The BILLION POUND flaw on the Elizabeth Line | #Railnatter 303

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  @willhovell9019 · 5 months ago · pinned

  What a load of whinning bollocks. Don't give up the day job. Let TfL get on with Crossrail 2. The use of Oliver Postgate's music is another insult.  "Very unique " indeed. Incoherent twaddle.

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• KA

  @kaymish6178 · 5 months ago

  Business case analysis will be the death of us all.

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• CO

  @constructinglondon · 5 months ago

  The GW fast platforms at Ealing Broadway, are only really used by Elizabeth Line trains when there engineering works on the slow/relief platforms. Happened a lot when they were building it.

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• KA

  @kapuchinoification · 2 days ago

  It's like the gauge wars all over again!!

• ST

  @stuartriches2551 · 5 months ago

  Love your badge

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• AL

  @AlyxEvans · 5 months ago

  GB has the one of the highest platform standard heights in the world, how the hell can't manufacturers other than Stadler make trains to conform to that?

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• UN

  @unhappyschurrle2501 · 5 months ago

  One of the ways to make GWML trains not call on the Liz line platforms is to extend the Liz’s CBTC(?) signalling to OOC - most if not all the route into Paddington is 6 tracked (and if it isn’t there’s room to), hand two over segregated solely for the Liz (which will be running every current Pad terminator to OOC), which allows a 4 track throat for the GWML from Paddington all the way to OOC, which considering it’d then immediately narrow to 2 for the rest of the way to Reading and onwards seems more than generous.<br><br>Also by that point there’s very little freight (I’ve never seen anything go in or out of the concrete depot by Royal Oak portal but happy to be corrected, maybe a flat crossing over the Liz tracks for the rare workings?)

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• J-

  @J-Railway-Volunteer · 5 months ago

  Maybe an XR core underground extension to Heathrow Airport Jn would be good then you can move the XR stoppers onto those lines. The GWML locals run out to Bedwyn and Oxford, although most start and end at the limit of electrifactions of Newbury and Didcot. GWR operates overnight stoppers between Reading and Paddington calling almost all stops, between around <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLj7aylrPs8">00:00</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLj7aylrPs8&amp;t=360">06:00</a>. Only GA 720s call at the intermidate stops berween Shenfield and Stratford even then it is just the Romford.

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• IN

  @ingleacre6480 · 5 months ago

  Thought it was fitting in your episode on Leeds that you pointed to all the new blocks of flats going up without any mass transit provision. Read an article in the Economist last year critiquing the Treasury&apos;s decades of underinvestment in Leeds, and the reporter made the point that on the surface the city seems to be doing OK - any Treasury mandarin getting the train up there on a fact-finding mission will walk out of the station and go &quot;oh there&apos;s Pret, there&apos;s loads of flats going up, clearly this place doesn&apos;t need our help&quot;. Just a total lack of understanding of the deeper factors at play, and the desperate need to invest <b>ahead</b> of development.

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• BO

  @bocbinsgames6745 · 5 months ago

  I did always think the step up at ealing broadway was a bit high

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• NA

  @nagitarze62 · 2 weeks ago

  Applaud your advocacy for improving access by people with restricted mobility. &nbsp;And I love your badge ❤ 🇵🇸

• WA

  @waveydavey-s1e · 5 months ago

  So they built non-standard stations on the line because some berk decided that having only one train builder willing to build low-floor trains would make Adam Smith sad? This is why we can&apos;t have nice things. A trivial local example of a similar problem is the platform-train interface at Partick station; it&apos;s on a curve and boarding westbound trains can be a bit of a stretch even for people with functioning legs due to the cant. Is there much through-traffic on that line requiring the cant or could it be done away with? All the SPT services stop there but I don&apos;t know about freight.

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