GRALISTAIR
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Will only six platforms be adequate for future service provision at Blackpool North?
More than enough
Will only six platforms be adequate for future service provision at Blackpool North?
More than enough
Is the planned service level 4 departures an hour? (Plus VT I suppose)
As a comparison, also with 6 platforms, Hull has a service level of 6.5 trains per hour and seems to be far from capacity.
Is the planned service level 4 departures an hour? (Plus VT I suppose)
As a comparison, also with 6 platforms, Hull has a service level of 6.5 trains per hour and seems to be far from capacity.
Manchester Airport has 11 departures per hour from 4 platforms (admittedly with some double occupancy).
Just to remind you, some time ago Railrover700 kindly allowed us to link his fab album to the Combined Volume (CV). To access it you can either remember his link as above or click on the very first image in the CV then look down the "Comments" and click on the link shown in Comment 07.
That route will also give you access to a seriously fab range of other albums.
Thank you Railrover700
Platforms 7 and 8 at Blackpool North have been abandoned with track and signals removed.
According to the current Rail magazine (829), p. 15, this happened over the late May bank holiday; thanks to our photographers and chroniclers we've already seen pictures of some of it:
Burnden junction was remodelled with 1100 yds of track renewed. 100 yds of S&C installed, an old signal gantry removed and a new signal installed. Between Lostock and Euxton, Level of Control cases (?) were installed, tests of solid state interlocking extensions were carried out, and Panel and Panel Multiplexer alteration works were completed from Blackrod to Euxton.
Quite a few more TTCs gone up between Salford Central and Salford Crescent. I would say there only about 5 or 6 missing though they could have been on the opposite side. The signal heads at the Crescent are now OHLE friendly plastic ones too and one of the Feathers is now a theatre box at the south end.
Please see the remarkable comments attached to ALX400's photo 7560i Blackrod!!!
Yo!
Sadly, historic value engineered station works (and not a few other streams of work) are universally atrocious at thinking ahead and recording the locations of "stuff", meaning that in many areas the only thing we can know for certain is that we have no idea what's just under the surface. The digging of trail holes at every OLE base location is a manifestation of this doubt.
Manchester Airport has 11 departures per hour from 4 platforms (admittedly with some double occupancy).
I thought it was about 13 departures per hour?