Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) - Latest plans & speculation

[endofthetunnel]

Off-topic, but could a small guide rail be positioned above each canopy with a cheap remotely operated camera able to run along and underneath it which would move from end to end of the canopy. This could allow inspection without making a line closure necessary, which I assume would be very costly.

I’m sure there’s solutions to each of the individual problems, but overall, there is a huge cost in building, maintaining and running/keeping safe, clean etc a station which has any kind of building, canopy, toilets and so on. I expect in many cases, including this one, there was either money for one big new station or the new small one and improvements to many others.
Either way a new topic is needed if this is to be discussed more.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Is this part of Bradford councils cunning plan to have more unconnected stations in Bradford than Pontefract?

Two of Ponte-Carlo's stations are actually connected, so they've already stolen a march on Bradford!

The geography of Bradford (with the city centre being at the base of a 'bowl') will always be an issue to building a new railway through the centre.

 

[AlexSJW]

Government states ''there will not be a new railway across the Pennines''. The idea of a new fast railway was to increase communications expanding the Northern economy. You know like that London centric HS2 stuff.

 

[Grumpy]

Cant believe anyone thought there would be

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Meanwhile, the Austrians have just opened a new 80-mile railway between Graz and Klagenfurt, the central feature being the 20-mile Koralm tunnel.
It's taken 25 years to build, has cost about €7 billion (£6 billion), and has a linespeed of 230 km/h (145mph) throughout.
They were able to upgrade about 25 miles of existing branch lines at each end of the route, the rest being new alignment.


Our Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) has a budget of £11 billion (unclear if this includes the last phase, Stalybridge-Huddersfield*).
Manchester-York is 70 miles, and the maximum speed will be 110mph for a limited distance in the Calder Valley (with 125mph Church Fenton-York).

* it's 18 miles from Stalybridge to Huddersfield, a little shorter than the length of the new Koralm tunnel

 

[HSTEd]

And just liek that, the little remaining impetus for the continuation of HS2 dies.

Without the cover of NPR, it is toast.

A "new" railway that is still crippled by all the inherent compromises of the old railway.