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Moderator note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/fife-rail-electrification-decarbonisation.288646/ No, NR should have the power to buy land at current value. It does whatever it wants to make the railway work better, then it gets to sell it on with planning permission for...

The problem: we have towns like Egham: Cut in half by an at-grade railway line, with no easy opportunity to replace the level crossings with bridges or underpasses Level crossings here make a nationally important infrastructure scheme (Southern Rail Access to Heathrow) difficult, as well as...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/hs2-construction.149100/ I know. I'm talking about using carnet ticketing to soften commuter demand on the WCML at Euston for years. It would be costly, but we don't really have any other option other than letting the mistakes of...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/government-increase-use-of-public-transport.202690/ An advantage of a pay-per-use road charging scheme powered by vehicle data reporting is that it can also cover parking, including in otherwise unrestricted areas. The positioning...

There's no point not stopping an HS2 train at OOC when it's expected that 1/3 of London HS2 passengers will get on or off there. The firm expectation is that people will take the Elizabeth line to OOC and change there rather than the Tube to Euston. While superficially similar OOC is a very...

Back in 2007 Hitachi fitted an HST power car plus an adjoining Mk3 carriage with a hybrid electric battery storage system. At the time, the IEP was to involve HST-style diesel power cars and a battery-electric hybrid system was on the cards for Hitachi's offering. With the HSTs now being planned...

When the topic of newly-electrified train services around Manchester is discussed the length of the platform at Salford Crescent seems to be brought up quite often. My understanding is that it is limited to only 6x23m carriages, which is fine at the moment when the longest trains are doubled-up...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/23/osborne-high-speed-rail-manchester-leeds HS3 here we come...

From the Camden New Journal: http://www.camdennewjournal.com/news/2014/may/manhattan-style-housing-scheme-planned-hs2-redevelopment-euston In effect it looks like the Euston Area Plan idea is what will end up being built, with the entirety of the Euston station and throat covered in parks and...

One of the reasons that the original Euston rebuild fell through was that it was then calculated that it would take longer to build than predicted and wouldn't allow it to open for the necessary 2026 date. The Hybrid bill proposal is capable of being built in the right time frame but now since...

I have heard that the Stratford International station was added by a TWAO after the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act was passed, but I cannot find much on what the scheme originally included for the site. I have heard references to a Stratford Depot, which could likely just refer to the current link...

Stop HS2 have posted a screenshot of a paragraph of the report due tomorrow (17th March 2014): https://twitter.com/stophs2/status/445286699275255808/photo/1 Effectively all that had been expected. The Phase 2 plans are a few years away from being shovel-ready at the very least so it would...

In the Manchester HS2 plans, the north chord from Manchester up to Preston uses wrong-way running with trains to the North on the northeastern track and to Manchester on the southwestern track. Here's the Manchester end of the chord Here's the Preston end of the chord In the first PDF you can...

I came across this PDF presentation while Googling about the costs of a Newcastle HS2 extension. It says 'effective 15 February 2014' and I can find nothing else about it, so it does seem to be new. http://www.railroadinvest.com/downloads_2014/hs3_nml_railroad.pdf It's an idea by the...

The HS2 route as planned today is going to be the route that will be built, give or take a few tens of metres at the very most. The only important change that can be made is for passive or active provision of junctions for future extensions; the Phase 1 line was modified to include building the...

The Space Train proposals for the Victoria line had the fourth-rail electrification system replaced with a conductor bar on the roof of the tunnels, which allowed the supply voltage to be safely increased to 1.5kV with its resulting efficiency benefits. Since the subsurface lines have much more...

2H12 2040 Helensburgh Central to Edinburgh down 122 minutes at Dalmuir and then cancelled. No trains between Dumbarton Central and Dalmuir for about two hours but things seem to be running fine now, including the Fort William sleeper. Have heard on grapevine that it was near Milton, where...

Looking at Google Maps it seems that the majority of the CML has reasonably large radius curves and reasonably not-short distances between stations. When the line is electrified, and given new EMUs, what would be the maximum feasible non-tilting speed? If it were possible to be upgraded to...

The current sleeper stock is going to need replaced at some point in the not so distant future, unless there were very extensive refurbishments done which would still be limited by the original carriage layout. The current SLEP coaches don't seem to meet the expectations of customers either, if...

The TVM at my local station only lists the UK-wide railcards, but I have a Scottish Youth Railcard which has the same 1/3 discount on standard off-peak travel as the standard 16-25 railcard. Would it be permissible to select the 16-25 option on the TVM if it's a SYR I would be using with it? The...