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Parallel single tracks means two tracks side-by side that look to the casual observer like double track, but at some point they separate and go to two different destinations. Instead of being an up line and a down line, each line is two-way, to and from its respective destination, with no...

There are loops and sidings just south of Dalmeny station that could add to the stk's to be wired. There may also be a runoff along the curve towards Winchburgh. No. Nothing heard in over two years. We really need to be hearing something about battery train procurement.

From Google satellite view, the distance along the route from the most westerly existing 4-track portal at Carrick Knowe to the south end of the Forth Bridge approach viaduct just north of Dalmeny station seems to be within a whisker of 10km, so that works out to an average separation of one...

Where my aunt and uncle used to live, the nearby streets were named after the sons of the head of the company that built all the houses.

They say the highway and footpath at Roughtown Road bridge will be unaltered, but seem not to have noticed that there is no footpath.

A reminder that, as announced in #8192, the detailed proposals for Mossley, and the Stalybridge - Diggle section more generally, are due to go online tomorrow at the following address, with drop-in events on Wednesday to Friday: http://www.networkrail.co.uk/stalybridgetodiggle

It also includes a major part of 2B, minus the Crewe tunnel (a big de-speccing) and minus the part that is common with NPR (already made part of NPR by the government). Also I must have missed where it says anything about bite-sized chunks. Doesn't it just have one chunk for 2A and another for...

In a post on Skyscrapercity, user manc829 says this: I haven't personally read the item at the link, and can't quote it, because of the paywall.

Already under discussion in the following thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/plan-for-cheaper-hs2-northern-leg-unveiled.273917/

I suppose you could have Ashton\Lyne and Newcastle\Lyme.

Or, equally, Woolwich Arse.

Nowhere. The black hole is all part of spending in the current financial year.

An example of the sort of thing I was referring to is that the BAM and Amey press releases appear to suggest that the newly awarded work includes the four-tracking between Huddersfield and Ravensthorpe, which I assumed was part of contracts already in progress, given the earthworks that are...

If by "the tunnel" you mean the Crewe tunnel, I agree. If you mean the Manchester tunnel, then no. Its removal from the scope of HS2 is not something the mayors have done in today's announcement. Both the old and new governments had already announced their intention of going ahead with a...

They haven't dropped the Manchester tunnel as far as I can see. It's still needed, but as a result of decisions taken by the Tory government and confirmed by the Labour government, it's now part of (what remains of) NPR, not HS2. They've tried to avoid including the Crewe tunnel but may not...