RMweb Premium 1E BoY Posted March 22 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22 (edited) On 15/03/2024 at 19:26, 1E BoY said: Another thing that I noticed on the north side of the line was the vast amount of discarded track panels. Most of them had trees growing out of them. Whoever gets the job of upgrading the Bletchley to Bedford route is going to have to do some track recovery before they do anything else! There are also a considerable number of track panels dumped in vegetation on the south side between Bedford St. Johns and Kempston Hardwick. A lot of lineside clearance is going to be needed before anyone makes any kind of start on the Bletchley to Bedford section. Viewed from the 1546 x Bedford on 21st March. Edited March 22 by 1E BoY Added info 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Pannier Tank Posted April 3 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3 (edited) Slightly off-topic but may play a part in EWR, Bletchley Depot gets a £66M investment https://www.railwaygazette.com/uk/porterbrook-to-finance-class-730-depot-improvements-at-bletchley/66212.article Edited April 3 by Pannier Tank 1 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted April 3 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3 5 hours ago, Pannier Tank said: Slightly off-topic but may play a part in EWR, Bletchley Depot gets a £66M investment https://www.railwaygazette.com/uk/porterbrook-to-finance-class-730-depot-improvements-at-bletchley/66212.article I suppose you can't house the Alstom 730s in Siemens depot at Kings Heath (N'hampton). 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete the Elaner Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 I drove over the line at Mursley last week. I knew the track was in place but I also saw a red signal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted April 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 12 So with the days getting longer I ventured over to The Claydons to view progress. Coming in from the Akeman Street direction you currently can't come through Calvert, so it was a duck under EWR instead of over, then past the new HS2/EWR access bridge, no photos from here as it is fenced off with nowhere to easily pull over. A right at the 4-way lights into Steeple Claydon then right again onto Addison Road. This is the new bridge over EWR, you can see the old road which show that EWR is already climbing to go over HS2 from here... Two shots looking over towards Bicester where EWR crosses HS2, then the road I drove up on (hardly apparent) and then the Charndon road bridge which is the upgraded brick arch... Note there is lots of drainage stuff littering the place, pre-cast culvert ends and pipes... This is the HS2 - EWR access point bridge that will allow the maintenance trains in and out of the depot... More to follow.... 15 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted April 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 12 Looking the other way towards Queen Eleanor Road we can see the Bletchley-bound exit from the depot, all signalled and lit. Going around to that bridge and looking back the other way, which shows the Bicester-bound signalling. Two shots in the same direction looking beyond the new bridge. The lens accentuates the gradient a bit here, making it look a bit like the ski-jump on the East Lancs. Definite up and over HS2 here.... Even more to follow..... 14 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Davexoc Posted April 12 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted April 12 Three more shots to show the current track layout. Crossings off EWR into a run-round loop with loco sized headshunt at each end. Depot access curving off to the right at the far end of the loop... View other way next... 17 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Davexoc Posted April 12 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted April 12 Queen Eleanor Road maintenance access point for EWR. Signel with feathers for access to HS2 and LOS. Footbridge appears to be open nowadays, and some of the road network has been resurfaced as EWR contractors have departed. The road between this bridge and Sandhill through Middle Claydon is however a wheel destroyer, as I believe it was not officially an EWR access route.... Winslow comes next.... 20 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Davexoc Posted April 12 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted April 12 Looking back towards Verney Junction, another section of road that has been mainly resurfaced. I noted that the signals are labelled OBxxxx, I would guess that was short for Oxford Bletchley (or Bedford). How long before it all appears on the likes of 'Opentrains' or 'Traksy' I wonder??? And, anyone know what ROC it will come under the control of? Should have bought shares in whoever supplies the yellow barrier, there are miles of the stuff.... A quick look at the track side of the new Winslow station.... That is it for now.... 17 2 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 12 hours ago, Davexoc said: Three more shots to show the current track layout. Crossings off EWR into a run-round loop with loco sized headshunt at each end. Depot access curving off to the right at the far end of the loop... View other way next... Well that's my road learning sorted out easily enough! 4 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted April 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13 Are there any point machines yet? Or are the turnouts clipped & locked? 