BuslistSince then National has totally exited the rail scene.
National Express operates commuter (regional) lines in Germany.Regards, Volker
Buslist It now seems that Network Rail is admitting that progress might be better working with other entities. http://m.railjournal.com/index.php/track/network-rail-opens-door-to-private-sector-participation.html
It now seems that Network Rail is admitting that progress might be better working with other entities.
http://m.railjournal.com/index.php/track/network-rail-opens-door-to-private-sector-participation.html
Very interesting! Is it possible the fault isn't whether public or private ownership, since it seems like neither has worked well in past or is working now, but that it is something inherent about the UK? Private operation franchising is not working so well for passenger trains, either.
Maybe time to return to British Rail?
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
The East Coast Main Line franchise in the U.K. is in trouble again. It is beginning to look like it will fail for the third time. Last time National Express walked away from it turning it back to the government. Since then National has totally exited the rail scene.
In this case the franchise holder (Virgin Trains East Coast, Virgin 10%, Stagecoach 90%) over estimated their revenue. The losses are severely effecting publicly held Stagecoach's financial performance. There is now a great deal of hand wringing trying to decide what's next. Options range from a complete renegotiation of the franchise to letting VTEC walk away from it.
One of the reasons cited for the revenue shortfall is Network Rail's inability to deliver route improvements to get the London Edinburgh journey time down sufficiently (I haven't followed this bit of activity to know anything about the why's and wherefores, only what's reported in the press), among other factors. It will be interesting to watch, this may require a shakeup of the whole U.K. franchise procedure/concept.
BTW with the exit of National Express there are now said to be more operators based outside the U.K. (DB, SNCF, MTR, Trenitalia etc.) than U.K. ones.
schlimm Buslist I guess if you call knowledge bias. Actually what I'm doing is presenting facts not baseless speculation. Something coming from someone that critizes amatures making comments is your area of expertiese. Why are you so biased against facts? Making up excuses like Britexit and presenting them as if they are facts? Just my opinion based on correspondence with several friends in the UK. But I will acquiesce to your knowledge base and look at the website you've mentioned.
Buslist I guess if you call knowledge bias. Actually what I'm doing is presenting facts not baseless speculation. Something coming from someone that critizes amatures making comments is your area of expertiese. Why are you so biased against facts? Making up excuses like Britexit and presenting them as if they are facts?
Just my opinion based on correspondence with several friends in the UK. But I will acquiesce to your knowledge base and look at the website you've mentioned.
You might want to look at this item, written for the non rail professional. Note last year's cost overruns by Network Rail are almost 1/2 as large as the entire Caltrain electrification.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/rail-electrification-swansea-cardiff-been-13357575
Thanks!! Link activated.
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/new-french-high-speed-train-gets-fighter-escort-for-som-1796755373
BuslistI guess if you call knowledge bias. Actually what I'm doing is presenting facts not baseless speculation. Something coming from someone that critizes amatures making comments is your area of expertiese. Why are you so biased against facts? Making up excuses like Britexit and presenting them as if they are facts?
schlimm Buslist schlimm Buslist blue streak 1 UK is putting on hold further expansion of electrification due to cost over runs and lack of supplies. Also note that article states system is at capacity much of day. That may be the reason that supplies are in short supply ? http://www.railwaygazette.com/news.html Those delayed projects are now canceled. http://m.railjournal.com/index.php/europe/britain-cancels-major-electrification-projects.html Let's follow the U.K. model as some have suggested! The UK cuts are part of continued austerity by the failing Theresa May government and a Brexit-damaged economy. Has nothing to do with Network Rail's mismanagement and its inability to accurately estimate the costs, even to the point where that ability has been part of the question sessions in Parlement. Note the mention of cost overruns in the OP. This whole thing was falling apart long before the Brexit vote. Suggest you invest some time reading the official Journal of the UK's Railway Study Association. Espically Roger Ford's "informed sources" colum. Thank you, I will. It also seems obvious that you have a very strong negative bias, based perhaps on your past history with the UK rail scene?
Buslist schlimm Buslist blue streak 1 UK is putting on hold further expansion of electrification due to cost over runs and lack of supplies. Also note that article states system is at capacity much of day. That may be the reason that supplies are in short supply ? http://www.railwaygazette.com/news.html Those delayed projects are now canceled. http://m.railjournal.com/index.php/europe/britain-cancels-major-electrification-projects.html Let's follow the U.K. model as some have suggested! The UK cuts are part of continued austerity by the failing Theresa May government and a Brexit-damaged economy. Has nothing to do with Network Rail's mismanagement and its inability to accurately estimate the costs, even to the point where that ability has been part of the question sessions in Parlement. Note the mention of cost overruns in the OP. This whole thing was falling apart long before the Brexit vote. Suggest you invest some time reading the official Journal of the UK's Railway Study Association. Espically Roger Ford's "informed sources" colum.
schlimm Buslist blue streak 1 UK is putting on hold further expansion of electrification due to cost over runs and lack of supplies. Also note that article states system is at capacity much of day. That may be the reason that supplies are in short supply ? http://www.railwaygazette.com/news.html Those delayed projects are now canceled. http://m.railjournal.com/index.php/europe/britain-cancels-major-electrification-projects.html Let's follow the U.K. model as some have suggested! The UK cuts are part of continued austerity by the failing Theresa May government and a Brexit-damaged economy.
