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The barriers are indeed quite high, higher than those currently being installed on the approach to Curzon Street. Given that the majority of electric train noise comes from the wheel/rails, I'd be interested to understand the mechanics of the need for such a high parapet.

For those interested in such technical details, one of the new FRP footbridges was load tested recently, beyond it's working load and up to it's ultimate design load. The bridge was loaded with tanks of water for a period of time, with laser measurements of deflects being compared to the design...

There is a permanent link from the OXD loop into the HS2 IMD, for delivery/removal purposes. There is also a permanent link from the HS2 mainline into the IMD, for infrastructure maintenance. A Bicester facing loop had multiple options developed - all expensive, space consumptive and...

Some construction updates: Bletchley High Level Station Bletchley Flyover Salden Wood Swanbourne Station (former site) Moco Farm (bridge jacking trail) Winslow Station Verney Junction (former site) Claydon Loop (east end) 1708333313 Some construction updates (2 of 2): Claydon...

West Midlands Railways 'Safety (@rse covering) Announcements' The proximity of many West Midlands Railways stations is close enough, such that the location triggered automated announcements often cut each other out. i.e.: 'This is a service for Bromsgrove, the next station...' 'We are now...

A query concerning accessibility is liable to have a baring on Equality Act compliance. Consequently, I wouldn't be surprised if NR are taking particular care in considering how they reply and what impact that reply (along with the issue you raised) may have on them as a duty holder. NR has an...

What a marvellous record. Only regret is that the control room footage couldn't have been taken whilst still in operation - it looks bereft of life without the signalmen, illuminated panels, row of mugs all along the top etc.

WMRE is looking to establish the cost of minimal interventions to allow reopening of Wedgwood or Barlston. Alternatively it's looking to establish a cost for a new station at Trentham, linked with formal closure of Wedgwood and Barlston.

The 'HS2 / EWR Integration Area' has now been fully handed over to EWR, to complete all works in that section.

The parish council...sorry...Town Council, demanded the car park have a capacity in excess of that provided at Guildford. One assumes they weren't genuinely surprised to have that demand politely rebutted.

Last year I was an a lesser WCML station, awaiting a slow evening train. An Avanti WC service arrived first, but had trouble getting a door step to retrack before departing. The conductor had a couple of goes at releasing and then retracking the doors, but the offending step wouldn't retrack...

The civils contractor, Laign O'Rourke, has a dedicated precast concrete production factory ('Explore') at Worksop that needs justifying with a continual flow of fee paying orders, so they have a vested interest in the designs having as much pre-cast concreet as possible. This can be seen on...

Frequently used to happen on a CrossCountry service from Stoke-on-Trent to Manchester Piccadilly, just after 8am every weekday morning. If it was a double train, no problem. However, they started running it as a single, with standing down the ailse being the only option. When the train...

I was on a later afternoon Avanti service from Euston to Liverpool last Wednesday - cash only at the shop. Some chap returned to his seat with nothing, noting to his colleague that it was cash only. The shop was doing a good trade though, so clearly plenty of people in possession of cash and...

At around 21:10 hrs on 25 May 2023, an empty wagon ran away from the exchange sidings at the Ministry of Defence’s Kineton Munitions Depot in Warwickshire. The wagon ran away for over one mile (1.6 km). In doing so, it passed over two farm crossings and a level crossing on a public road. The...