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Longer trains yes. But people are regularly suggesting fast intercity trains, and realistically I don’t think that’s ever going to happen.

The work is required for platform 5, if there was no platform 5 project it wouldn’t have ever started. The western entrance was not a reason, but a useful byproduct.

Inadequate? But you’re never going to get long, fast, intercity style trains wasted on such a secondary part of the network. Those routes should have been left with the regional operators.

Link to Robert Stenhouse’s Flickr stream: https://flic.kr/p/2rBBrMP

‘Advisory’ as a noun makes it automatically highly suspect, whatever else it says… :D

The change to a higher powered 132 kV 3 phase supply from the Berwick substation at Low Cocklaw was all organised and the planning application approved a few years ago, it was all covered in the ECML power upgrade thread at the time. The intended use of SFCs allows for a balanced 3 phase load...

And the annoying thing about it is the enhancements work at Marshall Meadows feeder station was already well in hand when it was “paused”…

I wonder if, (based on discussions in previous threads), section 8.2 should be made more explicit in explaining that some railcards introduce significant time restrictions. Eg the argument that’s been raised here that although a Network Card is in use the ‘ticket’ bought with it doesn’t...

Yes, in a typical train made up of a number of multiple units, or in some MU classes where first is ‘in the middle’, you can walk through first to get to another set of standard accommodation. IIRC byelaw 19 only says you must not ‘remain’ in first, not that you cannot pass through.

There’s no melting goes on there, AFAICT from YouTube videos they use a huge rotary shredder.

Obviously an argument would ensue in your case, but someone arriving significantly earlier than possible isn’t so much of a problem to determine…

If you leave Newcastle for the Durham Coast without reversing there‘s a short single track section on the Gateshead side of the river.

[temporary external pipe] It’s there to connect the brakes from front to back of the whole train including the translators and brake force vehicles, the 555s are probably unbraked during the delivery journey.

I think the paper went the way of multi coloured sanitary ware. When did you last see a newly built house with a green or pink bathroom suite?

I wonder if @Clarence Yard knows the intended use of the extended depot facilities, he seemed to know all about the original decision making process?

Thanks for working out the times.

Ah, if it’s a standard choice of diagram then that’s better. Does it provide for well timed down services in the evening peak? Maybe if it becomes permanent they can start highlighting the longer services in the timetable, which will help people with more discretionary travel times.

I don’t think that is guaranteeing 4 car trains, really just a statement that they want more, whilst mentioning the shortage of units. But didn’t it first get ‘announced’ a few months back? I see the BBC ran a similar story back in April: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74nq19w100o

It’s a bit too late now but ‘layout’ would have been a good search term.

Fareham had a renumbering at the same time as electrification. P1 was a closed bay on the down (car park) side, with P2-4 the in use platforms counting across to the west. The up through platform changed from P4 to P1, the in use bay from P3 to P2, and the down through changed from P2 to P3...