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  1. LNW-GW Joint

    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    It's a while back now, but I think (old) Alstom withdrew its bid for Thameslink stock (won by the Siemens 700) because Network Rail would not accept the articulated design.
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    The photos are deliberately vague, but Adessia looks to be an articulated design. The UK has generally not welcomed articulated stock (although Greater Anglia and Merseyrail have adopted articulated fleets from Stadler).
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    East Coast Timetable Dec 24

    ... That list doesn't include the ECML power supply upgrade either.
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    Collision of cargo ship with, and collapse of, Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (26/03)

    It's chilling to see in those videos the trucks and cars crossing the bridge in the last few minutes/seconds before the ship collided with it. They would be completely unaware what was happening behind them, and how close they came to being casualties in the water. Digging around Wiki about...
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    Alstom's problem at the point they took over Bombardier was that they had not been paid for a substantial part of the Aventra production, because of all the TOC acceptance issues, and cash flow was suffering as a result. Part of the financial recovery plan was to resolve the acceptance problems...
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    Collision of cargo ship with, and collapse of, Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (26/03)

    Reports say that Baltimore is a major coal-exporting port, specifically to India for power generation. There are doubts that the traffic can be rerouted elsewhere easily because other ports are at capacity. The other major trade from Baltimore is cars and car parts. So a lot depends on how...
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    So Railtrack still lives 22 years on from its demise. ;) Pic 13 in the link.
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    Simplon Route Closure Summer 2024

    The SBB journey planner offers some routeings via Centovali, but with extended journey times. As a result I can't reach my Swiss destination (Interlaken) from my flight without resorting to the bus (which is quicker than the train anyway from Malpensa). If I had more time it would be a...
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    Simplon Route Closure Summer 2024

    After booking flights to match trains on the Simplon-Lötschberg route in June, I've just discovered the Simplon route is closed in Italy (Arona-Stresa, but effectively Domodossola-Milano) from June 9 to September 8. EC services from the north are truncated at Domodossola, and there are...
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    Landslip at Wellington (Shropshire), Birmingham - Shrewsbury services suspended

    National Rail says Shrewsbury-Birmingham tickets will be accepted via Crewe during the blockade, but there's no mention of London options. https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disruptions/wellington-20240309/ There's this in the TfW section, but it's not clear what area is covered:
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    DfT press release on Northern Powerhouse Rail

    Yes, but the Mayors' vision is Liverpool-Warrington-Airport-Piccadilly-Miles Platting/Marsden with a through NPR station underground in Manchester.
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    The 54 HS2 train order was allegedly just for Phase 1, so there probably won't be a cut-back. While there is chat about reconfiguring some of the sets to be more suited to the current Pendolino operation, they are still pressing on with the 200/400m design. On a like-for-like capacity basis, the...
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    DfT press release on Northern Powerhouse Rail

    I like the way they can talk about a 41-minute reduction in Leeds-Liverpool journey time, without giving any hint of how or where the NPR route (outside the ex-HS2 trace) will be built. The 35-minute Liverpool-Manchester target timing is actually more than the 32-minute timing TPE achieved via...
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    Progress on Avanti West Coast's 805/807s Hitachi AT300 sets

    Well I don't mean to be hyper-critical, and I don't know the facts in this case, but NR has a track record of incomplete, delayed or de-scoped projects when they have spent the budget (with overspend taking money from other projects). DfT is not always to blame for the money running out...
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    Progress on Avanti West Coast's 805/807s Hitachi AT300 sets

    Isn't it ORR that determines the content of NR's CP programmes (along with the DfT's SoFA)? You blame "the government" but did NR overspend on the programme like they did on GW electrification and run out of money for the project? Power upgrades take a long time if new grid connections are...
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    Arguably, winning the Aventra orders has turned out poorly for Derby. They were nursed along initially by DfT with Electrostar (387) and then multiple Aventra orders after Hitachi got the IEPs and Siemens the 700s. That kept them very busy for 5 years or so, but now we have the inevitable...
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    54x200m HS2 trains is 10800m in total train length. The Pendolino fleet, if you add up the 35 11-car and 22 9-car, totals 14035m. The 80x fleet (13x5 and 10x7) is something like 3510m. So the overall Avanti fleet size is 17545m. The HS2 fleet could therefore replace about 2/3 of the current...
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    HS2 Euston - Development, design and construction news (not speculation, please)

    Segment supply/spoil removal for the Euston tunnels will be via the recently-completed Logistics tunnel at the east end of the OOC station area. I guess the question is whether the OOC station build can complete while that tunnel, and its necessary support equipment (conveyors etc) is still in...
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    Those tenders, and any new ones in the future except possibly the extra 345s, would have been competitive, and it is by no means certain Derby would have won.
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    Will we ever see a replacement for Concorde ?

    None of the touted high-speed technologies seem to work in hard business terms. Supersonic, maglev, hyperloop, that rocket thing that was to do UK-Australia in 2 hours by reaching space altitudes (Hotol, Sabre etc), have all failed to get beyond the pilot stage. None of them seem to scale up to...

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