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Many other bridges in this area were done 10 years ago. I haven't seen anything to suggest there is an ongoing pipeline of structures work that'd enable gauge clearance or electrification. So unless we get announcements etc., I think this bridge replacement happened because of some combination...

Interesting detail on this latest BBC piece is that high profile stakeholders like the Mayor of South Yorkshire were given virtually no prior notice of the service cuts, and that EMR had failed to mention that this reduced timetable was being developed at a regular being the previous week: BBC...

The bare minimum to get the thread heading in the general direction of topic would be to at bring in Kasabian or Englebert Humperdinck (both from Leicester). Even if it were possible, this investment would probably only get you from Wigston South to Wigston North Junctions Being absolutely...

Hitachi would not have needed to read Wikipedia too know all this. That they failed to supervise their designers, factories &/or supply chain suggests serious programme management or organisational failures in the UK and probably Japan also. It is convenient for people (including senior...

At least Kettering customers have the option of the Connect 2tph service. To be fair to EMR that's what they are trying to do - improve the reliability and predictability of the service by recognising the reality that Hitachi can't get more than 18 trains out of bed in the morning, and that by...

Over on Twitter, rail journo Roger Ford said this: https://x.com/i/status/2078148571967152152

There's a morning train from these places that joins to a Nottingham IC at Kettering around 0915. The 1835 from London splits at Kettering into Nottingham and Melton portions. This is mostly to help retain crew competence as a diversionary route when things go up the swanny around Harborough

The basic issue is a lack of capacity at Etches Park coupled to a maintenance/repair backlog that Hitachi allowed to develop. I am not sure in what world that adding 4 examples of a different type of unreliable train to Etches Park's to-do list is going to help anything. Plus look at the 175...

And this points to a pointed question that out esteemed railway press might ask. Start by asking Hitachi whether they investigated subcontracting some Cl222 work to Alstom to free up capacity/catch up with their backlog? If it hasn't been looked at, why not? If it has, why has it not...

Looking at EMR media releases, it's quite a change in tone and in my experience it's unusual for the blame to be so clearly laid at the door if a single supplier. You don't normally do this if you want to maintain a great working relationship. Roger Ford, in a tweeted reply to Rail Magazine's...

It will obviously need to retain access both from the station building and car park. On the car park side, there is no suitable under cover space so will they be out in the open or will a tin shed be thrown up? In the main building, I guess they'll have to go in the booking hall as the...

Agree. Existing EMU will only work when 1. There is not enough pure EMU work 2. The platform and train is new and suitable enough for an OEM to do the work. That gives suitably low risk and long lifetime to help the economics. 3. Other interventions like a significant refurbing of the interior...

If I was "World King", I'd be asking EMR if they've got the capacity/cheap fare balance right on Saturday mornings, or if there's enough flexibility for football/rugby/cricket fixtures Lots of helpful insider knowledge here. Thank you for sharing. A bit more flexibility comes from IC units...

Reengineering them as single ended 5-cars (semi) permanently coupled back to back. might get you 32-40 seats compared to existing 2x5 car. But EMR would need about 23 10-car trains to cover 19 diagrams and so this idea only needs 46 driving vehicles. 66 are already built and would be redundant...

Retrofitting batteries to modern stock brings its own complications in that there is so much more dependence on software integration. Hitachi are doing it themselves in a train platform that's currently in production. That also gives you 25 or more years of service to recover the investment...

BBC were reporting the same, hence I asked to reopen but thank you for posting this. The previous procurement failed to appoint a contractor.

Do LU trains carry hundreds of litres of diesel? (Because that was the context you missed)

We do share this view! It's clear a lot of people are fed up. I'm supposed to be essential travelling with EMR tomorrow and I realise that - at minimum - I'm going to have to look at the state of things early tomorrow to judge whether they can be relied on to run the services I want to catch...

Could just paint the train white, that would at least have a marginal impact on heating of the exterior of the train. Roof mounted HVAC kit is a lot more prominent on some more modern trains - Cl700 is a good example - I guess this reflects more capable HVAC being specified for higher ambient...

It implies Rock Rail had by that point accepted 008/009, which are still not carrying passengers. Around that time, I think EMR were therefore diagramming 3 to 4 out of 7 which seems reasonable. It's now more like 6 from 12 (in terms of what is visible on Rail Record). But that 12 includes...