Thanks. Any idea what rolling stock they’ll use for passenger services?
Believe it’s 158s according to previous press events.
Is the word "bubkiss" a term used specifically in the Northumberland part of the North East, as I cannot recall seeing it in print previously?
Haha I spelt Bupkis wrong, American slang apparently...
I am wondering if it is a corruption of Bupkis which appears in the song Drinking in L.A. by Bran Van 3000. It would be highly apt if so.
Taking from the Wiktionary via Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/words/comments/vmjwec/bupkis_meaning_nothing/
Pretty sure that nobody does currently
No date seems to have been confirmed to the public.
Wansbeck Square is going, that's the next stage if the redevelopment for the area, demolition starts very soon iirc, it's somewhere on the Northumberland Line website
Which is why it's being demolished. https://www.northumberlandline.uk/post/update-on-wansbeck-square-works-in-ashington
I think the primary goal of the Northumberland Line isn't really to bring in visitors / tourism, its an economic link for some quite deprived areas to jobs and opportunities, and as you say a stranger alighting at Bedlington Station will not get far if they wander into the Clayton and ask to see the Menu!
I don’t believe easy access to Seaton Delaval Hall would have ever figured in their plans, a couple of posters here have mentioned it before, but it’s not as if the railway was ever going to be moved…
Wasn’t there originally going to be a level route along the old down platform and then a lift up to the open space by the bridge? Is that still Wansbeck Square? Presumably that lift was removed from the station plans some while ago, and the demolition of the area may already have been in the council’s plans at the time the station gained planning approval?
I have a great deal of sympathy with local residents who've endured many months of disruption during construction of the station and will now have to endure another 3 or 4 (?) years of demolition and rebuilding. It will be better at the end of that period and the rejuvenated area should attract more people, and cars.
The lift was planned when Wilkinsons were still there, they were the final nail in the Wansbeck Square building when they closed. The rest has been disused for some time with the office above last used by the council but have been empty for a long time. I think it has been in their plans to do something with it for a while but it was obviously difficult with wilkinson still there but with them now gone it has made it a lot easier to redesign the whole thing so that a lift isn't needed to get to the square.
Hopefully, there will be some comms’ from the council, Northern and Network Rail soon for local and national media. I’m sure a few dignitaries will have placeholders in their respective diaries.
Still on RTT, but I think I am 50/50 about whether it will happen. I hope to be on the first train.
The way the timetable data is loaded, they’d normally put in the working timetable times and then modify them to class 5 or class 3 paths. This is not at all unusual, we’ve seen it when other new services are getting near to starting.
The paths are currently in as Class 2 paths but unadvertised, and further marked with the 'Q' data field for 'Runs as required' (going from RTT), so won't be in journey planners. As you say, converting them to ECS paths or to advertised class 2 paths will be a relatively easy data job.
Yes I was thinking of the last May/June situation, but it‘s going to be a similar process. I think changes made by STP modification can only be done for a set period as well, which has also led to a few false dawns as they change gradually over the 6 or 7 month period.
