Ideas to replace the Newark Flat Crossing!

[Halifaxlad]

How about...

Rail (Newark bypass) – Google My Maps

Rail (Newark bypass)

www.google.com

It was going to be a screenshot but I'm currently having trouble uploading files.

It would require the rerouting of the A1 for a short distance as shown in blue.

But essentially its a bypass!

 

[Trainfan344]

There's ample room for a flyover, Up over the river, over the ECML and back down the otherside..

 

[snowball]

Thank you. Reopened at my request as Highways England is proposing to dual the A46 Newark bypass and conducted a consultation last year (now closed):

A46 Newark Bypass - National Highways

The A46 Newark Bypass is an important route connecting the M1 and Leicester to the A1 and central Lincolnshire.

highwaysengland.co.uk

(If it shows "+ Public Consultation 2020" at the bottom, click on that and more details will appear.)

I always imagined that any rail flyover would run immediately alongside the SE side of the Nottingham-Lincoln line. There seemed to be just about enough space for both that and the dualling of the A46.

There are two options for dualling the road, shown in the two "maps" and in more detail in the two "drawings". Both include a grade-separated road junction towards the north end of the road that seems (from the "drawings") to use up all the space between the road and the Nottingham-Lincoln line, apparently meaning that any future rail flyover would need to be on the other side of the line.

According to the "environmental constraints map" there is a local wildlife site on that side of the line further south.

Presumably HE will have had to consult NR - I wonder what NR said?

I haven't read the "options summary report" yet.

 

[Bald Rick]

Thank you. Reopened at my request as Highways England is proposing to dual the A46 Newark bypass and conducted a consultation last year (now closed):

A46 Newark Bypass - National Highways

The A46 Newark Bypass is an important route connecting the M1 and Leicester to the A1 and central Lincolnshire.

highwaysengland.co.uk

(If it shows "+ Public Consultation 2020" at the bottom, click on that and more details will appear.)

I always imagined that any rail flyover would run immediately alongside the SE side of the Nottingham-Lincoln line. There seemed to be just about enough space for both that and the dualling of the A46.

There are two options for dualling the road, shown in the two "maps" and in more detail in the two "drawings". Both include a grade-separated road junction towards the north end of the road that seems (from the "drawings") to use up all the space between the road and the Nottingham-Lincoln line, apparently meaning that any future rail flyover would need to be on the other side of the line.

According to the "environmental constraints map" there is a local wildlife site on that side of the line further south.

Presumably HE will have had to consult NR - I wonder what NR said?

I haven't read the "options summary report" yet.

IIRC the flyover when originally studied was always proposed to be ‘north’ of the crossing.

 

[najaB]

IIRC the flyover when originally studied was always proposed to be ‘north’ of the crossing.

I thought the original, original proposal was for a combined road-rail flyover?

 

[Bald Rick]

I thought the original, original proposal was for a combined road-rail flyover?

That depends on how original you mean!

 

[FGWHST43009]

I think Newark Flat crossing should be replaced with a flyover, there are no more excuses not to do it. We pioneered railway building, so surely we can bypass Newark Flat crossing by now? It could help achieve 140mph running on the ECML, which there is also no excuse for not doing.

 

[Bald Rick]

I think Newark Flat crossing should be replaced with a flyover, there are no more excuses not to do it. We pioneered railway building, so surely we can bypass Newark Flat crossing by now? It could help achieve 140mph running on the ECML, which there is also no excuse for not doing.

You might want to read the rest of this thread.

Of course, it could be built. But for what purpose, what cost, and does the benefits it create offset that cost?

 

[najaB]

I think Newark Flat crossing should be replaced with a flyover, there are no more excuses not to do it.

Money.

 

[och aye]

Short video explaining the crossing at it being replaced last year: