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🚧 Latest Video 🚧 HS2; significant progress over summer, despite the challenges. Focusing on a 3.5km long section in Northamptonshire.
youtu.be/fWOgwJ88AVQ
#HS2 #Northamptonshire
Chris Howe (Rail Focus) 🏳️🌈 retweeted
New Video 🎥 - How HS2 is shaping investment in Birmingham.
In this video, we speak to James Blakey, Planning and Engagement Director at Moda Living, a build-to-rent investor and operator that builds, manages and holds residential neighbourhoods for the long term. By the time its current plans are complete, Moda will have invested more than £1 billion in Birmingham, delivering just over 5,000 new homes across four neighbourhoods.
Watch now 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=-_-0uacV…
🚧 A recent video provides details of the work taking place in #ChurchFenton to replace a key bridge
▶️ youtu.be/zeMi5J-DtoQ ◀️ #NorthYorkshire
⚠️ From Saturday 24 October to Sunday 1 November 2026, we are carrying out major upgrades to the railway at Church Fenton station. There will be changes to train services that run from York towards Leeds, Selby, Sheffield and Wakefield Kirkgate while these works take place, helping us deliver a faster, more reliable and more sustainable railway for the North.
🚧 Additionally, on the weekends of Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 October and Saturday 31 October & Sunday 1 November, major upgrade works will be taking place at York station, with all services that run through the station affected.
📱 Customers are advised to plan ahead, and check before they travel at: nationalrail.co.uk
@northernassist @TPEassist @LNER @NetworkRail #TRU
Chris Howe (Rail Focus) 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Anyone knows what’s happening on WCML between OXN & Penrith? Got family on a stationary train near Shap summit.
@AvantiWestCoast
I do have some fairly decent images of the Beluga XL, from its first trip to Broughton, but I can't find the originals 😢
Chris Howe (Rail Focus) 🏳️🌈 retweeted
🛠️ We’re set to carry out £9m of upgrades and repairs on the Kyle of Lochalsh line and at Inverness station, with the railway closing between Dingwall and Kyle of Lochalsh for three weeks between 28 Nov and 18 December.
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@transcotland | @ScotRail
ALT Aerial view of a coastal railway terminus in Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland. The image shows train tracks leading to the station at the end of a pier, surrounded by water. Buildings, roads, and small houses are visible in the surrounding area.
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Transport for Wales' Class 197e plan for Cambrian lines after units enter service
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Talks of a new Menai bridge, a crossing which carries only 13,000 vehicles a day, talking about a new South Wales M4 relief road, yet they're dithering over a like for like replacement of a bridge which carries 70,000 vehicles per day and is in a very bad state of repair! Why?
Work on the replacement A494 River Dee Bridge is now not expected to start until the end of 2027, after the timetable was changed to give the new Welsh Government time to consider the scheme f.mtr.cool/fhm8bjp3x0
"drilling for North Sea oil and gas will secure UK jobs"
#Jackdaw will secure around 27 full time jobs. Meanwhile the offshore wind industry supports over 40,000 jobs and Hinkley C is supporting 26,000 jobs. None of the pro North Sea arguments stack up.
A pivot away from #Jackdaw will reduce energy bills (which was a lie), to it's more environmentally friendly to pump it domestically wasn't on this year's bing card 😅
Chris Howe (Rail Focus) 🏳️🌈 retweeted
LNER Managing Director David Horne to take up new integrated role
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I wonder, when the energy price cap goes up, will the penny drop for #drillbaydrill morons, or will they
a) blame something / someone else
b) just stay silent and pretend they never claimed drilling for North sea oil/gas would reduce bills? #Jackdaw
In terms of art deco buildings in #Chester can anyone think of any good examples? Obviously there's Story House and Nero on Love St, also Tanner's on Christleton Rd. But any others?
Have the plans for a through station been cancelled before they ever got off the ground? The previous St James plan has been canned and they don't even know if it'll be a through station! An absolutely pointless announcement. 🤦
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