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Recent content by josh-j

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    TPE Plan for the future

    I'm curious now as to what needs to happen before the Huddersfield - Manchester stopper can transfer back to Northern, if the one to Leeds is transferring already the end of this year. Why are they different?
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    It seems like quite a lot will be happening next week with works at Morley according to the TRU site, line closed all week. Works at Huddersfield this weekend as well. Quite pleased to see stuff happening, it's going to be interesting once we get to the longer closures at Huddersfield (later...
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    That's a really good video, thanks for highlighting it. I didn't quite realise the extent of works to the east of Huddersfield until the flyover section of the presentation. Really happy this project is progressing!
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    ECML South disruption - OLE down 09/12

    I just happened upon this article from 2019 which mentions a conversion at Connington on the ECML: There are photos of some of the converted structures :D
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    GWR IET’s Lots of 5 Car Sets PAD > South Wales

    That's genuinely interesting. My question would be - why? Very odd. It's like a money merry go round, they could just provide funding, the "need" to charge interest to BR at all (let alone a bad rate) can only be pure politics. Even accepting the premise that national debt is inherently a bad...
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    GWR IET’s Lots of 5 Car Sets PAD > South Wales

    But the government doesn't need third parties essentially issuing loans for assets at a premium - the government is the ultimate loan issuer for the whole economy, its how money exists at all! Anyway I'll leave it there as this is all off topic. o_O
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    GWR IET’s Lots of 5 Car Sets PAD > South Wales

    I don't think that's wrong - The government could do exactly what the ROSCOs do, and then the financial benefit would (could - see below) be ours, not theirs. It's like the housing market (council houses -> private rental) but that's *technically* (but not really entirely!) off topic. But I...
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    Unhelpful WMT Journey Check info.

    Lol, what a mess. Journeycheck is already stupidly implemented - a combined service pointless split between operators without even a central homepage to visit covering them all (try going to www.journeycheck.com - what a friendly welcome). Of course there's National Rail Enquiries, which should...
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    Euston departure board to be moved

    I just baulk at the idea of making an important public service a participant in ad revenue privacy invasion, as a point of principle. The fact the NRE site has a tonne of trackers is ridiculous enough already, frankly. I don't think it is spurious to make that argument, not in our...
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    Euston departure board to be moved

    Can we please just keep the screens? I have a smart phone but nobody should have to rely on one for basic services. Having to use an app means having to do business with one of two enormous tech companies, one of which is well known for scooping up as much personal details as it can in order to...
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    Euston departure board to be moved

    The railway is a public service, not a business. If it was a business, it would have to make a profit. And society would be worse off as a result. I do agree it's about proportionality, but we're talking about ripping the boards down, putting them in stupid places instead and replacing their...
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    Euston departure board to be moved

    Or the government could just fund public services properly, instead of funding themselves and their mates. The idea that we can only have trains if they're ad-supported is pretty ridiculous - not to disagree with the folks here pointing out the money that could be "made" by advertising in such...
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    The plan is (or at least it was last time I checked) to add a glass lantern to that gap in the main roof. I think it may have had one at some point in the past? Edit: Yes I think that's still the case - that press release mentions it: "...refurbished roof structure, with restored lantern"
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    April to June 2023 Passenger numbers released

    It would help somewhat if we built HS2. But that's the point really - new rail lines get tied up in politics and cancelled, but new roads are just a given and happen all the time. It's no wonder most travel is done by car, but it's not because cars are great it's because lots of money and effort...
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    Northern Ad hoc cancellations

    That's a good question actually isn't it - I don't know!

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