Nowadays the railway seems to be edging towards being a 24/7 service. Trains start very early in the morning and don't finish running until the small hours. This leaves in some cases just a couple of hours of no trains running. This is clearly not enough time to cary out engineering works. Weekend works seem the obvious choice but there seems to be increasing hostility towards bus replacements at the weekends. When they do get possessions for a decent length of time they must be under enormous pressure to get as much stuff done while they have the line. If NR cannot get decent length possessions to carry out engineering works and when they do they are under pressure to hand it back, is there not the potential for another incident like at grayrigg??
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