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I have a theory. EWR Western Phase 2 is supposed to open in 2024. They want diesel trains for 4-6 years. Perhaps the basic idea is to use existing or other planned grid connections. Assuming Oxford is wired by 2024 (big assumption), could you feed the whole of EWR Western section, including...

Richard Clinnick (Rail Magazine) reporting that EWR are going out to tender for pre-loved DMUs. However also indicating that the 6 year lease sought suggests electrification is becoming more likely perhaps https://twitter.com/Richard_rail/status/1237031892274339842?s=19

The bimodes will be diesel under the wires if the Market Harborough extension and modifications South of Bedford aren't done, otherwise there won't be enough power and/or they won't be able to travel at 125mph and keep time. So in this case I think they're just waiting for the right moment to...

Harborough-Northampton is prob a more likely reopening candidate (West Northants are looking at this) Leicester-rugby would require a new railway probably from Kilby Bridge and around Countesthorpe. Although one possibility it does create could be a multimodal terminal at / near Magna Park

I think the main change is that the fast Bedford commuter trains will basically move from being TL to EMR electric services originating at Corby. I don't think these will call at St Albans and obviously won't be crossing to the slow lines around West Hampstead. My experience of EMR inter city...

Happened to be perusing RTT for May and services are booked to call at P4 eg 0730 Derby to St Pancras. Happened to notice quite a few SPL Powerlines vans parked near railway access points in Market Harborough last weekend, which I guess is a promising sign.

Remember that Bristol airport expansion got kicked into the long grass in the last couple of weeks. The point that people may be missing is that all planning decisions about airport expansion may have to follow this precedent. What kind of airport expansion is compatible with Net Zero?

This is either misunderstanding or misrepresenting what the court said. They did not pass judgment on LHR expansion. They ruled on a point of law, not policy. The Planning Act requires the planning authority (in this case Grayling as then SoS at DfT) to show that the decision is consistent with...

Plus ammonia synthesis is incredibly energy intensive and is currently a major source of CO2. You need to clean this up whilst increasing production significantly for it to be more than an extremely niche solution

+1 Also some significant industries that see hydrogen as a way to remain relevant - particularly the gas industry that sees 'blue hydrogen' (H2 from natural gas with carbon capture) as the route to avoid the death of their industry. I'm not saying 'there will be no hydrogen' but the glacial...

I don't know. Do you? I can't quite tell from this kind of response whether I am supposed to infer that an H2 train in a tunnel can never be made safe? Or that it has not yet been shown safe, but can/will be? Or that the costs of delivering a safe,hydrogen workable railway make it uneconomic ...

And yet this is happening in Germany as noted in posts above. So does your thinking mean that 1. You know of risks they don't, or believe their mitigation of risks is inadequate? 2. They have adequately mitigated the risks in ways you don't know, or don't understand? 3. You a simply have a...

Lord, grant me the confidence of the EMR fleet director, that given recent industry track record, everything will happen when it should :lol: The real issue is not whether there are enough 222s to run every train, but whether there will be enough capacity. In post #2504 I took a stab at showing...

Yes... However I'd like to think that the project team, NR, ORR and whoever will have at some point made the same incisive observation and therefore done things differently to Tesco. What we shouldn't tolerate is 'industry exceptionalism' as an excuse for poor performance and a failure to...

The work that was done at the Braybrooke substation site completed some time ago (well before Christmas). There is nobody on site and the land has been basically returned to its original state for now.

Not top secret though really as most of it was, at some level, already well in the public domain. Main bit of insight was that it looks like the electrification won't be 125-ready when the new trains start to turn up. Think there had been quite a bit of speculation about that, it looks like...

to be fair to Abellio, it is poor today, the 70min layover of an HST at St Pancras being the most obvious example. However, the reported trials of a 2+4 HST suggest to me a little anxiety that this plan may not survive contact with reality.

The basic idea is that post Dec-2020, the electrics will be running to Corby, reducing demand from Kettering and points South. Secondly the timetable recast will improve utilisation. The EMR intercity fleet requirement will therefore be much smaller and until the new trains turn up, the IC...

I don't agree. From the ORR data portal: "2018-19 is the twelfth year in a row with no passenger fatalities as a result of a train accident." Ie we no longer think it's normal for a small number of passengers to die in train crashes, although we used to. There's no reason we cannot achieve the...

The The new car park is now fully open