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Of course, but these aren't going to benefit much. It might mean a quieter start from Haymarket but they'll have to fire up the engines anyway, just a few minutes later at most.

Is the timing of this work over the last few weeks not connected to the completion of the Levenmouth project? If you have staff otherwise paid for and sitting idle, use them to do a bit of the next project. The Dalmeny electrification is certainly interesting because it only makes sense...

The owner may well have been advised that the likelihood of any scheme being acceptable to planners and the heritage body, as well as being financially viable, was close to nil. In that situation it isn't irrational to sit it out and wait to see if grant funding to repair or otherwise...

Anyone could write anything they like into the sale documents or planning policy for the land of the former hotel. If no one is willing to stump up the cash to build a replica, then a replica won't ever be built. All that planning can do is block possibilities, rather than creating them. If you...

Being able to avoid a reversal on a running line seems to be the most useful capability. If you're going to need to cross a through line (as we aren't talking about a central turnback) the faster you can be clear of it, the better.

Difficult but not impossible. The lack of anything but a shoestring budget to fix such a major issue is a systemic issue. Without even meeting the current standards, it's impossible to design a solution for level boarding. Another aspect of this is that we have probably exhausted the range of...

Ah, I see now that there isn't a crossover to let trains from the down loop to rejoin the up line. So with the current track arrangement, you can't just pop into the loop and wait for a clear path to come back. In the grand scheme of things it seems like something that could be added in if...

Does anyone know if the Dalmeny electrification will include the loops? If it does, then it provides some flexibility for electric trains from the east to run through Haymarket and serve South Gyle and/or Edinburgh Gateway. The 0718 from North Berwick runs to Haymarket, with a return at 1740...

Yes, there is a problem. There isn't the money and ability to change our built environment to suit our modern requirements. Ealing Broadway is now just as important a station as Woolwich at the other end of the line. To be able to do as much for its local community as Woolwich does, with its...

So why then should Ealing remain a two storey suburb when along the line, the same level of service makes it possible for a private developer to not only build new housing but also an entire station? It's totally unnatural for these two storey homes to persist near such a major transport node...

I don't actually disagree here. Once the principle that TfL should be encouraged to redevelop at density above and around their stations is established, even if it means buildings much larger than local NIMBYs would want, then the natural next question is the land around the stations. Why...

Getting to the standard platform height is not an engineering problem. It's a money problem. TfL don't have much cash to spend on fairly obviously useful improvements. If we want to solve the problem of level boarding in the TfL area then we need to think of ways that TfL can receive more...

If the cost of ditching processes is enormous, then so is the cost of following them. The law of diminishing returns reigns supreme again. We were able to bumble along with our current systems in place when we still had spare capacity that was easy to bring online. Building flats in cities was...

The blight angle is pretty strong. No one (of any great importance) is buying or developing property near Heathrow without being aware of the concepts for three and four runways. Once the engineering drawings are out, after rounds and rounds of optimisation, it's unlikely that a different...

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It really wouldn't. The fact that we don't have the industrial capacity to rebuild our housing stock is the bigger problem. At our current rate it will take 2000 years to replace all of our housing. Meanwhile, the demand we have on housing keeps changing. In London especially, the idea that the...

It's the difference between national and local infrastructure. If the problem is that people in London need more flights to Tenerife then the answer is expansion at Gatwick and other secondary airports which attract mostly a local customer base. If the problem is that the country as a whole...

I'm mostly thinking of the Uxbridge branch and it being shared between the Piccadilly and the Metropolitan line. Untangling that is going to be pretty difficult. With some more rolling stock it may be possible to extend existing Northfields terminators westwards. But, even if you can physically...

The private sector is rightly uninterested in making major capital investments at Heathrow when the business of running the UK's most important airport is so heavily regulated. Governments of every political colour essentially want to have their cake and eat it - for shiny things to show off to...

Where does it say Siemens will maintain the trams themselves? All I can see is an infrastructure contract.