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Centenary of the Grouping
62613 replied to t-b-g's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
You say "potayto, I say portarto" -
Going back to a previous post; if a railway scheme has passed Parliament and been signed of by Her Maj, can the government just sell off the land detailed in the act? Crewe - Manchester, no problem, but Handsacre - Crewe?
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Certainly at Handsacre, that seems to be the case.
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The chap with the knowledge of railways around Wigan is Apollo.
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Now building HS2 as a Crewe - Preston line (and thus bypassing ALL the bottlenecks in one hit) is a different matter.... Agreed! Crossing the Ribble might be fun, but it makes sense to do it properly. Make the junction somewhere around Garstang!
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O.K., I'm getting my crayons out! My feeling is that phase 2A should be built, come what may. It does so much to increase capacity, it isn't true. As remarked somewhere else (Green Signals no. 6 I think, posted on here earlier), the other capacity buster was the leg from Crewe to Golborne. I'd abandon phase 2B as it stands and reinstate that; apart from crossing the Ship Canal and the Mersey, would there be any serious civil engineering problems on this part?
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Was just coming on to mention that. No comment from the presenter, just let the railfreight bosses tell it like it is with the cancellation. They made the point very well about the "Stafford Bypass" being crucial to unlocking capacity. Apart from anything else there has (seemingly) been a lot of investment at Daventry in anticipation of HS2 being built. Wasted money? M.S. & L.?
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Tata Steel to close Port Talbot blast furnaces and replace with electric-arc.
62613 replied to C126's topic in Wheeltappers
Do you think that, as Britain was in on the industrial pollution game from its very beginning, 250 years ago, that we should just forget it? The same could apply to most "Developed" economies -
Tata Steel to close Port Talbot blast furnaces and replace with electric-arc.
62613 replied to C126's topic in Wheeltappers
That goes against 'free trade' rules, though. If our government attempted that, it could in theory, at the minimum, find itself being sued under WTO rules on restriction of trade grounds -
Tata Steel to close Port Talbot blast furnaces and replace with electric-arc.
62613 replied to C126's topic in Wheeltappers
Been happening since the 1980s -
Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day
62613 replied to DaveF's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Good point! -
East West rail, Bletchley to oxford line
62613 replied to porkie's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Look at how long it took to electrify a line between two major cities, when both major cities had electric services from the early 1960s, and which was electrified in the middle in the early 1970s. The line is just over 30 miles long -
Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day
62613 replied to DaveF's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
J790; That train looks incredibly short for a Newcastle - Liverpool at that time. Most of the ones I saw South/West of Huddersfield were at least load 10. -
Level crossing stupidity...
62613 replied to Katier's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Is that you, mate? -
Level crossing stupidity...
62613 replied to Katier's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
A fair few on Metrolink in Manchester -
Tata Steel to close Port Talbot blast furnaces and replace with electric-arc.
62613 replied to C126's topic in Wheeltappers
I always thought that blast furnaces made the raw iron from ore. Producing the steel is a further process, at first using the Bessemer - Mushet process, then open - hearth, and then more controllable processes such as LD or electric arc. There is a lot of carbon in raw iron absorbed from the coke; to make steel, you have to get rid of all but about 0.1 to 0.8% of it. -
The roads between Stalybridge and Stockport via Denton and Reddish aren't exactly favourable for a replacement bus; the location of Denton Station is particularly problematic for this when coming from Stalybridge. Besides, there's a lobby group in Denton which wants Northern to start a Stockport - Victoria via Denton service. Where that would fit in between Ashton Moss North and Victoria, I don't know!
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WCRC - the ongoing battle with ORR.
62613 replied to 6990WitherslackHall's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Advert on my Faceache feed today from LSL, assuring anyone who has booked on any of their tours so far that their booking is safe because all their stock is fitted with CDL. -
Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day
62613 replied to DaveF's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
JVol 4031 recently ( the last two or three months) turned up on a steam memories group on Faceache -
WCRC - the ongoing battle with ORR.
62613 replied to 6990WitherslackHall's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Particularly as the LMS had stock with pnuematically operated sliding doors running in the mid - 1930s, and the LNER intended to by the mid - 1940s; was the LNER Tyneside stock sliding - door? I can't remember without looking. -
They weren't, though; it was a government - forced amalgamation, as an alterative to nationalisation.
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Well, there would be the redesign costs for a start. Phase 2A was the Stafford bypass, as well as the Colwich bypass and the Norton Bridge bypass. Whether it was a total Crewe bypass, I don't know. 36 miles, no major engineering challenges; GET IT BUILT!
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For what it's worth, I agree with you. I also agree that the Piccadilly HS2 station should have been a "through" one, which, IMHO, could only be sub - surface. I suspect that if the next phases were built entirely by private interests, they would want their pound of flesh somewhere along the line. Are there any individual private companies or consortiums with the financial resources to undertake such a project?
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There was a report in one of the newspapers yesterday (might have been the Manchester Evening Sun News) that Mayors Burnham and Street are jointly looking for private funding to do phases 2a and 2b. Wasn't the part of the line from Manchester Airport to Piccadilly meant to double up as part of NPR?