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    Wigan-Bolton electrification. Construction updates only please

    This is one of, if not the best example of NR project communications. Of course real test is that the local residents receive and are aware of it and find it useful. From the outside it does seem that many other projects are not very good at this sort of thing
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    DfT press release on Northern Powerhouse Rail

    The Mayor's proposal must be also taken with the revised HS2 proposal, from one of the same Mayor's, which would link into it. I.e mostly back to the previous scheme
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    Wigan-Bolton electrification. Construction updates only please

    Anyone know why it wasn´t done?
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    Study launched into Bristol Temple Meads electrification plan

    Is this within the local mayor remit or with National Government? Also I suspect had the budget for electrification been broken even more it may have reached Temple Meads some years ago before being almost immediately modified for other works not in the original plans
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    HS2 update Transport Select Committee 10/1/24

    As a German colleague said about Stuttgart 21: "Don't include the year in which you intend to finish in the project name as it then becomes very obvious when it's late"
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    "HS2 Back on Track" - front page of Sunday Express - private sector plan to build Birmingham to Manchester

    What are the 'Stafford bypass' option(s) mentioned and how do they differ from 2a?
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    DB considers London service once again

    Could a separated departure hall, wherever it is either downstairs or upstairs, be dedicated first class & business?. Presumably takes less space and might free up a lot of capacity in the current area?
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    Trenitalia to introduce Frecciarossa services to Munich

    what route will they take in Italy, and do they have indicative journey times?
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    Wigan-Bolton electrification. Construction updates only please

    there is a dedicated thread to these engineering works https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/engineering-works-between-manchester-and-bolton.260514/
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    Netherlands advice

    within the last year NS accept contactless from your bank card, so you can avoid the 1€ that way
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    Thameslink Peterborough line Sunday & bank holiday timetable

    Looking at 1st Jan, which I think is a Sunday timetable. I was under impression this is not so much of a one-off though
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    Thameslink Peterborough line Sunday & bank holiday timetable

    If I read it correctly the Peterborough line Sunday service terminates at KX and does not go through the core, at least in early January. Yet other services from ECML do go through the core. Anyone know why?
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    Better stop covering the countryside in housing then
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    Very Light Rail stock ordered for passenger trials

    Ah ok, so that could be a trial, but if success main use would still be as I described? Would make a lot of sense to trial on already existing infrastructure
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    Very Light Rail stock ordered for passenger trials

    I thought the idea was based around using them for trams and trying to avoid the costly need to have to divert every utility in the road as with the reduced weight the risk of damage to said utility was sufficiently reduced. So really to open up new tram possibilities rather than anything on the...
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    Not between Manchester & Leeds! NPR (any version) maybe. More seats could be relatively easily solved fairly quickly with longer trains
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    German Rail in decline ?

    This is true, but the problem is this seems to happen a lot of the time and makes a poor case for rail travel vs alternatives. Whichever way you look at it the timekeeping of DB both locally and nationally is awful
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    DB to build Germany's new tunnel

    they have a more, to my mind, sensible way of doing it by building relatively short sections at a time. But that's probably not a topic for this thread 1700771593 I suspect Stuttgart 21 will unlock a lot of to be ex railway land for very profitbale development
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    DB to build Germany's new tunnel

    As they haven't got anywhere near starting it you cannot possibly say that

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