DBC
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Mon 16th Jul 2012 1:35pm
I think it has a good chance of going ahead, especially as it's part of a larger project. This from "Modern Railways" website:-
"The creation of a high-capacity "electric spine" running from Yorkshire and the West Midlands to South Coast ports allowing more reliable electric trains to cut journey times and boost capacity for passengers and freight. This comprises: an £800million electrification and upgrade from Sheffield - through Nottingham, Derby and Leicester - to Bedford, completing the full electrification of the Midland Main Line out of London St Pancras; and electrification of the lines from Nuneaton and Bedford to Oxford, Reading, Basingstoke and Southampton."
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dutchman
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Mon 16th Jul 2012 2:07pm
On 16th Jul 2012 12:28pm, DBC said:
I noticed that today's announcement regarding new investment in the railways mentions that the line from Nuneaton through to Oxford will be electrified. I imagine this is the Nuneaton - Coventry -Leamington line. If so, that's great news. I wonder if it includes (re)opening a station in Kenilworth?
They've been planning to electrify the Nuneaton-Leamington route since 1962 so I wouldn't hold your breath! The passenger bridge at Kenilworth was even famously raised to accomodate the new wires but both it and the adjoining station were demolished only a few years later. Remnants of what would have been the electrified route still remain alongside Quinton Road and the Butts Stadium.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Tue 17th Jul 2012 5:49pm
Hi Dutchman, DBC ![]() ![]() |
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flapdoodle
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Wed 18th Jul 2012 10:09am
Won't they also have to double track the line? They want to use the Nuneaton-Leamington line for local traffic as well as inter city traffic, but at the moment a lot of it is single track.
This package could be good for Coventry, as it means the city is an interchange between two major lines. Might help with the plans to redevlop the station area.
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Thu 19th Jul 2012 9:40am
I could be wrong here so shout at me if i am,but im pretty sure the lines navigation and infrastructure were built to originally accommodate double track.
Have a look at this link,there's a bit of history and some great photos of the line. ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Thu 19th Jul 2012 4:35pm
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anne
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Fri 20th Jul 2012 10:08pm
On 6th Jan 2012 5:32pm, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
This is at the end of the Prologis branch, the old Keresley colliery site.
We used to play on the little flat coal carriers, that went along the tracks, on the old colliery site in the early 60's, I don't know the technical terms but you stood up and pushed down on a two handled lever thingy to move along. We played a lot around there, I think they moved the pit head a bit at some point and we were on that site? Great fun, prob dangerous and no doubt a h+s nightmare! ![]() ![]() |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sun 29th Jul 2012 1:50pm
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Mon 30th Jul 2012 2:18pm
Hi again,
Thank you so much. Banbury was one of my past favourite trainspots. The yard was so massive, also it was common to see Southern locos working up from Oxford, as well as Eastern, off the Northampton link. Thank you again. ![]() |
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Mon 30th Jul 2012 2:41pm
I used to go there quite a lot as a teenager in between exams, I'd work at my dad's factory in the morning that backed onto the station area then the afternoon was mine while I waited for my dad to finish, I used to mostly go to the north yard and watch them 'Hump' shunting and the man used to run along levering the brakes on or up coupling with one of those strange barge-poles with a pig's tail curl on the end for uncoupling the wagons in compression, however one day this was the result of some over eager shunt over the hump, this broke the fish plates and shoved the buffers out of line...... just a bit..... this woke me up as I was dozing in an old condemned brake van at the time ![]() ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Tue 31st Jul 2012 2:52pm
All of my interest was kindled from trainspotting. I love the walks around 'Shackerstone Railway Society (The Battlefield Line)' as well as enjoying rides on the railway there. Been on the Ashby Canal too. One of my favorite Friday night spotting locations was where the Ashby line joined the Trent Valley, just north of Nuneaton. A photographer, Ray Reed, has included a picture of me trainspotting there in 1956, which has been included in a photo album "Railway Nostalgia Around Warwickshire", by D. Hibbs. He describes me as a 'lone spotter'. My dad (a motor development engineer) often spent working time at the MIRA plant which was how I came to get out there from time to time. Thank you for your picture. ![]() |
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Tue 31st Jul 2012 3:47pm
The Shackerstone Railway Society is a line I've not yet visited but seeing the photo of the inside of the box showing the block signal repeaters got me rummaging around in the loft to find three repeaters and a block 'totem' and bell which came from the Three Spires box around the mid 80's (on a pile of scrap), the BR(M) tri-colour handlamp was given to me by an old boy in Rugby Station's crew office, the BR sign was a double timetable enamel sign, and hanging above the door is an NE region gauge lamp they used to illuminate the gauges on the steam locos, the only trouble is now is that it all needs a good dusting ![]() ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Tue 31st Jul 2012 6:38pm
I hadnt realised it had burnt down, I know that it's just another automated brick box now but was unaware of its demise, it was around 1986/7 when it got vandalised, Network Rail were working on it when I asked for bits off the pile of rubbish, I happened to be up there taking photos with an old twin lens reflex 'Rolleiflex' camera and took a few photos of the box but do you think I can find them now ![]() ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Mon 6th Aug 2012 9:07am
Talking of places that 'just so happen' to be by a railway line our only family holiday in 1979 was to Butlins at Barry Island, but unbeknown to my dad I knew of Dai Woodhams scrapyard that had (I counted) 97 rusting steam locomotives in it.
The family would go to the beach and come back with a tan and I'd come back to the chalet covered in rust/soot and oil, I wasn't very popular with my dad that week ![]() ![]() ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Mon 6th Aug 2012 9:24am
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