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Is there a speed restriction between Burton and Derby?

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I'm making what is likely to be my last train ride for a while

We do seem to be going damn slowly. Is there any blanket speed restriction?
 
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Comstock said:
I'm making what is likely to be my last train ride for a while

We do seem to be going damn slowly. Is there any blanket speed restriction?
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I don't see why there'd be any speed restriction; it's not a zombie apocalypse (yet)! Maybe you're just on Northern?
 
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Cross country. It's a one stop journey I make daily-or did. Definitely slower both BUT to DBY and back the other way.
 
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Comstock said:
Cross country. It's a one stop journey I make daily-or did. Definitely slower both BUT to DBY and back the other way.
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What was the journey time? What train were you on? Was the train on time?
 
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The 8.21 this morning was definitely late. I got the 10.38 back the other way and to be honest I had other things on my mind but we were definitely going much slower than normal.
 
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Only ESR I think on currently is a 60mph just north of Burton but it’s one bridge and shouldn’t affect timings too much.
 
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Comstock said:
The 8.21 this morning was definitely late. I got the 10.38 back the other way and to be honest I had other things on my mind but we were definitely going much slower than normal.
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The 08:21 looks as though it was following a very late running freight train.
 
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Comstock said:
The 8.21 this morning was definitely late. I got the 10.38 back the other way and to be honest I had other things on my mind but we were definitely going much slower than normal.
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The 0821 was following a fright train which was 5 hours late. Also the run into Derby would possibly be under caution signals due to the Crewe service being in platform 3 already. The 1038 was only 1 min late into Burton and would of had no caution signals as the 1030 Plymouth was already at Clay Mills when the 1038 was leaving Derby.
 
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Thank you everyone. Yes I saw the frighteningly late freight train but didn't make the connection. And yes we were particularly slow going into Derby

All those factors coupled with my general nerves and anxiety I suffer from probably made me think we were going a lot slower than we were.I

Anyway so long railway. Catch you on the flip side. Stay safe and healthy all those who work on there. :)
 
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As a technical point of order, all main line railway in the UK has a speed restriction and has done since we moved away from only signing and publishing speeds lower than "linespeed" and gave every bit of track a "permissible speed*".

* or differential permissible speed, non-standard differential permissible speed** or enhanced permissible speed
** or declared ourselves Scottish and made our own rules up
 
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