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Welcome
A MINI ADVENTURE
Freight on the Cowley branch: loco No 66014 departs the BMW factory
with a load of Minis for export from Purfleet on 20 October 2010.
Ken Brunt
T
o the city of dreaming spires,
home of my formative years.
It is always with a sense of
anticipation that I take the train out of
Paddington: what’s changed on the
well-travelled route? Lots, it turns out.
The signs of the route modernisation
are everywhere, from the new viaduct
at Stockley for Crossrail services to
the electrification masts going up in
Moreton cutting. As for Reading, well,
the scale of the transformation there is
truly impressive.
Word on the track is that while the
engineers are on top of Reading, the
electrification is proving more tricky,
with the High Output train struggling
to get up to speed on the piling job.
Let’s hope that one is sorted soon, it’s
vital that we keep to time and cost
on the Control Period 5 programme
if the railway is to have credibility in
the funding round for what looks like
a cash-strapped CP6.
What’s special about Oxford,
Pevsner’s sublime curve to the High
Street aside? Well, as you can read
in this issue (p60), those inventive
folk at Chiltern are pushing for the
reintroduction of passenger services
on the Cowley branch. They tell
me the southeastern corner of the
university city has changed since
my teenage years: then it was all
Morrises and mess, now, it seems,
it is all shiny and science-y. The
new-generation Minis emerge from
BMW’s hi-tech production halls on
a site much more compact than the
car factory of yore, while industrial
acres that were all Pressed Steel and
mass meeting grounds have been
turned into homes for biotech and
software companies. The names of
the proposed new stations, Oxford
Science Park and Oxford Business
Park, say it all.
The city council loves it, of course,
with grand plans for a railway loop
around the east side of Oxford so
that the Cowley branch would link
up with the Chiltern line at Oxford
Parkway to the north-east of the
city. That seems a bit far-fetched,
but a railway linking the ‘technology
crescent’ – an arc about 60 miles from
London stretching from Harwell and
Didcot through Oxford and Milton
Keynes to Silicon Fen – is well on the
way to becoming reality. As our article
describes, the first section of East West
Rail will be realised next year and
extension to Cambridge is coming to
seem like a real possibility.
Some of the East West trains are set
to start from Reading; with Western
Rail Access to Heathrow pencilled
in for the end of the decade, that
will make international air travel
accessible for the technology crescent
with just one change. Oxford, for
so long the poor relation on the rail
transport map, is set to undergo a
service transformation. Next autumn,
there will be services from Oxford
Parkway to London in less than an
hour, with East West links to follow.
One refreshing detail is that the
Chiltern people speak highly of the
cooperation they have received
in the Cowley proposal from their
counterparts at First Great Western,
even though Cowley trains need
track capacity on the Paddington
route and presumably Marylebone
services are going to lead to some
revenue abstraction for FGW
at Oxford. Perhaps it is because
Stagecoach’s Oxford Tube bus is seen
as the real competitor. But coupled
with the grown-up relationship that
Chiltern seems to have established
with Network Rail (p30), the
determination to do what is best for
the railway’s customers at Oxford
betokens a new maturity for our
fragmented industry.
Let me end this month with an
apology to the legions of affronted
Brightonians and Brummies that
wrote in after last month’s issue hit
the news stands. Yes, of course it
is Lovers Walk depot on the sunny
south coast, not Lovers Lane as
I had it on this page last month.
As for captioning a photograph
of the CrossCity line in ‘Pan Up’ as
‘Bourneville’, when it is correctly
spelt Bournville
– a chocoholic
like me should
have known
better.
a
James Abbott,
Editor
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David Sexton explains the HLOS process
Not only cars at Cowley
Chiltern wants to reintroduce passenger services
Cinderella joins the ball
The Midland main line is set to be electrified
Fine restoration
Entries in the National Railway Heritage Awards
Riding out the recession
Train miles are on the up despite the economy
Transport powers for Manchester mayor
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Devolution should speed up developments
America looks to the future
The rail scene in the USA
Regulars
Welcome
An introduction from the Editor
Railtalk
Modern Railways’
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Pan Up
Ian Walmsley views Class 56s in Leicester
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Readers comment on topical issues around the railway today
Moving Wheels
Rolling stock news
Trackwatch
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In Business and small ads
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Crossrail update
Tottenham Court Road progress
Alan Williams
A call for Uckfield electrification
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Eurostar welcomes e320s and orders more; HS2 contracting strategy
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Rail Freight
GBRf’s trial stone flow; more Ecofret container flats for Freightliner and
GBRf
Infrastructure News
EGIP wires contract awarded; Taylor Woodrow wins Filton Four
Tracking
Informed Sources
Captain Deltic reviews a swoop on the redundant D78 stock by a
trans-Atlantic buccaneer
Europe View
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