WCML Easter 2023 Engineering Works?

[matt]

Does anyone know what engineering works is planned for Easter 2023, specifically the southern WCML?

 

[The Planner]

Does anyone know what engineering works is planned for Easter 2023, specifically the southern WCML?

Last plan I saw was all lines closed MK to Euston for the four days, as is Norton Bridge to Crewe. Pretty much all of it is closed Easter Sunday as far as Carlisle.

 

[philosopher]

Last plan I saw was all lines closed MK to Euston for the four days, as is Norton Bridge to Crewe. Pretty much all of it is closed Easter Sunday as far as Carlisle.

The WCML being closed somewhere south of Rugby is fast coming an Easter tradition. 2021 is the only year in recent years I actually remember the WCML south being open over most of the four day Easter period.

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

The WCML being closed somewhere south of Rugby is fast coming an Easter tradition. 2021 is the only year in recent years I actually remember the WCML south being open over most of the four day Easter period.

Roll on HS2 then, which will bypass the most troublesome sections of the WCML, and never (well, hardly ever) close.
But before then HS2 construction will cause WCML disruption at Euston, Handsacre (north of Lichfield), and Crewe and doubtless some other places.

 

[The Planner]

Roll on HS2 then, which will bypass the most troublesome sections of the WCML, and never (well, hardly ever) close.
But before then HS2 construction will cause WCML disruption at Euston, Handsacre (north of Lichfield), and Crewe and doubtless some other places.

Handsacre won't do much apart from when the flyover is needed, slow lines for most of that. Euston is already as disruptive as it can be with high side blocks. Crewe will be big though, though its not technically HS2 related. Domestic renewals will be more disruptive on all regions, depending on how much the asset has to be sweated going forward.