Buslist blue streak 1 UK is putting on hold further expansion of electrification due to cost over runs and lack of supplies. Also note that article states system is at capacity much of day. That may be the reason that supplies are in short supply ? http://www.railwaygazette.com/news.html Those delayed projects are now canceled. http://m.railjournal.com/index.php/europe/britain-cancels-major-electrification-projects.html Let's follow the U.K. model as some have suggested!
blue streak 1 UK is putting on hold further expansion of electrification due to cost over runs and lack of supplies. Also note that article states system is at capacity much of day. That may be the reason that supplies are in short supply ? http://www.railwaygazette.com/news.html
UK is putting on hold further expansion of electrification due to cost over runs and lack of supplies. Also note that article states system is at capacity much of day. That may be the reason that supplies are in short supply ?
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news.html
Those delayed projects are now canceled.
http://m.railjournal.com/index.php/europe/britain-cancels-major-electrification-projects.html
Let's follow the U.K. model as some have suggested!
The UK cuts are part of continued austerity by the failing Theresa May government and a Brexit-damaged economy.
Has nothing to do with Network Rail's mismanagement and its inability to accurately estimate the costs, even to the point where that ability has been part of the question sessions in Parlement. Note the mention of cost overruns in the OP. This whole thing was falling apart long before the Brexit vote.
Suggest you invest some time reading the official Journal of the UK's Railway Study Association. Espically Roger Ford's "informed sources" colum.
Thank you, I will. It also seems obvious that you have a very strong negative bias, based perhaps on your past history with the UK rail scene?
I guess if you call knowledge bias. Actually what I'm doing is presenting facts not baseless speculation. Something coming from someone that critizes amatures making comments is your area of expertiese. Why are you so biased against facts? Making up excuses like Britexit and presenting them as if they are facts?
According to the article, Isreal plans to spend over $34 billion ( @ 1 shekel = .28 US$ )
Isreal reported to plan double track miles by 2040
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/infrastructure/single-view/view/israel-railways-sets-out-ambitions-to-double-the-network-by-2040.html
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Haifa funicular reported to have been closed due to fire. DAVE ? ?
Still checking, meanwhile:
Nothing to see here or here. How about that conventional wisdom?
Liverpool UK had a landslip cutting off station for at least a week. This appears to be similar to the CSX landslip in Baltimore a while back.
http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/main-line/landslip-set-to-close-liverpool-lime-street-for-nine-days.html?channel=524
BNSF service bulletin. Note how snow cleared appears to be a Jordon spreader ?
http://domino.bnsf.com/website/updates.nsf/updates-service-consumer/007B3A47335F44FC862580C0007DE9B2?Open
Uncofirmed reports Amtrak using bus to take passenger the long way around -- Shelby and Whitefish by way of Missoula ?
Not only US with bridge fires. New Zeland has a major steel bridge appears destroyed
http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/australia-nz/new-zealand-suffers-second-south-island-line-closure.html?channel=541
This puts KIWI rail in a precarious position since it also is dealing with the earlier 2016 earthquake damage not yet fixed.
would better maintenance have prevented this damage?
Buslist Some photos appeared on Face Book this weekend of (I wouldn't say substantial yet) rust damage on Eurostar coaches and powercars. I keep forgetting that they are around 20 now. Eurostar has announced that they will scrap some of the TGV based sets as the ICE s are phased into service. Presumesbly they will mix and match cars between train sets to keep the best cars in service.
Some photos appeared on Face Book this weekend of (I wouldn't say substantial yet) rust damage on Eurostar coaches and powercars. I keep forgetting that they are around 20 now. Eurostar has announced that they will scrap some of the TGV based sets as the ICE s are phased into service. Presumesbly they will mix and match cars between train sets to keep the best cars in service.
Is that from salt-sprayed air?
MidlandMike What is a guard? Is that the person who checks the tickets?
What is a guard? Is that the person who checks the tickets?
a conductor on this side of the pond .
Not being reported on this side of the pond but many passenger passenger services in the U.K. are being severely disrupted. The reason is the plan by several of the franchise holders to eliminate guards and go to one person operation. The RMT, the union representing the guards is striking (on and off?) these operators including the Southern, a major component of the south of the river third rail network. Scott land seems to be affected as well. I tried to find a good summary article, may somebody will have better luck.
Meanwhile Trenitalia ( the major Italian operator,) has purchased the C2C operation, the old London, Tillbury and Southend.
New China HSR line opens.
"The final section of the Kunming-Shanghai service opened on December 28, 2016. This new high-speed line finally connects the Yunnan Province of Southwest China to the nation’s high-speed rail network. The distance between Kunming and Shanghai is 1,500 miles. This is comparable to traveling from Chicago to Salt Lake City, which currently takes 34 hours by train on the California Zephyr. This new high-speed line in China cuts travel time from 35 hours to a half days journey (11 hours). "
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