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    Proposals for Uckfield Line Electrification following Gibb Report

    Hot air continues to be spouted on this subject. Electrification and restoration to twin track were both mooted as some of the benefits to the East Sussex rail network brought about by privatisation - not one of these benefits has happened. The Home Secretary - our MP (er, just), to her...
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    Proposals for Uckfield Line Electrification following Gibb Report

    Not sure there is any need to belittle the worthy efforts of people to fill in gaps in the rail network such as Skipton Colne and Uckfield Lewes. There is rather more to it than "reopening scenic lines through relatively empty sections of the countryside". Uckfield Lewes is now part of the BML2...
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    Comparison of safety between overhead line vs third rail electrification systems

    If 3rd rail is unsafe then rip it all up and replace it with OH. Will they do that. Of course not. 3rd rail is as safe as people allow it to be. If they - non railway people - are dumb enough to trespass on a 3rd rail powered railway then they are twice as idiotic. Take it to it's logical...
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    Proposals for Uckfield Line Electrification following Gibb Report

    So Peter being robbed to pay Paul? I recall hearing that the Tunbridge Wells West - Eridge closure in 85 was a part exchange for electrification of Hastings - Tonbridge. Today's bits and pieces railway probably couldn't be so creative then. And today's costs are going off planet. BR did a decent...
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    Proposals for Uckfield Line Electrification following Gibb Report

    Re earlier posts about mooted costs of platform extensions etc on the Uckfield line.....£20 million or so just to extend platforms, up to £200 million to electrify and restore to twin track? Really? 30 years have passed - but BR electrified Hastings Tonbridge with associated infrastructure work...
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    Proposals for Uckfield Line Electrification following Gibb Report

    And BCR formulae are notably unreliable. How many times is that proved wrong when - for example- a reopening scheme actually makes it past the No can do desk and passenger useage far exceeds what is predicted? High costs? How much of that can go down to poor project management? How much of...
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    Proposals for Uckfield Line Electrification following Gibb Report

    Not sure I understand the question you finish with. I hate to think how much the platform extensions cost. Today's railway seems to fall into the 'Stick an extra zero on the bill" category. Benefits of redoubling? Put it this way - a single line sectioned railway is half a railway twice as...
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    Proposals for Uckfield Line Electrification following Gibb Report

    All I have seen is Grayling showing no interest in public funding for it. There is much going on behind the scenes with regard to private sector involvement. A look at the BML2 website will show a recent update.
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    Proposals for Uckfield Line Electrification following Gibb Report

    Nothing wrong with 171's at all. Probably Southern's best units so far as passenger comfort goes. But totally needless to be running these anywhere in the predominantly 3rd rail network - indeed most of their mileage is over that 3rd rail. Yes - this talk of electrification has all...
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    DEMU 60019 mainline status soon

    A coincidence over many years and many classes of rolling stock! Inevitable that numbers will coincide......m
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    Warwickshire wanderer hastings tour

    Another great day out on our preserved Hastings with it's mutiplicity of carriages forming this 6 car train. Stratford upon Avon was the destination and the train ran pretty much to time throughout and those who wanted to check out Shakespeare's neighbourhood had plenty of time to do just that...
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    DEMU 60019 mainline status soon

    Another Hastings power car will soon have it's main line status confirmed - 60019 (ex 1013 or 202001 as it was in it's NSE days on the East Grinstead line). Hastings Diesels name their power cars and I am hearing they already have a name for 60019. Personally I would've liked to see a King...
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    Lewes - official vandalism 1969

    It's over part of the old trackbed leading up to the river - the other side of Tesco. Follow footpath alongside river away from Tesco and the town centre and slightly to your right you will see where there is a small hill that leads up onto the trackbed. There is one small bridge which is all...
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    Lewes - official vandalism 1969

    Paid a visit to my colleague at Lewes signal box Saturday afternoon. It was right in front of the box that BR and East Sussex County Council colluded between them to close 7 miles of railway to Uckfield - an act of utter vandalism they would probably never have gotten away with a year or two...

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