Midland Mainline Electrification Planning Started Again.

[Baron99]

Have a look down Abbeydale Road & other railway lines into Midland Station.  

 

People have been happily living in & buying homes next to railway lines for a good hundred years. 

[Jeffrey Shaw]

Matthew Parris said, in The Times (a year or two ago), that the same grumbles about property's possible devaluation were made by nearby owners when the canal system was being planned some three centuries ago. Nothing changes!

[Sheff.Expat]

Complaining about electification work when you live next to a railway is ridiculous. First of all, why live next to a railway line anyway? Lower house prices, I guess. Anyway, I'd be happy to endure disruption for a while (months?) if it meant drastically reduce air pollution in the long run. Let's not forget that the area around Sheffield Station has atrocious air quality...hence why we REALLY need electrification overall. 

[DavidFrance]

I will make my last comment on this just for Annie Bynol. I respect your clear commitment to the policy. But for the next few weeks I will be living in Hampshire in a house very close to the Southampton/Waterloo line. I will hear trains every few minutes. But only just,  because the trains are quiet and quick. I may hear some cross country diesel hauled services they are slower and louder as they head south from Basingstoke Junction. (Travelling far out of their way via Reading thanks to Beeching) I will hear the many diesel hauled container trains from Soton Docks, knowing they are constrained by the narrow and inadequate Micheldever Tunnels. And on at least one occasion I will travel into London , 40 miles in 40 minutes in quiet, clean comfort. Just as I did when I commuted every day to produce a transport programme on  Radio Four. 

If Lincoln, Gainsborough, Worksop, Brigg, Scunthorpe, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield, Stockport, Manchester, Leeds, Chesterfield, Nottingham etc etc etc had a similar network the North would not need that rebalancing.   Like I said, your comment looks very much like a Conservative Party ploy. 

[Man in Crete]

On 31/05/2022 at 20:14, DavidFrance said:

I still say and keep on saying that Third Rail electrification is cheaper to install, less unsightly (in fact not at all unsightly), that 100 mph is plenty fast enough and that for over a century millions of people have been commuting in and out of The Capital on Southern region third rail electrified trains. With third rail the entire rail network from east coast to west coast could be electrified for about the same cost as the Midland Mainline route....if it ever happens. And in Sheffield tramtrains would be perfect for Stockbridge, Chesterfield, Killamarsh etc etc. All we need is a 10 year socialist, realist government. 

But we had 13 years of sir tony Blair etal and they were no better than the current lot

as for your monologues on 3rd rail words fail me! In todays world 3rd rail will never make a comeback too many disadvantages to list here!

[Annie Bynnol]

1 hour ago, LovePotion said:

Just think about how delayed Crossrail was! And HS2! I doubt it would just be months of disruption.

The electric trains will be running next year- not a guess or a wish -a fact.

The electrification is already nearly half done.

The wires have already gone past Kettering and will have reached Market Harborough within the next few months.

As the trains go further North they can switch to diesel and so gradually the wires can be extended first to Leicester then Nottingham/Derby and eventually Sheffield.

 

Unlike other major schemes the work does not progress in several places at once but progresses northward, which means that each completed section can come into use. Cleverer is avoiding any announcements of cost or dates so nothing will be delayed. It will be slow but it does mean that the gangs, their equipment and expertise can be kept together.

[RollingJ]

Will be interesting the first time I catch one of the new trains - if I'm still doing my trips to the South East coast.

[RollingJ]

1 minute ago, LovePotion said:

I believe they are similar to the trains currently operated by LNER from Doncaster.

Quite possibly, but for some strange reason I have never had cause to catch LNER trains since the current ones were introduced - might see if I can fit in a suitable trip.

[Annie Bynnol]

Another 13 miles of elecrification line construction will start this summer between Market Harborough and Wigston(2 miles south of Leicester). This enables the 'gangs' to continue interrupted with their progress north.