Just seen possibly the first movement through sowerby bridge station since last Friday. What looked like a 2 car heading east at speed.
Working well, thanks.Think it's pretty much there now. There's a *lot* more signals in the Hebden Bridge, Milner Royd and Halifax areas, as you would expect. The Mill Lane area seems fairly similar - might have been a like-for-like changeover
I took a nose around Bradford earlier to see if there was anything interesting going on. First picture is of the new Ripley Junction, south of Mill Lane Junction, as seen looking north from the Ripley Street overbridge. It was installed in summer, but comes into use with the resignalling. It was October 2008 when the layout around Mill Lane junction was last expanded - so exactly ten years ago. Pic beneath that shows the revised layout in Bradford Interchange station throat as seen from Caledonia Street, which also comes into full use tomorrow.
New 'MU' speeds have been introduced alongside the resignalling. In the Bradford / Low Moor area the basic line speed remains 55, but just south of Low Moor station heading 'up' toward Halifax the MU speed is 80, and at the northern portal of Bowling Tunnel it is posted as MU 70. These seem like decent increases. Not much help for TPE traffic on diversion though - I assume 185s are still not able to take advantage?
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On the up: 60 | MU80 from Milner Royd junction to Mytholmroyd, then 60 | MU70 from Mytholmroyd to (and beyond) Hebden Bridge.What's the line speed milner royd to hebden bridge please?
There's a *lot* more signals in the Hebden Bridge, Milner Royd and Halifax areas, as you would expect.
In the two weeks prior to the closure of Hebden Bridge Signalbox the crossover was not used and the stock went up to Hall Royd Jct to reverse. Indeed the last movement at HB Signalbox was the ECS from the Leeds terminator, which went up to Hall Royd Jct and came back a few minutes later.I’m on the 05:47 Hebden to Leeds this morning and just saw the most bonkers stock movement. ECS arrived into Manchester bound platform (1). Reserved out across the crossing to the Leeds line. Reversed back into the Leeds platform (2) to await departure. This train and the later GCR stock departure to Leeds were always the two short services that went from the ‘wrong’ platform. Weird thing is whilst the Manchester bound line was freed up by the move, it was unused.
It is actually signposted at the station that some early morning services depart from the Manchester bound platform!In the two weeks prior to the closure of Hebden Bridge Signalbox the crossover was not used and the stock went up to Hall Royd Jct to reverse. Indeed the last movement at HB Signalbox was the ECS from the Leeds terminator, which went up to Hall Royd Jct and came back a few minutes later.
The movement might be bonkers from an operational point of view, but not from a customer service one. Why make eastbound passengers walk to the westbound platform?
Sounds like someone needs to remove the sign (or is it a sheet of A4?).It is actually signposted at the station that some early morning services depart from the Manchester bound platform!
Sam
It's a permanent sign (i.e. on metal or plastic, not just a piece of paper stuck on the wall).Sounds like someone needs to remove the sign (or is it a sheet of A4?).
Brighouse will be getting a ticket machine. As for the reason it has not got one yet, it is most likely on the list but that the engineers have just not got round to that station yet.View attachment 54538
Just next door, it looks like Mytholmroyd is also getting another Ticket Machine upon the Manchester bound platform!
Does anybody know if Brighouse will be getting a single Ticket Machine and why it doesn't already have one?