Have you been on strike recently?
I'm not an engineer either but there are existing lines into New Street from Camp Hill and Solihull which run adjacent to the new Curzon Street Station. That can't be any harder than the construction of the West Chord let alone the East Chord.
Despite the New Government's desire to speed up national infrastructure development this is a long way in the future. I'm more interested in how I'll get to our new stadium.
alfalphaI'm not an engineer either but there are existing lines into New Street from Camp Hill and Solihull which run adjacent to the new Curzon Street Station. That can't be any harder than the construction of the West Chord let alone the East Chord.
Despite the New Government's desire to speed up national infrastructure development this is a long way in the future. I'm more interested in how I'll get to our new stadium.
The idea is to remove some local and inter-suburban services out of New street in order to release capacity there - New St is almost full, whereas there is plenty of spare capacity at Snow Hill, and Moor St in particular. The long term plan is to have Cross Country services use Moor St (Leicester/Notts etc which are heavily used). A grade separated junction as per the plan I linked is much easier to design than a complex junction, and would effectively be a 'new' railway into the two currently unused platforms at Moor St.
Bordeseley is barely used, and an easy sacrifice given the long term 'wins' from the extra routes and capacity.
When you close a station like Bordesley how in practical logistical terms does that open up capacity at a station like New St
The track is still there with trains going past that dont stop now and wouldn't stop if it was closed
Or are you closing the entire line/track?
Because the junction (chord) that is going where Bordesley station currently stands allows more trains to access Moor St and therefore avoid New St.
The roads there become a race track regularly. We were waiting for a bus there after a game last year and were “treated” to high performance car racing, red light jumping and all round blacked out window high jinks rifght opposite the entrance to the station!
RasputinCompletely forgot the 5 and 6 lines already existed. Is there room to put a proper platform at 6?It's a bigger and more complicated junction than most would imagine it to be as they're baking in long term capacity rather than doing it on the cheap.
Yep, there's a lot of unused capacity at Moor St (relatively speaking of course).