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    Question: Upgrade or large renewal schemes successfully completed by RailTrack

    It's widely said that the combination of fines paid to operators and costs that arose after the Hatfield Rail Crash, as well as the spiralling costs of the West Coast Railway Modernisation Programme, were what forced Railtrack into administration in 2001, 7 years after it was created. I was...
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    Disruption around Retford due to signal failure (17/02/19)

    Signal failure. Better or worse than downed overhead wires? Edit: Title should be 'signalling system failure'. If a mod wants to edit. Both lines blocked.
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    Connington ECML OHLE Headspan conversions

    Just noticed (by fluke) that NR converted (or is in the process of converting) by the looks of things 6 headpans on the ECML at Connington into Portals like the trial boom at Potters Bar. https://twitter.com/networkrail/status/946395340940308480 Does anyone 'in the know' have any idea how...
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    Kings Cross Throat Remodelling

    Anyone else see the plans in Rail magazine to re-model the throat to Kings Cross and bring Gasworks Tunnel no. 3 back into usage between Jan and March 2020? Thoughts/Ideas?

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