Busy present day single track mainline
I hope you guys can help but I’ve had a request from a friend in the US who wants to build a mainline which was singled in the past but now becoming busy not only with passenger traffic but Intermodal as well as infrastructure trains. He wants to put a passing loop in at the station and though it used to have two platforms, only one is used now.
He also wants to base it in the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire areas and the only line I can think of is the “Robin Hood” Line bu
Coventry - Leamington has about six available paths per hour. In the day this is usually taken up by two Voyagers on the Manchester - Bournemouth service, two DMUs on the Leamington - Nuneaton stoppers and one or two freights.
Most of the duplicate freight paths are either because they are for different operators bidding to run the same working or are trains running to a different place each day, such as the MOD (Q)trains which start from Bicester and run to three different destinations as
