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PiccVic was of course a much bigger network and would have seen trains running from Alderley Edge to Bolton via Whitefield. If the route existed now, you'd probably have a Bolton or Bury - Whitefield - Victoria - Central - Piccadilly - Airport service and much less pressure on the Castlefield...

Everything above vindicates the HS2 plan for phase 2a to have opened at the same time as phase 1 as it's easier to build (less tunnels) so could catch up with Phase 1, but has a massive impact on capacity as it bypasses Colwich and Stafford, hence also why separated from phase 2b. So sad that...

if only PiccVic had been built the flyover would have been constructed in the 1970s. Another wasted opportunity.

Back in the 1980s, BR planned to upgrade the Normanton route as a higher speed line for Cross Country from York direct to Sheffield, hence the 125mph speeds on both routes. However, the InterCity sector realised that it made no sense to miss out Leeds or Doncaster and so this upgrade was...

If that's the plan, does it then make sense to build the flyover junction at Syston (instead of Wigston) with the line from Peterborough flying over the new east side fast lines to Sheffield? I can then see the following advantages: Easing of the curve off the Peterborough Line over the...

It helps for us who know the railways in the UK to remember that most of the public, especially those who never travel by train, think the rail companies are genuinely private concerns making vast profits at the expense of the fare payer. So Labour know full well all they need to do is let the...

Indeed, but as 54 x 200m trains is what's been ordered, it will, I assume, be expensive to change this. Also, assuming they change this fleet to 11 car units and then the new govt goes ahead with HS2 as planned, either all the stations have to be even longer or there will be a whole fleet of...

The minimum works at Crewe should be to create an up and down platform able to take a 400m train. My logic is this: With HS2 phase 1 ending at Lichfield, capacity from there to Crewe is at a premium, so some trains will need to run as 2 x 200m units coupled, splitting to then head north to...

If Crossrail 2 is built you will be able to walk from Euston to St Pancras via the underground platforms. That's as good as it will get.

For the Olympics, Stratford had platforms built up from Eurostar to Javelin height, so this is a very simple problem to fix.

Remember the 40 new hospitals promised by Boris Johnson which then had to be turned into any new building at any hospital to try to get to 40? I sadly do not believe any of these lists of anything we can think of. Afterall, if they were such good projects, the current government have had 13...

if you get to Llandudno then surely going on to Holyhead makes sense or else you end up with a diesel shuttle along the Snowdonia Coast which will not look good. I'm assuming there isn't a magic bimode local train by then (and assuming the scheme actually happens, given this lot failed to do...

The inspectors have a little gadget thingy which reads the card. I see ticket inspections quite regualrly across Great Northern and Thameslink. As for 1st class it should be abolished on Thameslink and GN as the abuse of it is very high.

Ebbsfleet as there is space and you might even use the loops off HS1 just down the line. Rebrand the station as Ebbsfleet (Kent Parkway) International.

One thing to bare in mind with the French LGV lines is the projects really started with the diversion into the RER lines of much of the suburban traffic at the Gare de Lyon and other Paris stations to free up space in the surface termini. It also helped in France that french trains were so much...

Another issue for speeding this up is that the large ferries now used on the Holyhead to Dublin route dock a long way out from the station. Google maps suggests this is 1.3 miles. When I did it you got off the train, went through checkin and then went on a bus to the ship. So you'll need...

When you move the tracks this Xmas will you put the points and crossings in for the other platforms or is 2023 simply slewing the existing track and Xmas 2024 for all the points and junctions? I'm making an assumption it has to be Xmas when such big things are done.

So we can run HS2 by using Platform 1 and then the rat hole tunnel which then could be linked to the tunnels to Old Oak Common? Given thats 2 trains per hour max, we can then save more money by only laying a single track on HS2 with a passing loop half way to Birmingham. I can see Mr Sunak...

It's a fantasy thread! You should see how bad the traffic is and how slow the buses are. I'm well aware its completely unrealistic, but the thread is inviting crazy ideas, which is good, as sometimes crazy ideas turn out to be usefully radical.

Join up Oakwood on the Picc to Totteridge and Whetstone in the northern with a bridge/tunnel moving walkway connecting with Oakleigh Park on the ECML. Saves going into London and back out. 1695375741 Join up Oakwood on the Picc to Totteridge and Whetstone in the northern with a bridge/tunnel...