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The Viaduct Line remained in daily use until closure as part of the Leeds First project. The ECS movement for the 07:20 ‘Yorkshire Pullman‘ service stood there every morning to allow for on board laying up. It also got used during station reconstruction works for shunting into the extended...

RCH jumper cable cover

To add a bit more to this… the DVT can’t be removed from a MK4 set in passenger service for several reasons not least as it has fundamental door control and interlock equipment. There have been occasions in past (and I’m going back to GNER days where odd formations really occurred last) where...

I still miss the Black Cherry Milkshake you could get from Casey Jones...

MK4 vehicles use UIC connections for TDM and FDM so the RCH cable aren’t required for normal use. RCH cables can be used for TDM (as it is on 86/87/90s and MK3 DVTs) but not on MK4s. Removing RCH cables reduces interference potential on the TDM system (water ingress etc) it also has the benefit...

It’s a MK3 first open which is essentially gutted. It recently seems to have used for sliding door conversion trial recently at one end.

Well I’m going to eat my hat now. There has been activity at connington! There are a number of road rail vehicles parked where the cross members have been placed for some months. Further to this some new arms have appeared on at least one portal toward the north end of the site. They are...

The booms in question have been sat there since December. There has been no change to the OHLE structures at Connington as far as I’m aware since the currently affixed ones were put up at that time.

Decision is out, Seems First group and VTECs service aspirations have been approved and GNER (alliance rejected) http://orr.gov.uk/what-and-how-we-regulate/track-access/current-work/east-coast-main-line

Thanks, missed that he'd been grated the right to appeal. What an exciting saga this is. Dread to think how much money this is all going to waste.....

I'm getting confused - I thought his latest court challenge was against the refusal to right of appeal? Has he got leave to appeal now or is that what this next case is about?

Doncasters 'The Star' has a short article about it with an artists impression. http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/business/business-news/on-track-for-21m-doncaster-rail-upgrade-1-7215858

If you look carefully there weren't any headspans there before, it is all cantilever supports. They put in the gantries when remodelling the station - strangely they support the up lines but the down lines are still on the cantilevers. They have replaced a single headspan recently at Potters...

Ethernet/data cable

It might be an Ethernet jumper cable you've seen fitted in the last couple of years.

The idea was to mitigate against low level damage (essentially Carbon/pan head damage). The trailing pan was to be used in normal running mode in which ever direction it was running in, so that in the event of damage to the raised pantograph the other pantograph was unlikely to be damaged...

Cardells User Crossing has been closed just south of Offord. It's just not very clear in the newspaper report which crossing they are referring to. Offord CCTV crossing is still open.