Xenophon PCDGS
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Can anyone give any updated news as to matters appertaining thereto and a date when this station might be seen as being in timetable service?
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Went pass the site of the new station on Sunday, looks like the platforms have been built with a little waiting shelter having been installed.
I've amended the title accordingly. Cranbrook (Kent) is the bigger place and I'd have had no idea this other Cranbrook existed or was in Devon!To clarify for those from the SE rather than the SW, this is Cranbrook near Exeter and not Cranbrook in Kent.
I've amended the title accordingly. Cranbrook (Kent) is the bigger place and I'd have had no idea this other Cranbrook existed or was in Devon!
NRE suggests the first trains are on Sunday 26 July.
http://traintimes.org.uk/whimple/pinhoe/1000/26july
I've amended the title accordingly. Cranbrook (Kent) is the bigger place and I'd have had no idea this other Cranbrook existed or was in Devon!
It's planned to have 15,000 houses built there over the next decade - it'll be bigger soon enough!
It's good news for the redoubling to Honiton, as the development will hasten the day when an all day half hour frequency will be required along that stretch.
Am I right in thinking that the addition of Cranbrook to East Devon another key player in the addition of a Honiton/Axminster service to the Devon Metro Phase 2, creating a Axminster or Honiton All stops service to Okehampton or Barnstaple while allowing the SWT's to be sped up a little with the removal of some stops like Pinhoe or Whimple?
Am I right in thinking that the addition of Cranbrook to East Devon another key player in the addition of a Honiton/Axminster service to the Devon Metro Phase 2, creating a Axminster or Honiton All stops service to Okehampton or Barnstaple while allowing the SWT's to be sped up a little with the removal of some stops like Pinhoe or Whimple?
I think you misread: it was removal of stops not stations that was said, ie, the SWT services from Waterloo to Exeter not stopping at Pinhoe and Wimple, with trains on a new Axminster or Honiton to Barnstaple service (presumably run by FGW) taking on these stations instead. That's how I read it anyway.What officially produced information shows the intended removal of either the existing stations of either Pinhoe or Whimple...or have I misread your posting?
As the SWT services already sit at Exeter for 40 minutes before returning why would they want to speed them up, the few minutes saved wouldn't make any difference?
EAST Devons latest railway station is taking shape with the platform and shelters now in place along with the access road and car parks.
Cranbrook is the growing new town near Clyst Honiton which will eventually have 15,000 residents say planners. However the promised railway station is more than a year behind schedule although it is expected to open this year.
I think you misread: it was removal of stops not stations that was said, ie, the SWT services from Waterloo to Exeter not stopping at Pinhoe and Wimple, with trains on a new Axminster or Honiton to Barnstaple service (presumably run by FGW) taking on these stations instead. That's how I read it anyway.
Then again, I've not seen any documentation to that effect either!
As I understand it, the intention is for an hourly all stations Exeter-Axminster service to supplement the Exeter-Waterloo service, giving Cranbrook, Honiton and Axminster effectively a half hourly service to Exeter, while Whimple, Pinhoe and Feniton will then have at least one train every hour instead of alternate stops every 2 hours. Won't be for a while yet though.
Is such not planned for the 'rush hours'* by this December?
* a difficult concept to grasp down here.
I have heard on the grapevine that the opening of Cranbrook station has yet again been delayed, this time to late October/Early November. Whilst the construction of the station is nearing completion, I have heard that Network Rail have still not done the necessary alterations to the track height and signalling. The raising of the track was due to be carried out this month, but allegedly the tamping machine to be used for this has been needed in the South East to repair buckled rails. It has been said that there is only one tamping machine in the UK of this kind-surely this can't be the case?
What signalling alterations are required?I have heard that Network Rail have still not done the necessary alterations to the track height and signalling.
What signalling alterations are required?
Is sometime in October or November 2015 still the latest hoped-for time period for the opening of Cranbrook station?