18 hours ago, Davexoc said: How long before it all appears on the likes of 'Opentrains' or 'Traksy' I wonder??? Open Railway map has some of the track shown. Railcam has a basic track layout shown but no signalling. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted April 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13 1 hour ago, melmerby said: Are there any point machines yet? Or are the turnouts clipped & locked? Open Railway map has some of the track shown. Railcam has a basic track layout shown but no signalling. I would say fully functioning, heres a zoomed in view ORM is nearly there for the layout, the others just show Swanbourne Siding.... 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted April 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13 4 hours ago, Davexoc said: I would say fully functioning, I was curious to how the exit from the run round and the main line have the turnouts not interlocked to each other. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 (edited) Being controlled from Rugby ROC. desk is being commissioned soon. Edited April 14 by ess1uk Spulling 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium phil-b259 Posted April 14 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 14 (edited) 10 hours ago, melmerby said: I was curious to how the exit from the run round and the main line have the turnouts not interlocked to each other. The line is not open to traffic yet and will be under an engineers possession. In such possessions points may be wound on manual and left in configurations which would not be be possible were they being moved by am interlocking for the purpose of setting routes and changing signals to proceed. Edited April 14 by phil-b259 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 (edited) On 12/04/2024 at 22:14, Davexoc said: ………This is the HS2 - EWR access point bridge that will allow the maintenance trains in and out of the depot... Sorry Dave, it isn’t a bridge to carry rail tracks. It’s the new road bridge to take the diverted Perry Hill road over both the HS2 mainline and the access lines into and out of the depot, to/from the north. I posted this same reply in the HS2 thread. There’s a video on there showing that bridge from above. Here’s a map of the (to be) completed layout, showing that new bridge (Perry Hill Overbridge). You can zoom in for better detail……. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7eb9c9ed915d74e33f2084/C222-ATK-CV-DPL-020-000016_0.pdf . Edited April 14 by Ron Ron Ron 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 freightliner is running 1800ton trains at 15mph to check the formation 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 5 hours ago, ess1uk said: freightliner is running 1800ton trains at 15mph to check the formation I'm working down on the 'branch' tomorrow manning 6Y64 - no idea where it'll be as my diagram for the job is woeful! 5 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 . 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 That track looks like Peco track on foam underlay. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold simon b Posted May 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13 One question that comes to mind... The Bucks railway center have signed a 5 year lease to use the track through Quainton platforms, so presumably the binliner trains wont be accessing Calvert from the south end. In that video I dont see any provision for a connection from that line onto EWR, so are the binliners going to be routed via the HS2 depot spur? I would have assumed there would be at least a trailing connection put into the EWR line now to save disruption later, surely they want to get the waste trains running into the new terminal as soon as they can? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 13 4 minutes ago, simon b said: One question that comes to mind... The Bucks railway center have signed a 5 year lease to use the track through Quainton platforms, so presumably the binliner trains wont be accessing Calvert from the south end. In that video I dont see any provision for a connection from that line onto EWR, so are the binliners going to be routed via the HS2 depot spur? On an earlier post with the track around Calvert the signal on the WB line clearly has a Left feather 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted May 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13 10 minutes ago, simon b said: In that video I dont see any provision for a connection from that line onto EWR 56 seconds in is the spur to the left I think, that’s certainly the old alignment and it looks to have been upgraded 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted May 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13 32 minutes ago, simon b said: One question that comes to mind... The Bucks railway center have signed a 5 year lease to use the track through Quainton platforms, so presumably the binliner trains wont be accessing Calvert from the south end. In that video I dont see any provision for a connection from that line onto EWR, so are the binliners going to be routed via the HS2 depot spur? I would have assumed there would be at least a trailing connection put into the EWR line now to save disruption later, surely they want to get the waste trains running into the new terminal as soon as they can? I may be quite wrong but I didn't think the bin-liners ran any more? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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