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  1. Agent_Squash

    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    Without wondering too much off into speculative land - they use the same path south of Lancaster, and as far as I'm aware there isn't a separate freight path in the hours where it doesn't extend to Windermere. There does need to be a solution other than send everyone up the M6 at some point -...
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    If the line is going to be out of action for a while, it may well be worth extending the trains currently terminating at Lancaster up to Windermere, and running the connections from Kendal. At least it would get the passengers in roughly the right place, rather than a jaunt up the A6!
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    No, I mean’t reactive. If the strategy was proactive it would’ve been mitigated ASAP. Obviously this thread is bringing to light the unique tidal conditions that Morecambe Bay brings though, and there is a a lot of complexity in that.
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    Please read my other comment… 1711145872 NR is actively following a reactive maintenance strategy. I would hope that this risk was identified months ago, but it doesn’t look like it was.
  5. Agent_Squash

    LNER to pilot removal of Off-Peak tickets

    Ironically, they’re now using all the ideas they couldn’t under privatisation!
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    Just proves, yet again, that maintenance budgets matter.
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    HS2 Old Oak Common

    Paddington has two through platforms and three turn backs. OOC will have 4 through platforms and three turn backs.
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    HS2 Old Oak Common

    Still an enhancement over PAD. Terminating trains in the middle, through trains on the outside - a reliability improvement too.
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    HS2 Old Oak Common

    Not as far as I’m aware - there’s 4 EL platforms to handle terminating and through moves.
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    HS2 Old Oak Common

    Easier connections and a more reliable Elizabeth Line through the removal of autoreverse. That’s the benefit for GWML passengers. Again, this is standard practice in most of Europe. It’s a mainline railway connection station.
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    HS2 Old Oak Common

    My apologies, should’ve been clearer - edited for clarity.
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    HS2 Old Oak Common

    Firstly, you’ve missed a key connection - OOC will be connected to HS2, which will allow vastly improved connections to the North West. Don’t forget that the current opposition to HS2 to Euston is largely Rishi’s pet project - he’ll most likely be gone in a few months time. OOC isn’t a...
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    HS2 Old Oak Common

    Berlin’s ‘central’ station isn’t actually in the centre. Neither is Vienna. So long as it’s well connected, which OOC will be, then it doesn’t really make a difference. The roads to OOC haven’t been built yet, so I don’t get how you can say there’s no road connections (which doesn’t matter that...
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    HS2 Old Oak Common

    I didn’t suggest trains from the west should terminate at OOC. Rather the headline journey time should be from OOC, and Paddington is just the ‘end of the line’. Empty EL trains will start from OOC. Long distance passengers will be able to get on the seats before the tube passengers do. Seems...
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    HS2 Old Oak Common

    HS2 will certainly end up having services to Manchester on it. It’s just a case of when. Passengers will be on the Elizabeth line sooner, with more chance of getting a seat. As I also said (and you ignored, again), it’s highly likely an overground interchange will be added. It also speeds up...

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