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Because if NR put in more bridge spans without any road alterations they’ll reduce the road height clearance even further. The existing road has/had a steep slope down either side, it’s not level.

Yes you can have ETCS and existing signals. as on the Thameslink Core, but in the south ECML area it is intended to include all trains including the small amount of freight. There’s a dedicated thread about it, it suggests almost all passenger stock used in the area is already ETCS ready...

Many LU escalators have an automatic change to a slower speed if there’s nobody using them. I expect that’s a better idea if you have multiple escalators going the same way; everyone might pile onto the only one that was moving. The original question about running on the left ‘like traffic’...

A recent discussion about Middlesbrough P3 concluded that the sign pointing towards it in the refurbished subway is about the only visible progress so far: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/middlesbrough-railway-station-masterplan.161427/page-6#post-6923675

That’s the route I would be looking into. I think they had to build a new road rather than the planned reopening of some crossings, but there’s not much about anything specific online.

Can we possibly have Ashington?

The Northumberland Line version of the announcement is online. It includes a line about tickets will be available from one week ahead, which is presumably why sales and timetable sites are so variable?

Ah thanks, that sounds better. I take the point about them using a sort of standard wording.

I thought it was 50% that stopped at Manors, as came out in previous discussions? That‘s what RTT looks like.

I think back when the Plessey Viaduct collapse occurred some people on here wondered why southbound services hadn’t been diverted via Bedlington, and that’s possibly when it came up that route knowledge was no longer being maintained. I suspect for the normal annual cyclic maintenance they do...

Yes. For a long time until comparatively recently LNER and their predecessors ran regular route learning services via Bedlington. The single line from Morpeth Junction to Bedlington is a passenger line, as per the sectional appendix, but as a single line is not going to be high capacity. There...

There was a period where a single 444 ran in service from Southampton to Portsmouth Harbour in the morning peak, but it was only one way. Some sort of positioning move used for passenger service. Also, to add to earlier replies the Lymington shuttle is a single 450, was previously a 158 on...

Please see here for an earlier discussion: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/northumberland-line-to-be-re-opened-to-passengers.204414/page-32#post-6861149

Is there any precedent for a Transport Secretary ever producing major rail benefits for their own constituency? I thought there were government rules in place to prevent such focussed decision making. For a start the treasury would never be a walkover.

I see on the Northumberland Line website there are overnight level crossing closures at North Seaton, (7th Dec), and Marchey’s House, (14th Dec), for work ‘to complete the upgrade’. Taking it right to the wire? eg for Marchey’s House:

It’s not exactly a new idea is it? Might be new to that location but I‘m sure I‘ve seen it before, and years ago.

About 600 gullible MPs?

At relatively new ‘3rd rail’ depots such as at Northam (Southampton), there is no third rail within the buildings. A unit is driven in as far as it can be, (given that the back shoes will still be in contact), and then a dropper cable from an overhead trolley system is plugged into one of the...

Who says the 458 are being retained? AIUI from previous threads SWR have said they aren’t a permanent part of the fleet.

The 701 fleet consists of 750 vehicles, as planned in 2017 they were to replace a mixed fleet of 455, 456, 458, and 707, which totalled 742 vehicles. The 701s on their own will not add significant numbers of trains or carriages. At the time the additional overall capacity would have been...