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https://www.gbrailfreight.com/gb-railfreight-announces-seven-year-deal-to-support-new-era-for-caledonian-sleeper/ Be a while to sit around waiting for Caledonian Sleeper work!! Edit The above reply is not a repeat of post above it, it was posted before the post from 43096 was inserted.

A slight contradiction in there, saying “ without requiring additional works “, but wanting to relocate & rebuild the station, a rather large undertaking. Apart from the issue of no land available to the South, you would then create a block for direct traffic, by anything stopping at a new...

Accidents of history, I suppose we could blame all manner of things on that terminology. The trains already pass Carstairs, running services as already described & had already been providing Carstairs with a service. In fact, a few years ago, the station was provided with a new car park, to...

The £164 million is being spent on renewing every single piece of track, points, realignment, speed enhancements, new signalling, overhead wiring, including stanchions / gantries. The already existing station has had work done, including new copes ( the concrete edging stones ) throughout &...

Opens Monday with 50 MPH TSR on both lines.

Not in all cases. There are locations where the route is set with points set for the movement, but the signal at danger, preventing movement past signal. If a train were to pass the signal, the Signaller has a SPAD to deal with. If the points were set against the movement, there could well...

This may allow . Not WILL allow. It may also allow him to do various other things, answer phone, call another driver, make tea, speak to Control, maintenance staff etc. I then went on after your post ( the one you already quoted, but missed out the very first part ) to write that I fully...

DriverD All perfectly calm here. If you follow the posts, there was only the one I actually replied to you, the other ones in your quotes relate to different posts & replies, & if you follow the thread, I have already explained I fully understand interlocking & the SG button have no connection...

I am fully aware of interlocking, etc & the no need to await an SG message to allow other routes or conflicting moves etc to be set. You would not speak to a Signaller & tell him you were at a stand, when you weren't, so why press a button which tells him you are at a stand, ( meaning you...

Why do you even need to ask a Signaller the above question. Would you answer an incoming call from the Signaller after passing a single yellow ? But here you ask if he would appreciate a call, whilst you are approaching a red, with the very real possibility of distraction from your primary...

Or quite a bit extra delay, if it were to go slightly pear shaped & ran past Would certainly make for an interesting interview

Why would anyone even consider doing such a thing, pressing the SG, which gives confirmation your train is STANDING at the signal, whilst not actually at a stand !!! What could possibly go wrong?

Carstairs - Edinburgh was very much used soon after electrified, as there were daily 91s to & from Glasgow . The former splitting & joining trains that used Carstairs en route to Edinburgh now ran as separate trains with electric power avoiding the station . Electric stock ( loco hauled & EMU )...

Why all the fixation on the Forth Bridge ? . The thread is titled Haymarket to Dalmeny, & as such does not cover the crossing of the bridge . If the title covered Dalmeny to Inverkeithing, then that would then obviously cover electrification or otherwise of the bridge . Electrifying from...

In the case of Tyne yard, they are most likely there to feed the High Output Track Renewal System . Was probably also going to be the case at Kingmoor, until the reduction of High Output work & the standing down of a few High Output Systems .

The vast majority of the original Freightliner yards .

Looks like Thornton Yard & Leith branch are in there as well.

On most of the chairs, in the four foot where it has been possible to fit it, there is a torx headed screw, assisting the spikes to hold the chair / baseplate to the sleeper .

In the photos which were posted earlier in the thread, I commented that there were multiple tie bars holding rails together on the 3 to 4 sleepers just in front of the switches, which all had clips missing. One photo also showed an Insulated Block Joint with the bolt locking plate for the 3...

The crossover the Tamper was supposed to use was within the Engineering Worksite, so would have been the responsibility of the Engineering Supervisor, either using Signaller to set the crossover for this movement, although as has been mentioned up thread, some Signallers will not do this, so a...