Direct from one to the other across a viaduct sunk in Morecambe Bay
Use amphibious cars and run into Preston Bus Station....or the fast fly-shuttle boats on the Lancaster Canal...
Well.........I know where the original horse-drawn packet boat "Swift" is believed to be sunk (in one of the boathouses) if anyone wants to refloat, rebuild, and stick hydrofoils on itDirect from one to the other across a viaduct sunk in Morecambe Bay
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Use amphibious cars and run into Preston Bus Station
On your first point, I can't see them moving RPH significantly, perhaps they'll build a new big hospital at somewhere like Halton to replace that and Westmorland General.
Does that change with Windermere electrification, plus potential bi-modes on the Barrow services?
I don't know without access to a full timetable PIF and a couple of long nights to look at it, at which point my (very soon to be) manager will ask me to send a bill
Lmao. I'll have a look at rough approximation using RTT.I don't know without access to a full timetable PIF and a couple of long nights to look at it, at which point my (very soon to be) manager will ask me send a bill
By way of approximation, converting to EMU would allow c.30 seconds per stop (average) to be knocked off, with potentially extra 30 seconds here and there on steep climbs or accelerating away from low PSRs. Once on Battery a Windermere would probably not gain any additional time (hence OLE needing to make it around the corner from Oxenholme to Kendal). Adding a station stop can be approximated to 2 minutes extra in the existing locals.
So we need Windermere to get OHLE electrification, to permit service to either Bailrigg or my proposed Broughton Parkway essentially. And for both, you'd need the Cumbrian Coast to BIF to be electrified, no?
) , no?For one in the Windermere, I'd say OLE to Kendal + Battery would do it. Depends heavily on where the Avantis fit in behind that though of course.
Depends how you distribute the stops, and whether you can eat into turnrounds. That'd need proper modelling though as the SRTs will be different for stopping twice between Preston and Lancaster rather than skipping. The BIF service would only need to be capable of OLE on the WCML - Bi-mode or Battery would be fine (subject to being able to operate it), if you could get a conventional linespeed tweak out of the Cumbrian Coast Line (potentially in tandem with resignalling, which is being talked about at some level).
The thing with Buckshaw park and ride is that I don't think it was meant for many people to be using it? I live near the station and it's made the news with how many cars park on the road leading up to the station because the car park never has enough space... they even had to put double yellow lines on the road leading up to the station to try and stop them!
www.bbc.co.uk
In no way would Cottam Parkway directly address the query raised by the title of this thread as it will not be a closed station being reopened on the original line of the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway. I did note the phrase "land ownership issues" appearing in the article.Interesting to see that Cottam Parkway has been approved to encourage a shift in journeys from road to rail and to reduce road traffic at key congestion hotspots around Preston:
Plans for £24m Preston rail station approved
It is unclear when construction of Cottam Parkway will begin due to land ownership issues.
Such a shame the mainline can't contribute in a similar way when there is clearly the demand!
But is it more important for rail to take shopping trips from small towns/local villages into Preston away from the roads, or for rail to take London-Glasgow journeys away from air or road?
More like enabling expansion of Preston to the east and the new road to the M55.
Where does this desire eminate from. Have you a source for this?
If you read the link I posted, you will see it is Lancashire Council.
Cottam Parkway will be on the western fringe of Preston...
I get left and right wrong as well. Clearly it was what I meant when I noted the new link to the M55.
....and is clearly aimed at road traffic from the Fylde on the A583/M55, whether to Preston or Manchester or both. As already indicated, it's miles from the A6/M6.
Eh, I think it's more aimed at the huge new housing developments in Cottam and Lea themselves, but the road connection on the new Western Distributor will prove useful, yeah.....and is clearly aimed at road traffic from the Fylde on the A583/M55, whether to Preston or Manchester or both. As already indicated, it's miles from the A6/M6.
OT: AIUI it might replace Salwick but with more trains
Oh aye, but it wouldn't be RUK without a generous dollop of pedantry....
