SteveOfTheStow
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It’ll start off as a bay but there’s provision to turn it into a through road if the BCR works - depends how long a 717 sits in it and when 700s/other slows turn up.
It’ll start off as a bay but there’s provision to turn it into a through road if the BCR works - depends how long a 717 sits in it and when 700s/other slows turn up.
The project will deliver a new platform with a passenger lift and stairs to the extended station footbridge. Facilities on the platform will include two waiting rooms, three sets of external seating, a help point, a ticket vending machine and ticket gateline with canopy.
We’re already on site to build the new turnback at Stevenage which will allow full train services to resume.
From a wider infrastructure perspective, the work to enable trains to access the platform includes the construction of almost 2km of new railway line from Broadhall Way Bridge to Stevenage station and a set of track points.
There will also be earthworks to the existing embankment and track drainage on the left-hand side of the track travelling north into Stevenage, as well as alterations to existing signalling infrastructure.
Additionally, new overhead line equipment will be installed and two existing overbridge structures (Broadhall Bridge and Six Hills Bridge) will be modified.
Network Rail and Govia Thameslink Railway are working closely together to complete this work as soon as possible. Completion is currently expected in 2020.
Lifts to the other platforms are outside the gateline and you have to show your ticket to the camera to use them when the gateline is staffed.One would hope that the lift is sited on the unpaid side of the barriers as otherwise it would just get used to bypass the gate line as been proven here before unless the lift can be remotely controlled with proof of ticket needed to use the lift.
Can’t help wondering just how closely gateline staff examine a ticket that is shown to such cameras.Lifts to the other platforms are outside the gateline and you have to show your ticket to the camera to use them when the gateline is staffed.
Lifts to the other platforms are outside the gateline and you have to show your ticket to the camera to use them when the gateline is staffed.
In my experience, mostly you don't need to show any tickets, the lifts are normally active all the time. However, every so often, when the lift arrives there are half a dozen people waiting to check tickets of everyone in the lift (which is quite often lots of people...)
Anyone seen any progress at Stevenage?be nice to hear an update if anyone has one please.
It’s getting there. Still lots of earth works going on.
Thanks all for the update.
What's the guestimated in service date - May 2020 timetable?
According to this web site https://www.networkrail.co.uk/runni...dlands/east-coast-upgrade/stevenage-turnback/ The target seems to be summer 2020
I've got a bit out of step with happenings here. Can someone advise when rail replacement buses Stevenage <-> Watton began, please?got stuck behind one of the rail replacement buses
It really is astounding that this extra platform wasn’t delivered in time for the Thameslink launch.
They started when the summer timetable came in - 20 MayI've got a bit out of step with happenings here. Can someone advise when rail replacement buses Stevenage <-> Watton began, please?
Besides, the rest of Thameslink is working just fine and dandy without it now.
Not too surprising, at least in respect of conflicts at Stevenage, because the via Hertford trains that aren't part of Thameslink are being turned back at Watton to remove any such conflict. Unlike Bedford, depriving Hertford of its link to the north doesn't appear to attracted much comment on here.Besides, the rest of Thameslink is working just fine and dandy without it now.
Not too surprising, at least in respect of conflicts at Stevenage, because the via Hertford trains that aren't part of Thameslink are being turned back at Watton to remove any such conflict. Unlike Bedford, depriving Hertford of its link to the north doesn't appear to attracted much comment on here.
Thank you!They started when the summer timetable came in - 20 May
.Not too surprising, at least in respect of conflicts at Stevenage, because the via Hertford trains that aren't part of Thameslink are being turned back at Watton to remove any such conflict. Unlike Bedford, depriving Hertford of its link to the north doesn't appear to attracted much comment on here.
As to overall Thameslink reliability, I wouldn’t say it’s wonderful. In a typical week of journeys to/from London it remains very rare to get a full week where everything goes to plan. I’d say at least two journeys out of five each way are typically affected by some kind of problem. Fortunately the Cambridge-KX service is currently planned in a way that allows it to run very resiliently as a backstop (albeit a slow one) for most GN journeys - this won’t be the case when or if it runs through the core. By contrast the Peterborough route doesn’t have this to fall back on, which is still a major issue for users north of Hitchin, especially during the middle of the day and in the evening.
A brand new mast has gone up at the southern end of the new alignment - looks like one of the 'hook-and-pin' masts seen on the GWML.