Recent content by IanXC

Doncaster and South Kirkby towards Wakefield are addressed in Network Rail's "Doncaster Area Strategic Advice 2021" (doesn't link well, under Eastern Region on this page https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/long-term-planning/). These documents are very much kite flying, but they...

For Köln I've thought for a good while that Köln Messe/Deutz is the answer to where you can provide suitable platforms. Potentially makes a little bit of a mess of the segregation of traffic when there is an international train stood in the platform but I don't think that is insurmountable.

Its not really at the station itself - head towards Blossom Street and just before the Railway Institute next to the car hire place there is a left luggage provider.

Thats quite an interesting idea - I don't have any idea how easy it would be to accommodate sterile platforms and so on at Strasbourg? Theoretically yes, but I suspect it is very much down to how much subsidy the Luxembourg government would be willing to stump up - which would presumably only...

The printed PDFs will be derived from the schedule data. If the operational reversal code has been used for the stop rather than the passenger call/reversal stop then the data will be wrong, and the passengers stops won't show. I'd be astounded if GWR are planning trains to reverse at Combe...

2tph TPE core to Newcastle requires infrastructure interventions north of York - the choice has been to give the current capacity to the additional LNER Newcastle terminator from December, so I wouldn't count my chickens on that one yet. The path of least resistance would appear to be for it to...

This predates the aforementioned swap of Hull/Scarborough - Piccadilly/Liverpool services. Subsequent to that the Newcastle - Airport has been withdrawn and its place in the core taken by the Scarborough. So the 4 express tph are: Newcastle - Liverpool Hull - Liverpool Redcar - Manchester...

Sounds more like an error in schedules to me.

Interestingly the Luxembourg government have been for many years very keen on establishing an express service to Brussels, rather than relying on the existing service which has rather a lot of stops. Unfortunately the railway geography doesn't really support an onward service into Germany, but...

For clarity these names are gone: Directly Operated Railways Operator of Last Resort It is now: DfT Operator Limited (DFTO)

I suspect the issue is that where there is S-Class data rules can be applied to the whole system, whereas for the C-Class scenario you've described this has to be specifically programmed for each location.

From the signallers perspective the answer to this is probably significantly influenced by the signal box(es) they work. Whether the box is Absolute Block, Track Circuit Block or Axle Counters will have a significant impact on the number of occasions I though think - even the age of the...

Given that there are only 3 signals on the slow itself, a double yellow when the route indicator is on would only be pulling back one aspect - and I'm guessing the turnout from the Slow back onto the Fast is also not particularly fast? Seems like the logical answer to me. Even if the driver...

Where are the Network Rail route boundaries in this area? Given the persistent talk of expanding Alliances as step 1 of GBR I'm guessing that the new infrastructure is Central Route rather than West Coast South? Or do I recall it is signalled from Rugby ROC (which is West Coast South)?

I don't think that's true. As just one example, prior to the transfer of the depot facility owner from EMR to Northern, Neville Hill depot had 4 different organisations undertaking maintenance on the site. East Midlands Railway Northern Trains Siemens Hitachi (Now reduced to 3 with the exit...