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It was piling but I missed the start so don't know exactly where Edit: clicking the teams meeting link above takes you to a recording. Incredibly, they manage to be very specific about the What (piling & vegetation) but entirely opaque about the Where. Nothing as useful as a map! The only clue...

Announcement from Harborough District Council on Twitter:. You can find out more about Network Rail's work on the electrification of the Midlands Mainline, set to begin over the next month, at an online presentation. Visit https://t.co/5mXA0AKDA2 at 6.30pm on Wed 28 October 2020. There'll be a...

Hearing the Class 180s are going to be rebranded as "Vulcan", in keeping with EMR's newfound love for Roman deities.

Has anybody mentioned the disused brick built John O'Gaunt / Twyford Viaduct? It's a few miles to the South of Melton Mowbray. Here's a link to some drone footage

The 3 pantograph testing sounds interesting... My sketch on a post-it suggests that to emulate the pantograph spacing on a 3x360, they'd need 5 trailers and 3 electric locos in the formation. That seems quite a lot heavier than even a 2+9 IC125, would it actually be able to crack 110 if the...

This is a *terribly* cynical attitude. The WVRP website (yes, it's a thing... https://wvr.org.uk/ ) is proposing the use of battery Cl230 to run an hourly Kettering - Wisbech shuttle. Feel free to take a look, but use the 'Speculative Ideas' forum to discuss, preferably after eating certain...

The Northants Telegraph has published this story about adding a new chord and starting a service from Kettering to Peterborough and beyond, which is the obvious Eastern leg of this Northern Arc concept...

Assuming MML electrification remains near the top of the priority list... if there is also still significant uncertainty of the detail around Wigston grade separation, then surely the obvious thing to do is immediately extend the scope of the Market Harborough extension to Kilby Bridge, and then...

Thanks I was surprised to see (through trees) something pass non stop through Betws around 3 this afternoon heading North.

So if you have to build it anyway, and the real issue is Bletchley- MK capacity, then why not combine the Aylesbury service with the Marston Vale and get people to change at Bletchley. A lack of direct Aylesbury-MK services wouldn't seem ideal, but if the changes are slick, it avoids or at...

Indeed, the grid connection would be provided by National Grid from their 400kV network, not Uniper who own the power station site. I recall that the GSP and railway substation were (are...?) to be from one of the two 400kV lines that cross the railway and Kegworth Rd between Kegworth and...

KO2 was killed by Grayling, and then replaced with KO1a, the outcome of which is to provide OHLE and power to enable all EMR services to run on electricity, i.e. - Availability of sufficient power by extending to the new grid supply point at Braybrooke (the Kettering to Harborough bit might be...

Coming back to a station at EMA, I think the real challenge to its business case is whether EMA will ever have enough passengers to make it worthwhile. It's around 5 million passengers a year whereas Manchester was nearer 30m. Being on a branch, I'm not seeing where the non airport traffic...

Actual MML Electrification news: This is an excerpt from a letter sent to people living near the railway in Market Harborough. Key sentence: "The surveys cover a large geographical area between Kettering Station and Greater Bowden" All but confirms they'll go a bit North of the station

There was a story in one of the magazines that EMR did some trials of short HSTs indicating that there was a scenario where a few lived on after the electrics started (perhaps allowing a few 222s to be doubled up in case of overcrowding). Can't see that the demand will be there for that now...

With additional HST GTi being talked about, along with all sorts of re-engineering projects like 769 and these 165/6, one conclusion is that the industry is saying that new DMUs are almost in-investible because of Net Zero. Can see why the GTIs would be a popular choice that might get people...

I think, looking at the past But thinking about current (pre-covid) passenger levels, the idea of 2/3 car 170s on large numbers of MML London services is hard to fathom

In the normal Timetable the 0730-ish from Derby to London uses the slow lines from Harrowden to Sharnbrook. Don't know if that runs at the moment. Obviously there is freight traffic too.

Wandering slightly off topic here so apologies... But turning the point on its head and asking what kind of rail industry would have been able to respond? I think it'd have 3 characteristics 1. Much less regulation of train services to allow a TOC to launch new/different services 2. Surplus...

Anyway, back on topic ;) MML will be closed this Sunday between Market Harborough and Luton. This seems to have been announced at rather shorter notice than normal as EMR are saying that passengers mighty have bookings for trains that won't run. Perhaps this indicates that things are at risk...