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Councils pretty much have to come up with their transport plans based on getting people on buses and bikes because it’s impossible to guarantee that a rail project will get built. Rail is totally at the mercy of the government/treasury/transport secretary’s whims.

A few pictures from a bike ride today - new parapets on Marsh Lane bridge look very tidy and track removal has continued towards the Royal Portbury Dock Road bridge.

It'll be near the m4 Metrobus route, which will (eventually) be rerouted through Brabazon. I'm not sure what the plan is for the 2a but that currently terminates at a temporary turning loop just short of the development so it's a safe bet that it'll go in once the road is finished. I'd hope for...

Do you have a link to the proposal? Spent a bit of time googling and I couldn't find anything about it happening.

The roundabout next to where the station will be in Portishead has now had its trees chopped down, along with most of the others in the area. A hive of activity today, especially with cable diversions also underway.

There’s clearly been an amount of time and money spent that would make it very silly for the government to cancel the project now. However, this is the Treasury we’re talking about, so never assume they’ll make the rational decision when they have the alternative option of spending less.

Having passed by the site today, there are OHLE masts being installed for the new GWML/EL alignment. Unfortunately didn’t get a picture but good to see more progress.

According to the newsletter you link, the barriers "begin where the Colne Valley viaduct starts and then stretch back northwards for nearly 500 metres either side of the railway line", so they're on the section immediately to the north of the viaduct and not on the viaduct itself. The image...

I live in the area so might do the same. There’s a section you can currently walk along between the town and Sheepway so I’ll try and get some pictures of that.

The UDS will certainly be wired, no doubt about that. The slows were wired all the way from Bedford to Wellingborough despite never being used by passenger services, so there's no way they'll leave out slows coming into Leicester. I suspect it'll be portals all the way through, considering the...

Good to hear there’s progress in the works, but surely NR wouldn’t have designed a project which precluded four-tracking when that’s on the agenda for the next decade or so?

That’s interesting, I wonder if it’s why the viaducts into Curzon St seem to be taking so long. The Lawley Middleway bridge has been sat there fully assembled for ages and the big steel piers for the canal section were definitely supposed to have some work done for the deck by now.

Happened to walk over the Welford Road overbridge a little south of LEI today and there were a couple of wooden pegs in the ground by the tracks (see attached photo). Not sure whether it’s electrification-based. If they are pile locations they seem badly placed though, they seem to be in...

It’s actually 9. 2 Bristol 2 South Wales 2 Devon/Cornwall (one Plymouth, one Penzance) 2 Oxford/Worcester 1 Cheltenham

Unfortunately/luckily, TfW will not be running regular light trams. The 398s have heavy batteries in them which brings them close to the weight of a regular train.

Last time this was discussed I think it was reported that design work was finished from Wigston to Syston but not Syston to Trent Junction. Which kind of implies the Leicester section could begin first, but I don’t think there’s a solid conclusion as to whether it will do.

I regularly get the train past it between Birmingham and Leicester. The abutment at the London end (so next to the XC tracks) is coming along well, lots of rebar in place and quite a few sections of concrete cast now. This was when I last travelled there nearly a month ago so I’m sure it’s...

My understanding, from talking to people who know more about it than I, is that for Midlands Rail Hub to happen with extra Birmingham-Leicester services you need 4 tracks from Wigston to Syston but not necessarily a flyover. Then again, Midlands Rail Hub is far from guaranteed so who knows.

The plans for 4-tracking through Leicester involve the current lines being the mains with reliefs to the east - the western island would be Down/Up London lines and then the eastern island would be Down/Up Birmingham-Peterborough lines, so the extra platform would go on the eastern side.

Yeah for the truss bridge there’s notably no sign of it and (as far as I can tell) no space nearby big enough to assemble it fully. Unless they’re planning on doing it where the current weathering steel bridge is being built, but then surely they’d have wanted to do it before that bridge?