Recliner writes:

Basil Jet wrote:
On 2016\05\27 15:58, Recliner wrote:
As I'm sure most people know, the GOBLIN line is soon to be electrified,
and there will be partial and complete closures starting from tomorrow.

No, another week yet.

No, it's closed for the whole three-day Bank holiday weekend starting
tomorrow, as part of the project.

It was open yesterday (Sat 28th), as I took advantage of travelling on
it for the first time during my day out in London.

Graham Murray wrote:
Recliner writes:

Basil Jet wrote:
On 2016\05\27 15:58, Recliner wrote:
As I'm sure most people know, the GOBLIN line is soon to be electrified,
and there will be partial and complete closures starting from tomorrow.

No, another week yet.

No, it's closed for the whole three-day Bank holiday weekend starting
tomorrow, as part of the project.

It was open yesterday (Sat 28th), as I took advantage of travelling on
it for the first time during my day out in London.


Ah, that's interesting. I'm sure I'd read somewhere that it was closed the
whole weekend (I'd wanted to travel on Monday).

Did you share my impression that the 172s look and sound in very good
condition? They seemed almost showroom fresh.

Recliner writes:

Did you share my impression that the 172s look and sound in very good
condition? They seemed almost showroom fresh.

Yes, they did seem almost showroom fresh.

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
19:31:17 on Sat, 28 May 2016, remarked:

AGA's DMU shortage also shows up in the inability to run long enough
trains on some services, e.g. Cambridge-Ipswich, and increase the
Peterborough-Ipswich service to hourly.

Doesn't the latter require doubling Ely-Soham?

Maybe but not seen it stated though.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In message , at 09:32:12
on Sun, 29 May 2016, remarked:

AGA's DMU shortage also shows up in the inability to run long enough
trains on some services, e.g. Cambridge-Ipswich, and increase the
Peterborough-Ipswich service to hourly.

Doesn't the latter require doubling Ely-Soham?

Maybe but not seen it stated though.


The best I can find at the moment is this rail-blogger:

"Making Ipswich-Ely an hourly service was also looked at a few
years back but couldn't make a business case even assuming the
Soham redoubling was already done (which was necessary to create
the extra paths)."

Other proposals in fantasy-1:1-model-railway-land is to reinstate the
curve at Newmarket and have a Cambridge-Newmarket-Soham-Ely service.
Especially as Soham-Ely-CHANGE-Ely-Cambridge doesn't sound very
appealing, especially on the current timetable (which has excessive
layovers at Ely).
--
Roland Perry

On 2016-05-27 23:24:53 +0000, Recliner said:

That's the situation when the line reopens in February. The work won't be
finished and the lines energised for at least another four months, during
which time

....they will get nicked and sold for scrap.

Madness.

Neil
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Neil Williams
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I've said before that on this route the three stations
at which large numbers board and alight are Barking,
Blackhorse Road and Gospel Oak. Now that the truncated
service is operating between South Tottenham and Gospel
Oak, two of those stations are not generating any custom.

I travelled from Gospel Oak to South Tottenham today in
the early afternoon. The train was almost empty. At South
Tottenham four passengers alighted.

From 22.00 hours tonight until early on Monday morning,
Holloway Road will be closed to facilitate replacing the road
bridge at Upper Holloway Station.

In the Leyton/Leytonstone area there is little evidence of
any progress being made with this electrification project.
I hope it's still on schedule and will be completed by the
end of February but I'm beginning to have doubts. No masts
and no overhead cables are to be seen but plenty of sturdy
vegetation is sprouting from railway brickwork. Network Rail
really should do something about this. Allowing brickwork to
be damaged in this way constitutes negligence.

Ah! A sign of progress. The first mast - goalpost and
cross bar format - has been installed at Leyton Midland
Road Station. Just one, all by itself.

And the line is scheduled to re-open in eight weeks time.