Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

[D6130]

Does anyone know if there's much else to do at Batley on the Up, Manchester bound side? I visited for the first time in a while today and there seems to be a lot of works materials etc there just for installing the overheads and finishing off the footbridge. I know there's no plans for the speculated on loop, but I wondered if there could be anything happening access-wise, which has never been good from the East for as long as I've known it despite an old access road to Grange Road, and is currently a bit worse off with a footpath directly to the station from Back Station Road blocked by the footbridge work?

I've noticed that the Jo Cox memorial garden has been removed from the Down platform and replaced by a couple of containers. Hopefully this is just a temporary measure and it will be reinstated at the end of the works.

 

[Jamesrob637]

So will it be pan up/down in the Gledholt tunnels for a couple of years at the end of this decade?

 

[fat_boy_pete]

So will it be pan up/down in the Gledholt tunnels for a couple of years at the end of this decade?

Personally I would assume in Huddersfield station itself. So visible pantograph movement and dwell time available to resolve any transient issues.

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Personally I would assume in Huddersfield station itself. So visible pantograph movement and dwell time available to resolve any transient issues.

If they wire through the tunnels to Springwood Jn (with an overlap towards Marsden) EMUs terminating from the east would be able to run as ECS and reverse west of the tunnels back into the station.
Otherwise the station is the obvious place to switch power with 802s.

 

[waverley47]

If they wire through the tunnels to Springwood Jn (with an overlap towards Marsden) EMUs terminating from the east would be able to run as ECS and reverse west of the tunnels back into the station.
Otherwise the station is the obvious place to switch power with 802s.

There's two slow through platforms, and a six car bay platform, going in at Huddersfield for exactly that reason. Spinning on the main line at Springwood Jn would eat capacity needlessly.

The general plan is for the Mancs - Hudds stopper to spin in the new platform 3, and the Leeds - Hudds and Bradford - Hudds stoppers to spin in the new platforms 5/6.

 

[vic-rijrode]

There's two slow through platforms, and a six car bay platform, going in at Huddersfield for exactly that reason. Spinning on the main line at Springwood Jn would eat capacity needlessly.

The general plan is for the Mancs - Hudds stopper to spin in the new platform 3, and the Leeds - Hudds and Bradford - Hudds stoppers to spin in the new platforms 5/6.

As a railway enthusiast (not privy to technical terms), I find the mental picture of trains "spinning" in platforms rather alarming.Is this horizontal or vertical spinning?

(Actually i do understand what "spinning" means in this context...or at least I think I do)

 

[Ballyheigue]

Not sure if this has been mentioned in another thread, but the 144 Pacer where the men's shed used to be at Huddersfield Station appears to have been cut up on site.