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A 2010 discussion in this forum included ‘swans on the line’. This is not a new thing by any measure. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/weird-and-wonderful-delays.37149/#post-506835

They aren’t all used by XC, as a check of RTT for the Dec TT shows. But surely once they have the stock XC should apply to reinstate their hourly service between at least Reading and York to its pre-2020 quantity? As far as a quick check suggests, there are three northbound gaps at 07xx, 13xx...

I just read the description of On Track with Tim’s members only video, and it’s written as though it’s gone.

There’s no evidence of the regular Southampton extensions returning, they’ve not been mentioned in any XC track access proposals over the last few years, although I haven’t checked recently. They were only ever 2 hourly, and I think the single daily Newcastle service that currently starts from...

As I understood it, a pillar is always a free standing column. A pilaster is a vertical feature (usually flat?), built ‘out of‘ a wall or abutment, so could be described as proud of the background, while being fully secured into it. I don’t think any of the photos show pillars, they’re more...

I suppose the very wide up platform at St Denys with the building and canopy set well back is also a feature of a potential future four tracking?

I had luckily followed up a forum member’s kind offer to insure my reactor back in 2024… :D

I tell them I‘m glad they called, because my under stairs personal nuclear reactor has sprung a leak.

Enough for it to be covered in some detail in a route study document not that long ago. Wessex Route study of 2015, basically a ‘freight capacity’ driven scheme to provide an additional hourly freight path in each direction. Flyover just east of the station, and additional loops west of the...

A 1949 OS map shows a fairly detailed track layout with only a slight, albeit significant difference to today’s layout. There was still an empty space wide enough for at least a temporary up slow, all the way past the relatively new flyover including the ramps, it would have been on the west...

No longer a rule. That explicit requirement was removed from the group standards quite a while ago, ie well over 10 years. I’ll try and find the thread we had about it… So in this thread about DVTs from 2013...

If it helps you get your facts in order, I’d say definitely yes. But you must not offer it to them, unless you’ve seen what they have worked out - you don’t need to tell them about anything they’ve missed.

I don’t know the revised date, but originally it was going to be fairly soon. I believe though that when the track changes are made the whole of the GWML, HEx and Elizabeth Line services will all pass through the new platforms, ie both the mains will also be temporarily slewed into into the...

Although if there were any planned improvements the timetable wouldn’t be changed until after the 222s had left service anyway.

No, it really doesn’t make sense, I’m pretty sure there were discussions here a few years ago and TfL were quoted as ‘not interested’…

Something I wish I’d known 25 years ago... My late wife’s ashes were interred in my local cemetery, the plot has a fairly simple ‘in ground’ memorial tablet, but I chose the type with a flower vase in the corner, you may have seen the type of memorial in your local cemetery. My experience...

Interesting, if I’d included a guess that’s probably very close to what I was thinking. Am I correct in thinking the final legs of the District to Wimbledon and Putney were never included though?

What’s the eventual solution to SMA11 being abandoned? Include in a future Piccadilly Line signalling scheme?

No. In the case of Greenford, why would TfL even want a short, disconnected, non-electrified branch? It’s not going to revert to a through service anytime soon. I don’t believe GBR will change the status quo on either branch.

:lol:o_O maybe they should go back to wooden canopies?