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Corby to Leicester will be no slower with a change at Kettering than direct via Melton. I think Oakham - London is as quick via Peterborough, although I think people do appreciate that there's a direct morning/evening service. So the only unmet demand would really be Melton/Oakham to...

OK, it's probably not high on the priority list, but admire the drive of the proposer to even get anyone to talk about it. Certainly beats sitting on a forum moaning about the state of the railway, doesn't it? <D Also, by testing ideas via scrutiny, the idea can itself be improved. Some...

The only reason the electrification is going to Harborough is so they've got somewhere to plug the trains in (Braybrooke). Otherwise it'd have been Corby only. Corby will be properly inside London's commuter belt and (corrected for Covid), demand from Corby will grow because of this...

Agreed. Even if the lack of grid supply is why electrification can't be switched on before 2027/8, it does feel that closures might be avoided by getting works like piling done during the construction phase. Although, EWR is not the GWML, so the disruption costs of closure ought to be lower...

Agree, where to get the power from - where would the grid supply point (GSP) be? (For those new to this) NR generally connect directly to the 400kV electricity transmission system where it intersects the railway. When GWR electrification at Oxford was canned, this means either (i) build a new...

There's a huge range of materials that get lumped together under the term 'glass'. Make a mix of those formulations at the bottle bank, and you get something that is no good to anybody. The overwhelming majority of glass is soda-lime, and most of this will be jars and bottles, and most of...

The 360s will not reach Market Harborough in the normal run of things. Weekend engineering when the line is closed between MH and Leicester is the only use case. That being said, I do think the MML wiring in K01a goes just far enough North to allow a 360 cross and reverse North of MH station...

Yes I think realtimetrains is the root cause of this confusion by showing HST paths as110 max. I think this is some sort of historic quirk.

The letter I've received says the work will be carried out between 81m 73ch and 83m 26ch. If 83m 26ch is the Northern limit of electrification then that's about 0.6km North of MH station building, so not as far as the Great Bowden Road overbridge. Obvs that is not necessarily the full extent...

The NR 'Leicester Area Strategic Advice' report will answer your questions, I think. It's got a Platform 0 option... Your search engine will find it very easily. Exactly. The report above is saying "To give these potential customer outcomes, this is the sort of project NR would need to...

Grade separation at Wigston no longer seems to be on the agenda. NR published a report on Leicester that covers potential options for development. You need to search for "Leicester Area strategic advice 2020" and you'll find it easily enough.

<Like Button Pressed> There are Speculative Ideas that keep emerging in MML threads, which appear to be articles of faith for some on here: - Thameslink Cl700s must be extended to Corby instead of EMR Cl360 services (sometimes as well as) - At least 1 MML tph to Leicester must be a semi-fast...

It's not just the wires reaching Leicester, I think there are capacity issues that need to be resolved too. NR published a report about Leicester last year that's worth a skim through, it does talk about a 5th service from the South eg Bedford-Nottingham Given there are already 4tph...

Probably the reason why it's being used more now when there's engineering work is (at a guess) less to do with rolling stock or the relocated crossing, and as more to do with the fact that since its rebuild, MH offers - modern levels of accessibility, step-free access from bus to train - spaces...

EMR have already been terminating services from the North when the line is blockaded and then bussing people to (typically) Bedford. Yes, you will be able to turn a train from the South using the crossing immediately North of the station (or even using Bi-Di running), but doing so as part of a...

This comes up on a fairly regular basis, sometimes so people can find something for the Heathrow Connect 360/2 to do However, it's currently a non starter given constraints South of Luton and at Leicester. Unless NR can conjure additional paths, any post Electrification fantasy of sending 360s...

New Civil Engineer Magazine published this article a couple of days ago, which I haven't seen mentioned in other threads. Link (£): Network Rail draws up list of ‘no regret’ electrification schemes - New Civil Engineer There's no further discussion of specific projects, although perhaps...

Prediction: Whilst we will largely have beaten Covid-19 by mid-year, there has been a fundamental re-shaping of work & business travel for a significant number of rail users, and a large chunk of 2021-2 will be spent figuring out what this means for enhancements 2023+ and into CP7 Hope: the CP6...

The 360s will only work to Corby in normal operations. The EMR service spec is 6tph, 2*Corby, 2*Nottingham, 2* Sheffield. So even if you could send a 360 to Market Harborough (you can't, no electricity), it'd be at the expense of a Notts or Shef service.

OK so that's interesting. The press release references the event last week discussed above. This means we should probably reframe the discussion above as the actual work being talked about is presumably in the Kettering area rather than Harborough...