Glenn1969
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Presumably if they do wire to Harborough there will be pressure for the wires to be extended to Leicester in CP7?
Yes, this historic map gives a flavour of the layout when this bridge was in use
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I wonder if this would include LEI - NUN.Presumably if they do wire to Harborough there will be pressure for the wires to be extended to Leicester in CP7?
It was 40 in Midland Railway days, but by Peak days it had already become 50 — indeed, it was 50 by the time the first full set of BR Appendixes were issued in 1960. I suspect that change actually came in LMS days. The rise to 60 was in the 1980s and I think came at the same time as Wigston from 70 to 80, Great Bowden from 70 to 85 and so on when the enhanced curving rules were applied to the Midland line.
Hi 70014I'm glad you pointed out that this was facing south. I mean, I guessed it was, but it's so, so different from the old layout that I wasn't sure.
So the original station building is there in your piccie, half hidden behind trees, right?
Hi 70014
Yes ....that is the old station building, still the ticket office and with a good cafe. It is a listed building.
I think that would today be said to be a "doubling" of the Inter city services..."good cafe" - still? It never had one such with 1 TPH semi-fast to London, I'm pretty sure. (In truth, I don't think I've ever alighted at M Harboro, even though I went through it often enough in days of yore.)
Well, it's lost an awful lot of trackwork, a goods yard, engine shed and services to Northampton, Rugby and Peterborough - but gained one fast per hour to London and a cafe! I suppose it's the story of British railways in a nutshell since 1960
Despite the rain, they are pouring concrete for the foundations of the South part of the Southbound platform.
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Yes, the planning drawings show that the footbridge is almost in the middle of the up platform.Really gives an appreciation of the length still to go on the southbound platform. Im presuming the current platform is only around half its full length?
Passenger services to Birmingham wouldn't be able to change over to electric as there is no electrification past Nuneaton, and the services interwork with the Stansted services. All freight from the north and east of Leicester would also need to remain on diesel, and any south-approaching freight would need yards fitting. All in all, not particularly worth it without lots of other work.I wonder if this would include LEI - NUN.
While a bit out of the way, it would allow a connection to be made with the West Coast.
But then I'm sure I read that a lot of freight companies use diesels anyway, even if the whole route is under wires.
Good question, but I expect they won’t have thought of that. A bit of a framework with a brick effect cladding might do it though?Yes swt that subway building roof is being changed - I wonder if they will be able to "disguise" the fact that it is now slightly "on the skew" to the new platform?
Are there any progress reports please? I would have thought that now the weather has improved much of the concrete pouring for the platform will be finished?
Are there any progress reports please? I would have thought that now the weather has improved much of the concrete pouring for the platform will be finished?
Thanks for the latest sitrep. Looking good now.Sorry for the delay but now back from holiday!
Popped along and the platform in filling has continued and most of the length has the drainage system in place so just awaiting the platform edging slabs to be laid, then the top tarmac surface layers. There are now foundations and vertical edgings, right up to the subway steps.
Couldn't they have reduced the costs by making the platforms narrower? I don't think I have seen such narrow platforms at a station with high speed trains passing.This is the view to the North showing the work done on extending the car park. There is now a zig-zag ramp being finished, to access the far end of the Southbound platform.
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