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This is true. (Going to go off topic for a bit, sorry!) However, the Acela only reaches 150mph (240kph) for a grand total of 30 miles in Rhode Island. It's otherwise slower with the rest of the more recently electrified "Northern" section from New York-Boston limited by its ridiculously curvaceous coast following route (think Dawlish) and the Southern half limited by electrification equipment dating back to about 1910 that makes the ECML catenary look incredibly reliable and that Amtrak just cannot afford to widespread replace. That being said the bits of the NEC where Acela reaches 240km/h have been upgraded just about as much as they physically can be to be a high speed line without actually being a new built high speed line. There's cab signalling, continuously welded rail, independently registered catenary, a 25kvAC power system and no at grade crossings.

That's not the 'camera work' - just a terrible warp stabiliser added either by youtube or an NLE, but yes I agree - pretty rubbish.

The reason I created an account here (a month or so ago) was actually to thank you for the reports you were putting together - I just never got around to it. I really appreciate (and I'm sure many others do too) the work you've done - I can right now only update the map every now and again and I do enjoy reading your updates. I certainly do not intend to replace the excellent work you do (I live on the wrong side of the country and lack the means to cover most of the GWEP personally). I only posted an asset that I had already created and was about a month old to help someone who wanted an overview of the situation. The reason I created the map is I'm quite a visual person and I appreciate being able to look at images rather than text. I would personally really appreciate if you continued, as I am sure would many others.

I've managed to get the full res version up as a .pdf file, if anyone has any issues downloading/reading it please let me know.

Okay, got it done. Lets see if it works or not - there are a few issues I've noticed already (but they're part of the gif process). This was cobbled together using old data (nearly a month old now) so I would appreciate if people can help me update it. I'll add place names, key tunnels, bridges and locations later. edit:no, didn't work - looking for better export format, appears the problem is that rmweb resizes the image server side. GWML Electrification Status.pdf

Jamie, I'll get working on it now then.

Mike, I've been working on a map showing the status of the electrification on the GWML posting over at Railforums using the same username for some time now, however, I've had to take a break from doing it for the last couple of weeks, but I hope to re-start work around mid-May. Right now it covers Maidenhead-Swindon, minus the B&H further than Reading West and the line to Oxford further north of Appleford. If you, or other members of the forum would like, I could try to rush a 'half finished' version out showing the status at some point today.