To the north are more overbridges and they'd have to buy out at least one industrial unit to create a car park roughly the current size. There's some apparent vacant land around a small stadium at Bowshaw but that's probably match day parking. Hopefully 100m or so south would be enough to get a reasonable wire gradient, possibly using the principles developed for Steventon, and would put the platforms alongside the current car park.
Probably cheaper and easier to buy out Aldi, Pets at Home and Joseph Bathrooms and relocate it there, including a bus turning circle or crossing point. I've done the walk from Dronfield to Sheffield FC a couple of times - not the easiest road to cross.
Sheffield FC was founded in 1857, the world's first football team. They intend to move to former Sheffield Transport's large ground at Meadowhead, back in Sheffield, as soon as planning issues and finance can be resolved. Selling their current ground for housing is part of that. In any event the site is on a curved cutting as the railway prepares to enter Bradway Tunnel.
Well this is news indeed.
I believe the pier is on solid ground, the river passing to the east of it which is why there is a third span there that can't ever have had a track in it (unless it was a siding that ended immediately to the south). The river passes under the existing tracks just north of the road bridge, where a girder is visible between the tracks.
The public will have to put up with a lot of disruptions to get Sheffield, the Sheaf Valley and Dronfield wired - let alone through Leicester, Derby, Chesterfield and to Nottingham. The mile of wires in open country aren't a problem, it's the bridges, platforms and tunnels that cause the delays with opportunities to make other improvements when a rare chance occurs. Miss them and we're stuck for maybe 50 years or more.
From the posts above I see that Sheffield has complexities. But Leicester, Derby and Nottingham-really? Leicester has the London Road Bridge, but a similar situation in Cardiff was solved with voltage-ontrolled clearance: https://www.networkrailmediacentre....demolition-thanks-to-electric-resistant-paint
We shall see. I'll repeat what I've said previously. I can't see continuous electrification into Sheffield before 2035. I hope I'm proved wrong. If I am I hope opportunities to improve capacity in the Sheffield area are fully taken.
Leicester was the one I was thinking would cause the greatest disruption when it was wired. The solution for London Road will not be as quick as stringing wires over the line.
Bridges aren't the only problems, and it only takes a little too tight clearance to cause a major problem. Voltage Controlled clearance is an option, but one bridge is not equal to another so don't assume that the solution that worked for Cardiff will work for Leicester. Bridges also are often more complex than can be seen as they may have buried services in or around them, and if you've got a gas or water main underneath the road it's a lot more difficult to swing by in a weekend with a prefab replacement kit.
I don't see any reason why not buses from Loughborough.
Attenborough poses a head-scratcher for me. You've got a level crossing, a footbridge and a station all in close proximity to each other.
Providing a new, higher, footbridge will be expensive (though peanuts in comparison to the whole scheme) but is hardly a show-stopper - unless the footbridge is a unique listed surviving original, of course.
Loughborough does have a bigger car park than it used to have, but the roads out of the station are not great. That was my logic for using East Midlands Parkway anyway.
Agreed. I am sure a Category F2 station will not be allowed to kibosh the whole of RS5. There is always a way - if the low bridge at Leicester can be overcome, I’m sure the footbridge at Attenborough can be as well.
That may relate to surveying for signals, or some surveying which was done as part of HS2 planning.
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I agree, that one's going to be a cracker. The real issue is the housing all around; if you attempt to put either the road or the railway on a viaduct there will be a riot. Worth noting that if you use Google Maps, you can't do a Streetview of the four houses south-east of the level crossing, which sounds as if someone knows their rights...
The piers look old but the bridge deck and steps look modern. The postbox appears to be closed though... Also doubt you'd need lifts, as there is level access to both platforms from the pavement to the platforms
There are 5 listed bridges between Sheet Stores and Derby. 3 of them are overline in the flood plain of the Derwent, so they might create some headaches if the clearances aren't adequate.
historicengland.org.uk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:DfT_Category_F2_stations for those, like me, haven't a clue what this is
I think they could argue that in the time anyone took to go up and down all the ramps, they would have been quicker to wait for the train(s) to pass by and just go over the crossing. It's not quite the same situation as Lincoln where they had to provide lifts, but it could be closed a lot longer and there were far more pedestrian movements too.
The have been a lot of accidents at Attenborough crossing
