GRALISTAIR
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Yep -9064k illustrates your point very nicely indeed.
I took the photos and LDECRexile very kindly uploaded them.
I took the photos and LDECRexile very kindly uploaded them.
No.Please to see the posts from the Woodhead line 1500 DC electrification are still up behind the signal box. Might they be pressed into use for 25,000 AC at some point?!
Here is a sample of what I am talking about. How it is not easy just to use old bases and structures. I hope they illustrate what I am trying to say + Mr Locke I assume?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/24493222287/in/album-72157651259517065/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/24493222027/in/album-72157651259517065/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/32720685370/in/album-72157651259517065/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/24785348548/in/album-72157651259517065/
Will the junction effectively be singled?
The branch traffic hardly qualifies for a double junction.
So did many other junctions a few years ago! Better not repeat the mistakes of the past.
It's a single line in between so they are bound to be single leads. There's no point in having a double junction unless the branch route is double track for a train length plus signalling overlaps, otherwise branch trains can't pass each other on the junction.The new Halton Curve junctions are just going in as single leads at each end, for a 1tph passenger service.
Yes, you can almost see the new alignment in the photographs from the angle of the new points. The new alignment will go through where the old box was. Does anyone know what the new (and old) speeds through the junction and mains will be?Presumably the kink in the old Down Branch line will be smoothed in the process.
Was that Pre Curved rail being installed as panels by the KIROW?
It's easier than concrete but it certainly isn't "not hard". Bear in mind that Carillions liquidation has had a massive effect, the main efforts have (rightly) been put into Phase 4.Went on run to Stalybridge today and noticed that the cable route work for the 25Kv cable has large gaps in the run were no work has been done
Its not a hard job to put the new lightweight plastic trough in and this job should have been finished by now
Do you have access to the Project Plan to confirm this?Its not a hard job to put the new lightweight plastic trough in and this job should have been finished by now
"Phase 5 have been given infrastructure authorisation by the ORR which means it now needs operational authorisation and it will be ready to accept trains. Another big step and a sign Phase 5 is close to completion."
Is that Phase 5; Phase 5 - Part 1; or Phase 5 - Part 1 - Subsection A ?
I'm fairly certain that Victoria to Stalybridge was part of the Northern Hub plan which was agreed prior to the Transpenine electrification.Pretty sure it means the electrified lines east out of MCV to the Miles Platting area. The rest would come under Transpennine route upgrade.
I'm fairly certain that Victoria to Stalybridge was part of the Northern Hub plan which was agreed prior to the Transpenine electrification.