Railway electrification, The reality gets closer! Options

[On the edge]

Railtrack were in Northbrook Street yesterday explaining that the pile driving for the overhead gantries is about to start, and it will make a bit of noise.

The chap I spoke to was surprised that I seemed relieved, until I explained I thought the Newbury spur was just a 'political' bit of the bigger project, to be given up if costs and time got in the way. Anyway, for me, once the hammering starts, that's it, we will really get electric trains, it's the point the project turns from conjecture to reality.

Great! So it's not going to be long before out of gratitude, we can start a collection to buy one of the old Turbo Trains for them to cherish at Didcot; if only so we can remember how dreadful they were!
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[Biker1]

Pretty poor isn't it?
We have successfully overhead electrified 4 major routes radiating out from London since the sixties.
(And that doesn't include HS1.)
You would have thought that we would know how to do it properly by now!

[On the edge]

Pretty poor isn't it?
We have successfully overhead electrified 4 major routes radiating out from London since the sixties.
(And that doesn't include HS1.)
You would have thought that we would know how to do it properly by now!

Well, we've always known the people 'on the tools' so to speak know what they are doing. As usual these days it's the 'expertise' in the boardroom chiselling away at the numbers they've been given term after term so their performance bonus gets through on the nod. Of course, it's all checked and audited by our Government 'experts', doubtless the very ones advising on referendums....