Comments on: The Electric Train from Platform 5 is Running 25 Years Late http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2009/07/23/the-electric-train-from-platform-5-is-running-25-years-late/ Music, Photography, Railways, Games and Opinion Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:33:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2009/07/23/the-electric-train-from-platform-5-is-running-25-years-late/comment-page-1/#comment-4116 Tim Hall Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:17:01 +0000 http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2009/07/23/the-electric-train-from-platform-5-is-running-25-years-late/#comment-4116 There isn't a huge volume of freight on the GWML nowadays - sadly the railways don't carry anything like the amount of freight they did in the 1970s. What freight there is can probably either be accommodated in daytime freight paths, or diverted via alternative routes - you could send the Avonmouth to Didcot coal via Westbury and Reading, for instance. It's a longer way round, but power-station coal isn't a time-sensitive cargo. On the four-track sections east of Didcot I would assume they would only need to close two tracks out of four for most of the work. There isn’t a huge volume of freight on the GWML nowadays – sadly the railways don’t carry anything like the amount of freight they did in the 1970s. What freight there is can probably either be accommodated in daytime freight paths, or diverted via alternative routes – you could send the Avonmouth to Didcot coal via Westbury and Reading, for instance. It’s a longer way round, but power-station coal isn’t a time-sensitive cargo.

On the four-track sections east of Didcot I would assume they would only need to close two tracks out of four for most of the work.

]]> By: Michael http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2009/07/23/the-electric-train-from-platform-5-is-running-25-years-late/comment-page-1/#comment-4115 Michael Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:08:20 +0000 http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2009/07/23/the-electric-train-from-platform-5-is-running-25-years-late/#comment-4115 I also note that the wires will go up at night to avoid interrupting passengers. When do they thing the freight trains move? I also note that the wires will go up at night to avoid interrupting passengers.

When do they thing the freight trains move?

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