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    Northern unit reallocation

    Which begs the question, why did the disposal of the 319s go ahead if the 323s were delayed? Why not keep them on for another 6 months?
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    Northern unit reallocation

    Quite. Seems odd that the withdrawal went ahead when the Class 323s were delayed coming up from the Midlands.
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    Northern unit reallocation

    Realtimetrains shows the 331s working all Leeds north-west lines.
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    Northern unit reallocation

    Sounds like a nightmare for those putting diagrams together.
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    Northern unit reallocation

    3-car Class 331s are now running on the Leeds North-West routes. My understanding was that this was going to happen when the platform extensions currently underway were completed, allowing 2x3-car services to run. Unfortunately it seems the units are being run already, before the platform works...
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    Wortley Curve West Yorkshire

    It's got to be controlled - you can be prosecuted for causing it to spread. Unfortunately there is knotweed all over the railway network so NR are probably best placed to deal with it. AFAIUI the Wortley Curve was held by BRB (Residuary) Ltd, which was responsible for all the residual bits of...
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    Wortley Curve West Yorkshire

    Great to hear Network Rail have bought it. I will have to ask them for a knotweed jam making franchise...
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    Wortley Curve West Yorkshire

    Sounds like a plan. Apparently it's full of Japanese knotweed - but it is actually edible and has a nice lemony rhubarb taste. We could turn it all into jam and make our money back in no time.
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    Wortley Curve West Yorkshire

    Sold for £47,000 https://bidonline-propertyauctions.eddisons.com/auctions/8799/ibpu10149/lot-details/4fa0f3d2-8cbe-4a10-a54c-b0d800f74f83 Buyer not stated, but I think that's standard.
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    LNER to pilot removal of Off-Peak tickets

    Whatever the rights and wrongs of these proposals, this is looking at the past with BR blue tinted spectacles. Long distance fares have been set at commercial rates since 1968, in other words whatever the market can bear. BR regularly jacked up fares in the face of high demand rather than...
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    LNER to pilot removal of Off-Peak tickets

    Twitter isn't the general public, and especially not rail twitter.
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade: could there be scope for futher speed increases?

    Remember TRU is costing 11 billion. Messing around with an existing railway is very expensive. We haven't built a transport tunnel in hard rock in the UK for some time, but we have for various other applications - water industry and mining in particular.
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    Where did they promise this? I've never seen it. Euston-Glasgow is possible in 3h53 'albeit non-stop', but that's not really relevant for a standard timetabled train in full traffic. The aim of TRU is to achieve reliable journey time and capacity improvements within the limitations of the...
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    It will be 40 minutes at best.
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    Wortley Curve West Yorkshire

    It's owned by Railway Paths whose remit is developing old railway alignments as footpaths and cycleways. So it's surplus to their requirements and I guess they see it as a liability. TBH it's probably better off owned by someone else.
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    Wortley Curve West Yorkshire

    Acknowledging the operational difficulties, nevertheless given the price of the land it seems a no-brainer for WYCA or a local council to purchase for potential future use.
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    While there were certainly elements of stop-go to investment I'd argue BR had got it reasonably together from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. The rollout of IC125 and associated linespeed improvements seem to have been done pretty well, though no doubt there were issues at the time. There was...
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    The problem is less the overall amount of money put into rail but rather the "shopping trolley" approach to spending with the government crashing from one side of the aisle to the other. Electrify! Don't electrify! Electrify again! But not that bit! Rolling stock orders, loads of them! Then no...
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    Could HS2 have been planned and built in the 1980s?

    The thing to remember is that pretty much all high speed lines are essentially decided on the same "capacity with speed an important extra benefit" basis. Shinkansen was built because the existing Japanese lines were metre-gauge, very slow and low capacity. It made sense to build a new line...
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    Why are Political Leaders stepping down? (Mark Drakeford resigns as First Minister of Wales)

    He's 69 so not much of a surprise. How many people are still working full time at that age? Konrad Adenauer and Churchill are very much the outliers in carrying on in politics until a great age.

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