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    ECML Power Supply Upgrade

    There’s been regular progress reports on locations between Newcastle and Berwick on the last couple of pages. The fly in the ointment is the Marshall Meadows SFC installation which seems to have gone very quiet. Please note posts #188 and #191 for examples. Works on the actual Scottish section...
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    Landslip at Wellington (Shropshire), Birmingham - Shrewsbury services suspended

    I think that fixing that slip by the 28th will be something of a miracle. At one point he says it’s still moving.
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    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    Class 350/2 cannot operate on third rail. Only 350/1 are fitted.
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    RealTimeTrains website

    Paging @Tom
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    Railcard minimum fares

    A few forum members jump in each time to suggest it’s the fault of the industry for issuing tickets that still use Anytime in their description, although the railcard restriction overrides it. Then they suggest an App is confusing, or take an “I never read the T&Cs anyway” sort of approach…
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    Five full closures of the M25 in 2024

    They’ll have completely ignored all the previous occasions when similar bridges have been demolished onto a temporary crash deck covering the road surface. With numerous firms having successfully done this sort of job already, it was comparatively risk free. The BBC will probably have missed...
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    HS2 Old Oak Common

    IETs were planned to be route cleared from Reading to Waterloo via Ascot in a very early list of routes that surfaced in one of the enhancement delivery plans. Of course many types of stock have fairly serious speed limits through Ascot, eg Mk3 coaches. I expect they gave up when they...
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    GWR Waterloo and Euston

    These intended paths were also mentioned in the Old Oak Common station thread yesterday.
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    Five full closures of the M25 in 2024

    I noticed the BBC started that ‘as Monday rush hour looms’ part of the headline fairly early on Sunday morning. Anyone would have thought they were hoping for failure.
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    Cross Country overcrowding - shortage of rolling stock

    Not in Defember. This is only intended from May/June 2025, when they expect to have more stock available, as recent threads have discussed. Even then it has been said only alternate trains will run north of York. There‘s a track access application about it that’s been quoted a few times. But I...
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    What is the colour code for the yellow front used on the head or end of the train?

    Here’s an extract from a previous post, there’s quite a choice. I believe the source standards document is no longer available without an account. GM/RT2483 C1.2.1 The front-end colour The colour shall be yellow as specified by any of the following paint colours: a) RAL 1003, RAL 1004, RAL...
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    Question about HSTs seen with Southern (D)EMUs in Youtube video

    IIRC your second less common view was taken about three hundred yards up Pack Lane, which goes under the line just east of Battledown Flyover, but for some years a mature hedge has prevented the view of the flyover, possibly why it’s rarely seen nowadays. Agreed the DEMU service has just been...
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    You know you’re getting older when……

    There was 22 years between my late wife and her youngest sister. Although my daughter is very close in age to her youngest aunt, she’s still not quite older than her. I don’t think it’s so unusual.
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    HS2 Old Oak Common

    Usual exaggeration. How long overall in years did the Reading remodelling take, that was much more complex as far as the GWML track changes were concerned, and for how many weekends were passengers from the West Country seriously affected? For how many days was the route via Reading actually...
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    Signal upgrade set to modernise Cornwall’s railway

    It must be an impressive amount of work, they’re fitting “21 new signalling systems”… o_O
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    ECML Power Supply Upgrade

    Phase 1 has definitely been announced as ‘completed in 2020’ by NR. Post #195 linked to this page in January: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-routes/east-coast/power-supply-upgrade/ However, in the text you get this odd paragraph: The page then goes on to describe...
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    Kingston to Dartford, which route?

    IIRC from previous discussions if pink readers aren’t mentioned in the single fare finder for a particular route then they have no effect.
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    Did I do something wrong?

    Thing is, the OP says he’s had railcards attached to his Oyster card for 9 years, presumably successfully on a number of occasions, so he must already realise that his replacement card‘s number and expiry date needs adding by LU staff at a ticket machine? IE if he’s not been doing that already...
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    ECML Power Supply Upgrade

    Theoretically yes, but you still need the facility to isolate sections for maintenance or if there is damage or other faults. This was discussed a couple of times already way back in this thread, for example in post #90 @edwin_m thought it unlikely, because it would have to be more complex to...
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    Penalty Fare For Discounted Ticket

    From what is reported here, ‘accidentally‘ leaving the 16/17 discount set in an App has become a very common Issue. Perhaps revenue staff are so familiar with it by now they no longer consider it accidental…

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