Decarbonising the Western (Great Western Electrification - Part 2)

[JonathanH]

It would be a waste of a 387 to put it on such a slow and short route as Marlow anyway

You could have said the same thing about a 165 in 1993. Ultimately a standard fleet is the most efficient way to run a railway.

 

[30907]

You could have said the same thing about a 165 in 1993. Ultimately a standard fleet is the most efficient way to run a railway.

Except that a 165 fitted and didn't require additional infrastructure.
Wires to Bourne End, electric bus to Marlow?

 

[JonathanH]

Except that a 165 fitted and didn't require additional infrastructure.
Wires to Bourne End, electric bus to Marlow?

Yes, but it was more the point that the 165 on the Marlow line could equally have been running mainline services from Oxford to Paddington.

 

[td97]

Network Rail delivered a talk last month about Overhead Line Electrification in the Wales & Western region. The speaker comments that Filton Bank to Bristol Temple Meads would be the first infill choice of electrification (1:07:20 in the video)

Managing Overhead Line (OLE) on Network Rail’s Wales & Western region - The PWI

PWI West of England Section Meeting (Hybrid)

www.thepwi.org

 

[Snow1964]

Filton Bank to Bristol Temple Meads is one of the 4 sections show in pink on map on page 4 as part of tranche 0 (others are Chippenham-Bristol, Didcot /Swindon - just north of Oxford on Cotswold line, and the Acton spur line towards Willesden)

Tranche 1 (orange on map) is Newbury to Exeter, Bristol to Taunton, loop via Weston super Mare, Bath-Westbury, Chippenham-Trowbridge, Frome and Westbury loops, Merehead branch, plus north of Oxford towards Banbury or Bicester (map doesn't name it)

Tranche 2 (dark blue on map) is lines to Severn beach, Avonmouth, Portbury and via Henbury. Yate and Swindon to Gloucester through to Bromsgrove including branch to Worcester, and Gloucester to Severn Tunnel Junction

Tranche 3 (light green on map) is all Thames valley branches

Tranche 4 (light blue on map) is Exeter-Plymouth, plus branches to Exmouth, Paignton, Okehampton and Barnstaple

Tranche 5 (purple) is lines in Cornwall from Plymouth l including the branches

The document was linked in post #29

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Filton Bank to Temple Meads has to be the biggest no- brained of them all.

 

[RobShipway]

Filton Bank to Bristol Temple Meads is one of the 4 sections show in pink on map on page 4 as part of tranche 0 (others are Chippenham-Bristol, Didcot /Swindon - just north of Oxford on Cotswold line, and the Acton spur line towards Willesden)

Tranche 1 (orange on map) is Newbury to Exeter, Bristol to Taunton, loop via Weston super Mare, Bath-Westbury, Chippenham-Trowbridge, Frome and Westbury loops, Merehead branch, plus north of Oxford towards Banbury or Bicester (map doesn't name it)

Tranche 2 (dark blue on map) is lines to Severn beach, Avonmouth, Portbury and via Henbury. Yate and Swindon to Gloucester through to Bromsgrove including branch to Worcester, and Gloucester to Severn Tunnel Junction

Tranche 3 (light green on map) is all Thames valley branches

Tranche 4 (light blue on map) is Exeter-Plymouth, plus branches to Exmouth, Paignton, Okehampton and Barnstaple

Tranche 5 (purple) is lines in Cornwall from Plymouth l including the branches

The document was linked in post #29

 

[Basil Jet]

Filton Bank to Bristol Temple Meads is one of the 4 sections show in pink on map on page 4 as part of tranche 0 (others are Chippenham-Bristol, Didcot /Swindon - just north of Oxford on Cotswold line,

Hanborough, to be precise

and the Acton spur line towards Willesden)

Tranche 1 (orange on map) is Newbury to Exeter, Bristol to Taunton, loop via Weston super Mare, Bath-Westbury, Chippenham-Trowbridge, Frome and Westbury loops, Merehead branch, plus north of Oxford towards Banbury or Bicester (map doesn't name it)

Banbury

Tranche 2 (dark blue on map) is lines to Severn beach, Avonmouth, Portbury and via Henbury. Yate and Swindon to Gloucester through to Bromsgrove including branch to Worcester, and Gloucester to Severn Tunnel Junction

Tranche 3 (light green on map) is all Thames valley branches

Tranche 4 (light blue on map) is Exeter-Plymouth, plus branches to Exmouth, Paignton, Okehampton and Barnstaple

Tranche 5 (purple) is lines in Cornwall from Plymouth l including the branches

The document was linked in post #29

 

[Sly Old Fox]

No way will any of that lot be authorised any time soon.