Exactly...
Partially agreed or that some would involve diverting other existing services some hours to use all hourly but from what I have seen the EWR teams didn't and still don't understand the bigger freight picture and hence don't understand and anticipate the likely demand.
and hideous it is too! I would have thought it fun and informative for kids to be able to watch trains go by at Garth Park in Bicester, for instance.
Perhaps people will 'acclimatise' to it.
Are you sure? I would expect this to be the maximum passenger speed.
There is capacity for 1tph, more on E-W itself, Oxford and Denbigh Hall are the limiting factors. Bicester isnt 775m but Claydon is. Its 100mph HST differential.
The fairly new box wagons seem to glide along on CWR with barely a squeak. Bogie technology has come a long wayHow loud are current freight trains? I'm imagining many folk are 'picturing' the sound of trains of scores of coal wagons clunk- clunk- clunking through the night. Maybe even the sound of marshallings of numerous trains, maybe train couplings tightening, clanking ...
I'm recalling picnicing at Didcot Railway centre and a train (ok a passenger train) just gliding by on the Avoiding Line without disturbing us at all!
Perhaps folk would prefer overlooking a line bounded by permanent continuous high fences (like the M25) rather than an occasional 'train in the country side'.
And that's without the 'environmental benefit' of less traffic on thetoadsroads
Of course EWR crosses the route of the Great Central, which had a lot of freight traffic and is celebrating 50 years of preservation this year. In June (17/18th) there will be a 50 wagon freight train running so those clunk - clunk - clunking sounds and train couplings will be heard again!How loud are current freight trains? I'm imagining many folk are 'picturing' the sound of trains of scores of coal wagons clunk- clunk- clunking through the night. Maybe even the sound of marshallings of numerous trains, maybe train couplings tightening, clanking ...
I'm recalling picnicing at Didcot Railway centre and a train (ok a passenger train) just gliding by on the Avoiding Line without disturbing us at all!
Perhaps folk would prefer overlooking a line bounded by permanent continuous high fences (like the M25) rather than an occasional 'train in the country side'.
And that's without the 'environmental benefit' of less traffic on thetoadsroads
Something which will be felt harshly when a freight can’t be accepted onto the WCML and it ends up stopping the job on the Down Bletchley. This has been raised by me with the project and senior management many times.
Can't the Calvert Loop be used for this?
1. No - there was a discussion in a separate thread split from this one:
We had a thread about the DfT announcement last week, it includes all the official details.
Tracks at Verney junction on the eastern side of HS2 line.The latest edition of the EWR newsletter has just landed, with a report on the current progress. Has anyone been out there (with a drone?) to see where exactly the tracklaying has reached?
As I understand it, HS2 is crossing EWR's right of way so HS2 is responsible for the cost of building the bridge that takes EWR over HS2 including the necessary embankments each side of the bridge. However I would think that EWR would want their own contractors to do the tracklaying and S&T work.
That’s exactly what’s happening, as described in the recently linked newsletter, and discussed a number of times in this thread. It’s always been understood because the length of embankments and the structures HS2 are responsible for are only shown on their engineering drawings, and there’s a similar gap in the TWA drawings for EWR. There‘s an HS2 drawing in post #317 that broadly defines “their“ area.
I don't think SIMBIDS can be installed from new anymore it has to be proper Bi-Directional signalling.
It's presumably a noise abatement fence, so it has to be big to dissipate the noise.
