation - there's a gatehouse at the top of Kettering Road, adjacent to the A6 junction, and it looks like the route for the site access road from the entrance to the substation site has been cleared. Deveg work has...

Plus I think the slows are something like 50mph South of Wellingborough. I think they were left that way precisely because the fast lines can accommodate all 6 EMR services.

Exactly what I said - one middle aged train with a dated interior has been replaced with another. It hardly smacks of an upgrade to the average punter Entirely reasonable, but EMR knew they were getting the 360s a long time ago (first informed speculation on this forum was June 2019), and the...

Annual season ticket prices to London: Bedford - £5804 Northampton - £6096 Portsmouth & Southsea - £6112 Wellingborough - £7780 o_O

Exactly, flexible working means the lines between 'business traveler' and 'commuter' are blurring as people move to 2/3 or 3/2 days in office and home. A buoyant property market towards many edges of commuter belt suggest that people are moving further from London seeking factors like larger...

Wellingborough travelers are the main loser from the new timetable, however here it's seemed to me that most of the focus was on the Luton/Bedford/Wellingborough --> North timetabling. As has been said by several here, it's a small market, mitigated by peak-hour calls, clock-face timetabling...

De-veg work has progressed well into Harborough itself - very apparent on the west side at Kettering Road overbridge Edit: Also NR will be 'installing cabling next to the track' in the small hours of 23rd May

Nothing happening there, though de-veg work had been carried out well into Market Harborough. National Grid's contractors came s while ago, moved a lot of mud around, put it all back and then left the site (presumably ground investigations, archaeology etc) I would imagine that work will start...

Market Harborough local media are reporting that "work is starting" by National Grid's team on the new Braybrooke substation to complete "Autumn 2022" (which I think in PR terms means any time before 31/12/2022). Work Starts On Rail Electricity Substation Project – HFM (harboroughfm.co.uk)

Thank you, and it's clearly outside the scope of this consultation. However, the issue for me is the way it's described in the picture e.g. on p8 of the consultation (p5 of the PDF), it's described as "potential future section of EWR". It'd be quite hard to sound less committed to it...

I felt surprised that EWR want to effectively 6-track a bit of the MML immediately to the North of where a significant number of trains terminate (so intuitively I'd have expected there to be capacity). Certainly showed they're not proposing to do a cheapskate approach, which would probably...

Perhaps not quite what is being asked about but I don't think the blue (ex-EMT) class 43s could work with red (ex-LNER) Mk3s because of modifications that had been made, and so it became more cost-effective to swap to the ex LNER Cl43 rather than modify the VP185 fleet. (somebody more...

ALL-IMPORTANT MML ELECTRIFICATION GREAT CRESTED NEWT UPDATE New Protection For Great Crested Newts During Railway Upgrade – HFM (harboroughfm.co.uk)

It looks like it's replaced by a passenger service at the May TT change. This from another thread In between, the stock forms the 5M19 Melton - Syston - Melton Looks like there's also a morning Melton-St Pancras and evening return, though they're in RTT as two services each that...

Good points here... I notice that when Northampton's rail links come up, there's a lot of pivoting between a ideas built on commuting into Northampton and long-distance inter-regional strategic links Assuming that conventional upgrades 'solves' the Leicester/MML capacity questions in any...

Can't remember where I saw it, so might have misremembered but I think the next ATFS was originally proposed for a new site between Ratcliffe-on-Soar village and Kegworth, where 2 400 kV lines cross the railway. Something like... https://goo.gl/maps/TcdVvoP6mZUPGVZN6 Although interestingly, HS2...

In support of this, I think a narrative of how we got here is helpful.. The event that started this was the local strategy consultation by the embryonic West Northants Unitary Authority in August 2019, which asked the question: 20. Should the plan consider the potential to deliver the...

Based on pre-Covid data, Network Rail believed that 4-tracking from Wigston North to Leicester is/was a bit of a no-brainer, and suggests cracking on with business case development. However grade separation seems to be off the agenda. This may be because the main growth foreseen by NR, Midlands...

Presumably the model is 3rd party investment backed against a long-term power purchase agreement from the railway So in addition to using the railway property portfolio, you could foresee development of renewable generation on 3rd party land near the railway, with supply directly to the...

I said it was a batty idea ;-) I haven't gone through the detail of RTT, but it could be that those service trains replace the ECS from May? The 1M19 then goes ECS to Syston as 5M19, reverses back to Melton Mowbray to form the southbound service. My experience of Melton Mowbray suggests that...