Recent content by lancastrian

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/transpennine-route-upgrade-and-electrification-updates-cp6.88054/page-236#post-6361730 I was just watching a YouTube video, that was referenced earlier in the thread. The driver who made it and downloaded it mentioned that the two...

Will the second platform be reopened at Polesworth and a footbridge put back?

A question for those in the "Know". Are they planning to install all the electrification infrastructure while they are building the line? Or will it be bad planning as usual, so they will wait to do it after it has been opened. To me common sense dictates that they will do it all during the...

Fair comment, I wasn't aware of that.

We would there be a need to raise/low the pan at Wigan? I thought that the services where going into North Western Station. as that is already wired there should be no problems.

Surely the real solution is to build a few more carriages and extend the sets to 6/7/8 car sets. This was done with the Penderlino's why not with these sets?

Now that would be an excellent idea. The site of the old station is still available, it is right in the centre of Coppull. There has been much new housing built in the village since the old station was closed. Plus it could be easily served by the Liverpool to Preston services. The major cost...

Bolton Platform 1 has seen electric services from it, but rarely. I have seen class 331's stabled there a number of times. It is opposite a car park for Iceland and a few other shops on what was the site of the old L & Y Good Shed.

Really have you ever travelled between Colne & Skipton? I have many times and not only is it a real pain to get through Colne. After the M65 there is a short (about half mile section) of 2 lanes, then for the rest of the journey to meet the A59, just before Skipton it is single lane roads, with...

It was good to see the video of the lift shafts and the bridges going in, although I really don't know why they need to put the annoying music over the video. I went past the Reston site in May between Alnmouth & Edinburgh as my wife & I visited Edinburgh Castle. It is good to see how thing are...

The main reason that the numbers nosed dived was the stupid decision to close the line to Ventnor, many of the holiday makers went on to Ventnor and as with other lines to Holiday Places being closed in all or part no one asked the travelling public what they wanted. The one thing they DIDN'T...

I have been looking into it after your question, I am on holiday at this time, so there are some of my books I cannot access at this time. This is what I can tell you. It was located between Guide Bridge & the stations of Flowery Field & Hyde North. On the Woodhead Line. I have tried to find...

An excellent idea, and reopen the line from Cambridge to Huntingdon.

Plus the Penwortham Bypass is built along part of the former West Lancashire Railway from Middleforth Junction to Back Lane Level Crossing site. The underpass A59 between New Longton and Longton Stations is now a road and also I believe that the track bed through Longton is built upon as is the...

Personally I think that they are 'Over Charged', 'Shocking' I know.